Johann Baptist Ambrosi

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Johann Baptist Ambrosi (born April 5, 1741 in Selnitz , Kingdom of Hungary , today Slovakia, † February 22, 1796 in Berlin ) was a Lutheran theologian and pastor.

Ambrosi studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle , where Gotthilf August Francke supported him. Here he was also involved as a proofreader on the work for a Bohemian Bible, which was printed at the expense of the Berlin Bohemian Community . From 1770 he was the first preacher and inspector in Havelberg . On March 22, 1773 he was appointed preacher at the Gertraudenkirche in Berlin; at the same time he was consistorial councilor and inspector of the Berlin and Rixdorf Bohemian Lutheran communities.

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  1. See on this Josef Bohumil Soucek: The Czech Bible Translations. In: The Bible in the World. Yearbook of the Association of Evangelical Bible Societies in Germany 6 (1963), pp. 90-109.