August Pieper (1857-1946) Papers, 1900-1920.

Collection Number: M-0109 Collection Size: 2 sermon books; 1 folder BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH August Pieper was born on 27 September 1857 in Carwitz, Pomerania, Germany. He was a graduate of Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. His first call brought him to Kewaunee, Wisconsin, where he served

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Concordia Historical Institute. Oral History Collection, 1976-1995.

Collection Number: M-0014 Collection Size: 2.4 linear feet (audio cassettes, video tape, transcripts) RESTRICTIONS Both the transcripts and the cassettes for the J. A. O. Preus interviews conducted in 1981 and 1982 are closed to research until 2006 and 2007, respectively. The 1995 interviews with Carl Muhlenbruch and Alvin Mueller

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Louis P. Lochner (1887-1975) Family Collection, 1524-1975

Collection Number: M-0028 Collection Size: 2.0 linear feet Biographical Sketches Introduction The Louis Lochner Family Collection contains material of several Lochner family members, primarily of Louis, of Louis’s brother Martin, and of their father Johann Friedrich Karl. The majority of the collection was generated and/or collected by Louis Lochner. Johann

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Koehler Family Collection, 1828-1985: The Wauwatosa Theology.

Collection Number: M-0017 Collection Size: 14.2 linear feet Biographical Sketches Christian Philipp Koehler (1828-1895) Rev. Christian Philipp Koehler was born on 8 October 1828 in Neuwied2 on the river Rhine, state of Rhineland Palatinate in Germany. He was the son of a brocade linen weaver in a home industry at

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German Evangelical Lutheran Church (Napa, California) Minutes, 1892-1897.

Collection Number: M-0300 Collection Size: 1 ledger Microfilm #1672a Microfilm The original ledger in the collection was microfilmed in 1986 by the LDS Church. Historical Note The German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Napa, California, was organized on 4 September 1892. It held services in the building of the German Reformed

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Ottomar Fuerbringer (1810-1892) Collection, 1810-1992.

Collection Number: M-0023 Collection Size: 1.7 linear feet Biographical Sketch Ottomar Fuerbringer was born on 30 June 1810 in Gera, Thuringia, Germany, as the son of Wilhelm Fuerbringer and his wife Christine Ernestine Graef. He studied theology in Leipzig from 1828 to 1830, during which time he was strongly influenced by

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Ludwig Fuerbringer

Ludwig Ernst Fuerbringer (1864-1947) Collection, 1864-1964.

Collection Number: M-0027 Collection Size: 8.3 linear feet Biographical Sketch Ludwig Ernst Fuerbringer was born on 29 March 1864 in Frankenmuth, Michigan. He was the youngest of five children born to Ottomar Fuerbringer and his wife Agnes Buenger. He received his preparatory training at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana,

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Walter O. Forster (1913–1997), Manuscripts and Papers (1936–1953)

Collection Number: M-0059 10 boxes, 2 linear feet BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Walter Otto Forster was born on September 14, 1913 in Chesterfield, Missouri. He graduated from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, with a B.D. degree in 1935. Forster earned both his degrees in history from Washington University in Saint Louis—a master’s degree

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana

Collection Number: M-0008 Collection Size: 0.4 linear feet RESTRICTIONS The collection is open for research under the normal access policies of the Institute. HISTORICAL NOTE The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana was incorporated in 1966 as an outgrowth of mission activities of the Lutheran Synodical Conference in West Africa. The

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