Blumhardt, Christian Gottlieb

BLUMHARDT, CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB: German Protestant; b. in Stuttgart Apr. 29, 1779; d. in Basel Dec. 19, 1838. He studied at Tübingen; in 1803 became secretary of the Deutsche Christentumsgesellschaft in Basel; minister at Bürg, Württemberg, 1807; returned in 1816 to Basel as director of the missionary school. From 1816 he edited the Missionsmagazin, and from 1828 also the Heidenbote; he published Versuch einer allgemienen Missionsgeschichte der Kirche Christi (5 vols., Basel, 1828–37), reaching down to the time of the Reformation.