Karl August Limmer, son of Johann Gottlob Limmer & Johanna Magdalena Sophie Reinecker, was born 17 May 1765 in Plauen and died 16 September 1853 in Gera, Germany.
He married Margarethe Claudine Lampe who had been brn in 1776 and died 5 December 1857.
Pastor Limmer studied theology in Leipzig. He had also studied history and served from 1797 to 1809 as a teacher in Brisen, Saucken, Schujenpahlen, Riga, and St. Petersburg.
The Rev. Karl August Limmer served the Lutheran parishes in Poltava from 1809 to 1818 and in Saratov from 1818 to 1820. In 1822, he moved to Gera in Germany where he lived until his death.
- Limmer Karl August (Wolgadeutsche.ru) [Online]
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 156.