GOATS. See Pastoral Life, Hebrew.

GOBAT, go''ba', SAMUEL: Second Anglican- German bishop in Jerusalem; b. at Crémine (23 m. s.s.w. of Basel), Switzerland, Jan. 26, 1799 ; d. at Jerusalem May 11, 1879 . Desiring to become a missionary, he went to the Missionshaus at Basel (1821), where he received his theological training, after which he studied in Paris. After having been ordained in the state church of Baden, he was sent to England to seek employment from the Church Missionary Society. He was destined for Abyssinia, but was compelled to wait three years in Egypt before he was admitted. In 1829, with his companion Christian Kugler , he entered the country. King Saba Gadis received them with kindness, and a time of zealous and successful work followed. After three years Saba Gadis was killed in war and Gobat had to flee from the country. When peace was restored he went back, but sickness of himself and wife made a return to Europe necessary.

In 1846 King Frederick William IV. of Prussia appointed him to the bishopric of Jerusalem (see Jerusalem, Anglican-german Bishopric In). Despite the peculiar and difficult conditions, and notwithstanding the opposition of the Oriental bishops and the mistrust of many Anglicans, Gobat labored faithfully until his death. His Journal of a Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia was published in London, 1834.

(Theodor Schäfer.)

Bibliography: Mme. L. Roehrich, Samuel Gobat . . . évêque anglican de Jerusalem, Paris, 1880, Germ. transl., Basel, 1884; Eng. transl. (from the Germ.) with preface by the Earl of Shaftesbury, London, 1884; T. Schoelly, S. Gobat, Evangelischer Bischof in Jerusalem, Basel, 1900.

GOBELINUS PERSONA. See Persona.