Carl Olof Rosenius

Carl Olof Rosenius ( born February 3, 1816 in Nysätra ( province of Västerbotten ), † February 24, 1868 in Stockholm) was a Swedish lay preacher and an initiator neuevangelischen Swedish revivalist movement in 1856 as a Protestant homeland Foundation ( Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen ) organized itself.

Carl Olof Rosenius was the third of seven children of the parish priest Anders Rosenius in Nysätra. After graduating from high school in Härnösand, he began in 1838 to study theology at the University of Uppsala, but he. According to a religious crisis, triggered by the encounter with the English Methodist preacher George Scott, in 1840 broke In the same year he moved to Stockholm and Scott became an assistant.

After Scott was in 1842 forced to leave Sweden, Rosenius became the central figure of an intra-church revivalism, 1856 at the Evangelical Homeland Foundation ( Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen ) organized itself. His most important forum was founded by him in 1842 magazine Pietists ( the Pietist ). He also wrote a number of hymns.

Works

• Considerations for each day of the year. - Flensburg: Kordt, 1910.
• Secrets in the Law and Gospel or will you really saved? - Flensburg. Lutheran Mission Verl, 1957.
• Guide to Peace. Evangelical publishing house, Berlin 1986.
• The book of Romans. A pastoral interpretation. Mission publisher of the Evangelical Lutheran prayer Communities V., 2000.