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This Month in Lutheran History
[Monthly Index]
- July 6
- 1415 - John Hus, a Bohemian (Czech) reformer
condemned for heresy at the Council of Constance, was burned at the stake.
- July 7
- 1819 - Johann H. P. Graebner, who under
Wilhelm Loehe's direction came to America and founded the mission at Frankentrost,
Michigan, was born.
- July 10
- 1849 - August L. Graebner, professor in
Wisconsin and later the Missouri Synod, whose writings include a history of American
Lutheranism and doctrinal outlines, was born.
- July 12
- 1892 - Ottomar Fuerbringer, co-founder
of Concordia College, Perry County, Missouri, died. Fuerbringer helped draw up the LCMS
constitution in 1846 and 1847.
- July 17
- 1431 - The Council of Ephesus adjourned.
It was the third of seven ecumenical councils of the Church, chiefly noted for its
condemnation of Nestorianism and Pelagianism.
- 1505 - Twenty-one year-old Martin Luther
entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt, Germany.
- July 20
- 1860 - Adolf W. Meyer, president of St.
John's College, Winfield, Kansas, from 1895 to 1927, was born.
- July 24
- 1825 - F.J. Biltz, one of the first students
at Concordia College, Perry County, Missouri, and later founder of St. Paul's College,
Concordia, Missouri, was born.
- 1994 - Advent's first Vacation Bible School begins; held between 6:00 and 8:00
in the evening
- July 30
- 1874 - John H.C. Fritz, professor of church
history and pastoral theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, from 1920 to 1953 and author of
Pastoral Theology, was born.
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