Carl Olof Rosenius
Carl Olof Rosenius (born February 3, 1816 in Nysätra ( Västerbotten province ), † February 24, 1868 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish lay preacher and initiator of a new Evangelical Swedish revival movement , which was organized in 1856 as the Evangelical Fatherland Foundation ( Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen ).
Carl Olof Rosenius was born as the third of seven children of pastor Anders Rosenius in Nysätra. After completing high school in Härnösand , he began studying theology at Uppsala University in 1838 , which he broke off in 1840 after a religious crisis triggered by his encounter with the English Methodist preacher George Scott . In the same year he moved to Stockholm and became Scott's helper.
After Scott was forced to leave Sweden in 1842, Rosenius became the central figure of an inner-church revival movement , which was organized in 1856 in the Evangelical Fatherland Foundation (Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen) . Rosenius has since preached in the Betlehemskyrkan in Stockholm, which was supported by the Fosterlandsstiftelsen; in addition, he made numerous preaching trips throughout the country. His most important forum was the journal Pietisten (the Pietist) , which he founded in 1842 .
Rosenius also wrote a number of hymns. Four of them are still in the current Swedish hymn book from 1986.
From 1843 until his death, Rosenius was with Agatha geb. Lindberg married. Their daughter Elisabeth Nyström (1848–1889) was a well-known painter. The ornithologist Paul Rosenius was his nephew.
Fonts (selection)
- Reflections for every day of the year . - Flensburg: Kordt, 1910.
- Secrets in the law and gospel or will you really be saved? - Flensburg: Lutheran Mission Publishers, 1957.
- Signpost to peace . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1986.
- The letter to the Romans. A pastoral interpretation. Missionsverlag of the Evangelical Lutheran Prayer Communities e. V., 2000.
literature
- Sven Lodin: CO Rosenius - Stockholm: Evangel. Forsterlandsstiftelsen's Bokförlaget, 1956.
- Sven Lodin: Carl Olof Rosenius. The Swedish revival preacher , ed. v. Jochen Eber, Groß Oesingen: Harms, 2009.
- Magister Carl Olof Rosenius . A father of the revival movement in Sweden. A picture of life, ed. v. Mission publisher of the Ev.-Luth. Prayer communities, Bielefeld 1992.
- J. Jürgen Seidel : Carl Olof Rosenius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 672-673.
- Allan Hofgren: Carl Olof Rosenius . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon vol. 30, 2000, p. 540 ff online resource .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Olof Rosenius in the catalog of the German National Library
- German-language information about Rosenius http://www.rosenius.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenius, Carl Olof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish lay preacher and initiator of a new Evangelical, free church revival movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nysätra (Province of Västerbotten ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1868 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |