Karl August Busch

Born in Frankfurt am Main on May 27, 1886, Karl August Busch became a German Protestant pastor, theologian, and author. After studying theology and earning a doctorate, he was ordained in 1910. From 1914 onward, his working life was closely tied to Dresden, where he served at Martin Luther Church and later rose to the post of archdeacon.

Alongside his ministry, he wrote a wide range of books. His published works include religious and educational titles such as Das Gotterleben, Psalm und Kirchenlied für lebendige Religions- und Konfirmandenstunden, Das Lukasevangelium, and Biblische Geschichten des Alten und Neuen Testaments. He also wrote Quer durch Amerika: Ein Reisetagebuch, a travel diary that remains the easiest of his books to find today, as well as the anthology Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe.

Busch died in Pirna on December 22, 1952. Sources about his life also note that he worked with the institute founded in 1939 to remove what it called Jewish influence from German church life, a detail that places part of his career within a troubling chapter of church history in Nazi Germany.