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This Month in Lutheran History
[Monthly Index]
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- September 1
- 1844 -
C.F.W. Walther published the first issue of Der Lutheraner,
calling scattered Lutherans to unite around the Scripture and Confessions.
- September 2
- 1902 - The Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church (Slovensk-evanjelická augsburgského vyznania celocirkev v Spojenych
státoch americkych) began its organizational meetings.
- September 4
- 1838 - Seven-hundred and seven Saxons met in Dresden to plan the emigration to America.
- September 6
- 1918 - The National Lutheran Council was organized.
- September 7
- 1832 - Carl Johann Otto Hanser was born. Hanser served as president of Concordia College, Ft. Wayne, Indiana
(1872-1879), and as pastor of Trinity, St. Louis, Missouri (1879-1906).
- September 9
- 1863 - Frederick Brand, author of Foreign Missions in China, was born.
- 1883 - The new seminary building in St. Louis was dedicated.
- 1897 - Max Heinrich Zschiegner, president of Concordia Seminary, Hankow, China (1929-1940), was born.
- September 12
- 1808 - Theodore Julius Brohm was born. Brohm was Martin Stephan's personal secretary, pastor of Holy Cross, St. Louis,
and a co-founder of Concordia College, Altenberg, Missouri.
- September 13
- 1942 - Otto Boecler died. Boecler was a professor at both St. Louis and Springfield seminaries.
- September 14
- 1860 - Karl G.T. Naether was born. Naether, with F.E. Mohn, was the first Missouri Synod missionary in India, establishing
a mission at Krishnagiri. He died of bubonic plague in 1904.
- September 24
- 1881 - Theodore Brohm died.
- September 26
- 1932 - August G. Brauer died. Brauer was the first secretary of the Lutheran Laymen's League and served on the Board of
Control of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (1893-1932).
- September 27
- 1817 - Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia, created the Prussian Union, ordering the joint communion of the Lutheran
Church and the Reformed Church, on the 300th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
- September 29
- 1841 - August Reinke, who began the Missouri Synod's work with the deaf, was born.
- September 30
- 1838 - The nine members of the Muldenthal Pastoral Conference denounced the proposed Saxon Immigration in the
newspaper Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung.
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