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Johannes Seefried
1881–1956
A Lutheran pastor and religious writer, he explored Christian doctrine with a careful, scholarly eye. His best-known work studies baptism through scripture and church history, reflecting the serious theological debates of the early 20th century.
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About the author
Born in 1881 and dying in 1956, Johannes Seefried is remembered today mainly through surviving catalog records and digital editions of his religious writings. The available sources consistently identify him as the author of Die Christliche Taufe, a substantial study of Christian baptism.
His work approaches baptism through both biblical interpretation and historical development, suggesting a writer shaped by pastoral concerns as well as theological scholarship. Some modern library and ebook descriptions characterize him as a Lutheran pastor, and that fits the tone and subject of the work, though detailed biographical information about his life and career is limited in the sources readily available online.
Because so little personal information is easy to confirm, Seefried stands out less as a public literary figure than as a serious church writer whose work preserved a thoughtful contribution to Protestant theology.