25 October 1811 A.D. Carl Ferdinand Walther Born—Commanding 19th Century Lutheran Theologian

25 October 1811 A.D.  Carl Ferdinand Walther Born—Commanding 19^th Century Lutheran Theologian

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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."