Bergen, Sigismund Israel
Profession:
Clergy
Biography:
The Rev. Sigismund Israel Bergen, son of Johann Gottlob Bergen & Johanna Dorothea Strehl, was born 11 October 1727 in Freiburg, Germany.
He studied theology at Wittenberg beginning in 1748.
Pastor Bergen served the congregations in Dietel and surronding colonies from 1768-1770. He moved to Orenburg in 1770.
Source(s):
- Erik-Amburger-Datenbank (Online)
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 126.