Emil Gustav Lisco (January 13, 1819 – February 8, 1887) was a German

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pastor. Lisco was born in

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, 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

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, against which he argued in an 1868 letter and in an 1872 lecture.

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