Heinrich Bassermann
Heinrich Gustav Bassermann was a German Lutheran theologian born in Frankfurt am Main.
From 1868 to 1873 he was a student at the universities of Jena, Zurich and Heidelberg. At Jena he was a pupil of Karl August Hase, and in Heidelberg he studied under Heinrich Julius Holtzmann. During this time period he also served with a dragoon unit in the Franco-Prussian War.
In 1873–76 he was an assistant pastor in Arolsen, and later worked as a lecturer of New Testament exegesis at the University of Jena. Soon afterwards he was appointed an associate professor of practical theology at Heidelberg, where in 1880 he became a full professor and a university preacher.
Bassermann was co-founder of the Allgemeinen evangelisch-protestantischen Missionsvereins, and from 1879 was editor of the "Zeitschrift für praktische Theologie" in collaboration with Rudolf Ehlers. He died in Samaden, Switzerland on 30 August 1909.