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Gustav Adolph Lammers (26 May 1802) was a Norwegian priest, politician and painter.

Early life and education
Lammers was born in Copenhagen to Ernst Anton Henrik Lammers who was Danish and Seriane Magdalena née Hagen who was Norwegian. His father was an officer who eventually became general major. The family environment was rationalist. They lived in Trondheim from 1811 to 1818 when they moved to Christiania. Gustav Adolph attended Christiania Cathedral School which he finished with examen artium in 1821. He became Cand.theol. at the University of Oslo in 1825 and got an exam in practical theology in 1827 He was influcenced by Niels Johannes Holm who was priest in the herrnheutic Unity of the Brethren (Norwegian:Brødremenigheden. Literally: The Brethren congregation) in Christiania.

Career 1828–1948;
After fihishing his theological studies, Lammers got a position as hospital priest in Trondheim in 1828 and worked there for eight years. He had a close relationship to Bishop of Nidaros Peter Olivarius Bugge. Both of them were influence by pietistic and herrnhutic thinking.

In 1834, Lammers published a collection of hymns, "Psalme–skat". The hymns which came from various Danish hymnals were mostly in the Lutheran orthodoxy and pietistic tradition. Lammers also translated a book on German church history which was sympathetic towards the Unity of the Brethren, in particular their missionary work.

Lammers became parish priest in Bamble in Telemark in 1835. The parish's medieval St. Olav's Church had become too small and Lammers became the architect of a new, bigger wooden church which was consecrated in 1845. Lammers also painted two alterpieces for the church. Stones from St. Olav's Church was used as foundation for the new Bamble church and the old church ended up as a ruin.

In 1846, Lammers travelled to Europe and returned to Bamble in June 1847. He made several sketches from Germany and Italy. He stayed for a longer time in Rome.

Career 1849–
In 1949, Lammers started a new position as parish priest in Skien, Telemark.

Mission Covenant Church of Norway

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Mission Covenant Church of Norway