Lloyd C. Douglas

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Lloyd Cassel Douglas (born August 27, 1877 in Columbia City , Whitley County , † February 13, 1951 ; born Doya C. Douglas ) was an American pastor and author. He was one of the most famous American authors of his time, although he did not publish his first novel until he was 50. He is the author of the novel for the eponymous Hollywood monumental film Das Gewand .

Life

Douglas was born in Columbia City, Indiana, and grew up in Monroeville, Indiana , Wilmot, Indiana, and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was the pastor of Hopeful Lutheran Church. After the 1910 census, Douglas was a Lutheran pastor. He was married to Bosie L. Douglas. Besides Douglas, they had two other children.

After graduating from Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University) in Springfield, Ohio in 1903 , he worked for the Lutheran Church. He initially served as a pastor in North Manchester, Indiana, Lancaster, Ohio and Washington, DC From 1911 to 1915 he was director of the theological faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the next six years he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Ann Arbor , Michigan. From there he moved to Akron, Ohio, where he held this post from 1920 to 1926, then to Los Angeles, California, and finally he worked at St. James United Church in Montreal , Quebec, from whose pulpit he said goodbye to write.

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His work has a moral, didactic and religious orientation. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an unexpected sensational success. Critics saw Douglas as the successor to great religious novels of earlier times, such as B. Ben Hur and Quo Vadis . The novel was filmed in 1935 as the Magnificent Obsession . In 1954 a remake was released with The Wonderful Power .

Douglas then wrote the novels Forgive Us Our Trespasses; Precious Jeopardy; Green light; White banners; Disputed Passage; Invitation To Live; Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal; The Robe and The Big Fisherman. The Robe (in German: The Robe of the Redeemer) sold more than two million copies (not counting the new editions). Douglas sold the film rights. The film The Robe with Richard Burton was not released until 1953 after Douglas died. "The Big Fisherman" was also made into a film in 1959 and shows Howard Keel in one of his few film roles in which he does not sing, as Petrus. His last book was the autobiography "Time To Remember" which describes his life from childhood to training for his pastoral office.

He died before he could write the planned second volume. This task was brought to an end by the book "The Shape of Sunday" by his daughters Virginia Douglas Dawson and Betty Douglas Wilson. Douglas was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California .

Works (selection)

  • The Robe (1942)
  • Magnificent Obsession (1929)
  • The Big Fisherman (1949)
  • Forgive us our Trespasses
  • White banners
  • Green Light (1935)
  • Disputed Passage (1939)

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lloyd C. Douglas in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400561.txt
  3. ↑ http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400641.txt
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Lloyd C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas, Lloyd Cassel (full name); Douglas, Doya C. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American priest and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia City , Whitley County
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1951