Juliusz Bursche (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Juliusz Bursche (September 19, 1862, Kalisz - February 20, 1942 (estimated)) was a bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. A vocal opponent of Nazi Germany, after the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was arrested by the Germans, tortured, and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died.Bursche was born as the first child to Ernst Wilhelm Bursche, Vicar of the Lutheran church at Kalisz and his wife Mathilda, born M ller. The family went to Zgierz near d, where his father became Protestant pastor. Bursche studied Lutheran divinity at the University of Tartu and became a member of the "Konwent Polonia," where he was influenced by the ideas of Leopold Otto, a Lutheran pastor at Warsaw. Otto wanted to overcome the stereotype of Catholic = Polish and Lutheran = German.