About Emil Gustav Lisco
Lived 1819 – 1887 (aged 68). Emil Gustav Lisco was a German preacher and protestant theologian.
Emil Gustav Lisco (January 13, 1819 – February 8, 1887) was a German Protestant Christian pastor.
Lisco was born in Berlin, the son of Friedrich Gustav Lisco, a pastor and theologian. From 1845 Emil became a pastor as well, also in Berlin. Among his more notable public positions was strident opposition to Copernican heliocentrism, against which he argued in an 1868 letter and in an 1872 lecture.
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German preacher (1819–1887)
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Emil Gustav Lisco was born on 13 January 1819 in Berlin.
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Emil Gustav Lisco died on 8 February 1887 in Berlin.
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Emil Gustav Lisco was a preacher and protestant theologian.
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Emil Gustav Lisco was German.
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