# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-tersteegen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:49:06.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-tersteegen"
name: "Gerhard Tersteegen"
slug: "gerhard-tersteegen"
description: "Gerhard Tersteegen was a German Reformed lay preacher, spiritual writer, mystic, translator, and hymnist associated with Pietism on the Lower Rhine. A weaver by trade, he became one of the most important representatives of Reformed mystical Pietism and is remembered for his hymns, sermons, devotional writings, correspondence, and translations of earlier Christian mystical authors."
tagline: "German theologian and hymn writer"
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country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1697-11-25"
deathDate: "1769-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump