Karl Gottlieb Pfander

Karl Gottlieb Pfander (1803–1865) was born in Württemberg in southern Germany . His background lay in the Pietist wing of the Lutheran state church, with its strong tradition of disciplined Christian living heartily enjoyed by evangelical craftsmen, tradesmen, and shopkeepers.

Pfander , was a Basel Mission missionary in Central Asia and Trans-Caucasus , and the Church Missionary Society polemicist to North-Western Provinces —later became Agra Province - present Agra in Uttar Pradesh -- North India . He was renowned for using controversy to win Muslims for Christ and top of all the missionaries of his day as the Christian champion against Islam —used his entire life in the effort to convert Mohammedans . He authored Mizan al-Haqq (The balance of truth), an apologetic, Remarks on the nature of Muhammedanism , and more. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions . After attending the local Lateinshcule, he started missionary training in Germany. Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India . He married first Sophia Reuss, a German, in Moscow, July 11, 1834, who died in childbed in Shusha, May 12, 1835; second, Emily Swinburne, an Englishwoman, in Calcutta, Jan. 19, 1841, who bore him three boys and three girls, and survived him fifteen years. Karl Gottlieb Pfander has been described as the "foremost champion of his age" in the assault upon "the embattled forces of the False Prophet." - In 1825, after completing his course, Pfander was ordained in Lutheran orders and stationed at Shusha, the provincial capital of Karabagh in Russian Armenia. Pfander's writings, which consist of three treatises: first, Mizan-ul-Haqq, or "Balance of Truth"; second, Miftah-ul-Asrar, or "Key of Mysteries"; and third, Tariq-ul-Hyat, or " Way of Salvation." They were originally written in Persian, but have also been published in Urdoo

( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Karl Gottlieb Pfander (1803–1865), spelt also as Carl Gottlieb Pfander or C.G. Pfander , was a Basel Mission missionary in Central Asia and Trans-Caucasus , and the Church Missionary Society polemicist to North-Western Provinces —later became Agra Province - present Agra in Uttar Pradesh -- North India . He was known for converting Muslims to Christianity. He authored Mizan al-Haqq (The balance of truth), an apologetic, Remarks on the nature of Muhammedanism , and more. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions . After attending the local Lateinshcule, he started missionary training in Germany. Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India . He married first Sophia Reuss, a German, in Moscow, July 11, 1834, who died in childbed in Shusha, May 12, 1835; second, Emily Swinburne, an Englishwoman, in Calcutta, Jan. 19, 1841, who bore him three boys and three girls, and survived him fifteen years. (missionary in the Muslim world)" . Karl Gottlieb Pfander has been described as the "foremost champion of his age" in the assault upon "the embattled forces of the False Prophet." - In 1825, after completing his course, Pfander was ordained in Lutheran orders and stationed at Shusha, the provincial capital of Karabagh in Russian Armenia. Pfander's writings, which consist of three treatises: first, Mizan-ul-Haqq, or "Balance of Truth"; second, Miftah-ul-Asrar, or "Key of Mysteries"; and third, Tariq-ul-Hyat, or " Way of Salvation." They were originally written in Persian, but have also been published in Urdoo

Lutheran Christian missionary and scholar Karl Gottlieb Pfander (1803–1865), spelt also as Carl Gottlieb Pfander or C.G. Pfander , was a Lutheran Christian priest , missionary and apologist ; he served as a missionary in Central Asia and Trans-Caucasus under the Basel Mission , and as a polemicist to the North-Western Provinces of India under the Church Missionary Society . He was known for converting Muslims to Christianity. He authored Mizan al-Haqq (The Balance of Truth), an apologetic, Remarks on the nature of Muhammedanism , and more. Another important Lutheran Pietist who graduated from Basel and went out to serve in the Middle East was Karl Gottlieb Pfander. Originally Pfander was sent to Persia under the auspices of the Basel seminary and then later under the CMS in both India and Turkey. His book The Balance of Truth , an apologetic work against Islam, would become the most prominent piece of Protestant missionary literature utilized by Christian missions in the Middle East throughout the twentieth century. Pfander was a prominent Lutheran Pietist from Württemberg. He was ordained under Lutheran orders from the state church in Württemberg and then sent to Shusha, now located in Azerbaijan Anderson, Gerald H. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions . After attending the local Lateinshcule, he started missionary training in Germany. Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India . He married first Sophia Reuss, a German, in Moscow, July 11, 1834, who died in childbed in Shusha, May 12, 1835; second, Emily Swinburne, an Englishwoman, in Calcutta, Jan. 19, 1841, who bore him three boys and three girls, and survived him fifteen years. (missionary in the Muslim world)" . Karl Gottlieb Pfander has been described as the "foremost champion of his age" in the assault upon "the embattled forces of the False Prophet." – In 1825, after completing his course, Pfander was ordained in Lutheran orders and stationed at Shusha, the provincial capital of Karabagh in Russian Armenia. Pfander's writings, which consist of three treatises: first, Mizan-ul-Haqq, or "Balance of Truth"; second, Miftah-ul-Asrar, or "Key of Mysteries"; and third, Tariq-ul-Hyat, or " Way of Salvation." They were originally written in Persian, but have also been published in Urdoo