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Gager (other)
Gager may refer to: * Gager (municipality), in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany * C. Stuart Gager (1873–1943), American botanist *John Gager John Goodrich Gager Jr. (born 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American scholar of Christianity. He retired from his position as William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Princeton University in the spring of 2006. Biography The Gager f ... (born 1937), American academic * William Gager (1555–1622), English jurist {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gager (municipality)
Gager is a village and a former municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since January 2018, it is part of the new municipality Mönchgut. Besides Gager, the municipality also included the villages Groß Zicker and Groß Zicker Ausbau. History The place was part of the Principality of Rugen to 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, Rügen and thus also Gager became part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815 the town became part of the Prussian Province of Pomerania. Since 1818 Gager belonged to the ''Kreis'' or district Rügen. Only in the years 1952 to 1955 it was part of Kreis Putbus. Following the Division of Germany and establishment of the German Democratic Republic, a summer camp was operated in Groß Zicker. Following the German reunification in 1990, it became part of the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The district Rügen was merged into the new district Vorpommern-Rügen in 2011. In 1980, the movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gager
John Goodrich Gager Jr. (born 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American scholar of Christianity. He retired from his position as William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Princeton University in the spring of 2006. Biography The Gager family's roots in New England reach back to the arrival of John Winthrop and the "Winthrop Fleet" at what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Gager joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1968 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religion, having previously taught at Haverford College. After studying at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Gager went on to receive his B.A. and M. Div. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Gager undertook additional studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Tübingen in Germany. During his studies in Yale, Gager was a Freedom Rider, and was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in June 1961. Gager's scholarly concern is with the religions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |