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This Month in Lutheran History
[Monthly Index]
- March 2
- 1840 - H.A. Allwardt, who was Walther's opponent in the
Predestination Controversy,
left the LCMS in 1881, and served as president of Lutheran Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, was born.
- 1850 - Reinhold Pieper, president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, was born.
- 1942 - The Lutheran Academy for Scholarship was organized.
- March 4
- 1894 - August Reinke delivered the first LCMS sermon to the deaf.
- March 5
- 1940 - Richard Theodore Kretzschmar, pastor of Emmaus, St. Louis,
and president of the Western District, died.
- March 6
- 1892 - Carl L. Geyer, who taught school at Trinity, St.
Louis, and wrote a German primer used widely in Lutheran schools, died.
- March 8
- 1921 - Richard D. Biedermann, president of Concordia
Theological Seminary, Springfield, and secretary of the LCMS, died.
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- March 11
- 1884 - Louis J. Sieck, pastor of Zion, St. Louis, and
president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (1943-1952), was born.
- March 12
- 1815 - Georg Schieferdecker was born. Schieferdecker was
divested of his pastorate in Altenberg, Missouri and his presidency of the Western District for his chiliasm.
He later returned to the Synod.
- 1830 - Heinrich Wunder, pastor at St. Paul's, Chicago,
for sixty-two years, was born.
- March 13
- 1943 - William C. Kohn, president of Concordia
Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois (1913-1939), died.
- March 16
- 1812 - Carl L. Geyer was born.
- March 18
- 1897 - C.H. Loeber, who studied at the log cabin seminary
before becoming pastor in Frohna, Missouri, and director of Concordia College, Milwaukee, died.
- March 19
- 1884 -
John W. Behnken, president of the LCMS (1935-1962), was born.
- March 20
- 1856 - F. Berg, the first resident missionary and pastor
of the Negro Lutheran Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, was born.
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- March 21
- 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach was born.
- March 22
- 1884 - Wilhelm Georg Hattstaedt, who was sent to America
by Wilhelm Loehe in 1844, founded congregations in southern Michigan, and was a charter member of the LCMS, died.
- March 29
- 1943 - William Henry Behrens, pioneer pastor in Utah and
professor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, died.
- 1864 - Ludwig Fuerbringer, pastor at Frankenmuth,
Michigan, professor at (1893-1943) and president of (1931-1943) Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, was born.
- March 31
- 1869 - Martin Sommer, pastor at Grace, St. Louis, president
of the English District, editor of the Lutheran Witness (1914-1949), and professor at Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis (1920-1946), was born.
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