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John Gmeiner was born on 5 December 1847, in Bärnau, Bavaria. He was the son of Sebastian and Caroline (Fritsch) Gmeiner who emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849.
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John Gmeiner was born on 5 December 1847, in Bärnau, Bavaria. He was the son of Sebastian and Caroline (Fritsch) Gmeiner who emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849.
At the age of twelve years, John entered the preparatory department of St. Francis de Sales Seminary from which he advanced to the major seminary.
Ordained by Bishop John Henni on June 10, 1870, Gmeiner was assigned to St. Boniface’s Church, Germantown, Wisconsin. The next few years (1873 - 83) found him teaching at the preparatory seminary or serving German congregations at Holy Trinity in Milwaukee, at the Cathedral, at Cassville, Platteville, Oshkosh, and Waukesha.
In addition, he edited the Columbia (1873 - 76), through which he familiarized himself with the German-American press and the status of Germans in the Middle West.
In 1883, he became a professor in St. Francis de Sales Seminary from which he was later called by Archbishop Ireland to a similar position in the Theological Seminary of St. Thomas at St. Paul, Minnesota.
After 1889, he served for short terms in minor parishes at Mendota, St. Paul, South St. Paul, and Buffalo, Minnesota, until in 1902, he was sent to a German parish in Springfield, Minnesota.
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Gmeiner delivered an address on “Primitive and Prospective Religious Union of the Human Family” at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago which aroused the interest of Archbishops Gibbons, Ireland, and Feehan.
Father Gmeiner took a strong stand on the German question declaring in opposition to Cahenslyism.
Unburdened with views brought from Germany, he urged the Germans to be content and to remember that they were fairly, if not favorably, treated in the Catholic Church, which, however, could not be expected to serve as a literary club to foster peculiar linguistic tastes.
In The Church and Foreignism (1891), he expressed a stout Americanism which caused many Germans to criticize his “Americanisirungs Evangelium, ” but which merited Archbishop Ireland’s approval.
Quotations: “I do not believe in any possibility of perpetuating here on American soil for many generations to come, the German language, German customs, and German patriotism. ”
Father Gmeiner was a conscientious student, an authority upon German emigrants and the language question, and an able preacher, especially in his native tongue.