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This Month in Lutheran History
[Monthly Index]
- August 2
- 1846 - Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, was founded.
- August 4
- 1872 - Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl, one of the Saxon Immigrants and pastor at
Frohna, Missouri from 1839 to 1847, died.
- August 7
- 1409 - The Coucil of Pisa
ended. The Coucil was convened to find a solution to the Great
Schism (1378-1417), caused by the election of two rival popes, one in Avignon, France, the other in Rome.
The Coucil's solution was to depose the two popes as heretics and elect a new pope, Alexander V. The schism continued,
and Alexander dissolved the council.
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- August 11
- 1519 - John Tetzel, a Dominican monk whose sale of pardon for sin
(indulgences) compelled an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther to post his Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg,
setting off the Protestant Reformation.
- August 13
- 1777 - Martin Stephan was born. Stephan led the Saxon Immigration
to America before being ousted by his followers.
- August 14
- 1919 - The Lutheran Deaconess Association was organized at
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- August 15
- 1456 - The date believed by many to be the day Johann Guttenberg
completed the Mazarin Bible, the first book printed with movable type.
- August 18
- 1520 - Martin Luther published "An Open Letter to the Christian
Nobility", laying the groundwork for the Reformation.
- August 19
- 1849 - Gotthold Heinrich Loeber died. Loeber was a pastor and
teacher in Altenberg before becoming one of the organizering members of the Missouri Synod.
- August 24
- 1854 - The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States was
organized. In 1930 the synod merged with the Ohio Synod and the Buffalo Synod to form the American Lutheran Church.
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- August 25
- 325 - The First Council of Nicea ended. Convened in May or June
by Constantine the Great, the Coucil rejected Arianism (the heresy of denying the deity of Christ) and formulated the basis
of today's Nicene Creed
- August 26
- 1930 - Frederick William Herzberger died. Herzberger
was the first city missionary of the Missouri Synod, serving in St. Louis, Missouri.
- August 29
- 1811 - Wilhelm Georg Hattstädt was born. Hattstädt
was one on the Loehe men and was an advisory member of the Missouri Synod during its organizational years.
- August 30
- 1840 - Edmund Bohm, New York City school teacher and director
of what would become Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, was born.
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