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October 1811 A.D. Carl
Ferdinand Walther Born—Commanding 19th Century Lutheran Theologian
Carl Ferdinand Walther (1811 to
1887)
Lutheran
A commanding 19th-century Lutheran.
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was born at
Langenshursdorf, Saxony, Germany. After completing his theological studies at
the University of Leipzig, he encountered opposition to his strongly
conservative Lutheran position and emigrated to the United States in 1839 with
750 other Lutherans, establishing a Lutheran colony in Missouri. Walther became
pastor of Trinity Congregation in St. Louis (1841) and became a professor and
eventually president of Concordia Seminary which he helped found. He was also
president of a new church body which was organized in 1847, largely under his
direction, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, with a membership comprising one
third of all Lutherans in North and South America. A prolific writer, Walther
was called the "most commanding figure in the Lutheran church of America
during the 19th century."
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