# Charles Taze Russell

> He founded the Bible Student movement in Pittsburgh and wrote 50,000 pages of religious commentary that seeded what would become Jehovah's Witnesses — though three-quarters of his followers left after his death in a schism that splintered the movement into rival factions.

*Founder of the Bible Student movement (1852–1916)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1852-02-16
- **Died:** 1916-10-31
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Charles Taze Russell was born February 16, 1852, and became an Adventist minister in Pittsburgh. In July 1879 he launched Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, a monthly magazine, then co-founded and eventually led the Watch Tower Tract Society starting in 1881. Between 1886 and 1904 he published his six-volume Millennial Dawn series — later retitled Studies in the Scriptures — which sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide during his lifetime. After Russell died on October 31, 1916, his successor Joseph Rutherford's leadership triggered a crisis: by 1931, as many as three-quarters of the 50,000 Bible Students had left, fracturing into separate groups. The remnant that stayed took the name Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931; the Watch Tower Society stopped printing Russell's work in 1927.

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