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The Proof Texts Of The Catechism With A Practical Commentary
Augustus Lawrence Gräbner, William Herman Theodore Dau, Louis Wessel
Concordia Supply Co., Concordia Theological Seminary, 1920
A First Course In Composition And Grammar: For The Use Of Schools
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A First Course In Composition And Grammar: For The Use Of Schools
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Augustus Lawrence Gräbner
North-Western Pub. House, 1882
Language Arts & Disciplines; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Augustus Lawrence Graebner was a Lutheran theologian and historian.
Background
Augustus Lawrence Graebner was born July 10, 1849, at Frankentrost, Michigan, the son of Johann Heinrich Philipp and Jacobine (Denninger) Grábner. His father (1819 - 1898), born at Burghaig near Kulmbach in Upper Franconian Bavaria, studied under Wilhelm Lohe at Neuendettelsau, and emigrated to the United States in 1847 as pastor of a congregation of twenty-two families who bought government land in Saginaw County, Michigan, and established the poetically named colony of Frankentrost.
Education
Since his father was a member of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Graebner entered Concordia College at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1865 and Concordia Seminary at St. Louis in 1870, but illness kept him from completing both his academic and his theological course. He was already a promising scholar, steeped in Tacitus, Dante, and Luther, and profoundly influenced by his chief preceptor, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther.
Career
In 1872 Graebner became a teacher in the Lutheran High School at St. Louis.
Graebner was professor in Northwestern College at Watertown, Wisconsin, 1875-78, and in the Wisconsin Synod’s newly opened theological seminary in Milwaukee, 1878-87. When he went to Milwaukee he was ordained as assistant pastor of St. Matthew’s Church and also assumed the editorship of the Synod’s Gemeindeblatt.
In 1887 on the death of his father-in-law he succeeded to the professorship of church history in Concordia Seminary, and after the retirement and death of Prof. C. H. R. Lange in 1892 he also lectured in English on dogmatics and kindred subjects.
In January 1897 Graebner issued the first number of the Theological Quarterly, of which he was not so much the editor as the author, for the paucity of contributors compelled him to write the contents of each number practically unassisted.
He published Dr. Martin Luther: Lebensbild des Reformators (1883), an edition of Chemnitz’s Enchiridion (1883), Johann Sebastian Bach (1886), Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America (1893), Herr, Ich Warte auf Dein Heil (1895), Outlines of Doctrinal Theology (1898), and several minor writings.
In 1902 he paid an official visit to the Lutheran churches of New Zealand and Australia, arbitrated their quarrels, and returned home by way of Europe.
In October 1903, immediately after the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination, his health broke, and after a painful illness of fourteen months he died in St. Louis and was buried in Concordia Cemetery.
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Personality
He wrote excellently in both English and German, read avidly in thirteen languages, and seemed to aspire to universal scholarship.
For years he allowed himself but five hours a night for sleep; he was reputed to have read ten thousand books.
Graebner had all the requisites of a historian except fairness. Because of their alleged doctrinal aberrations he treated several venerable figures of the past with undeserved asperity, and he made a few minor errors, but the work as a whole is sound and even brilliant.
Connections
On August 14, 1873, he married Anna, daughter of his teacher, Professor Gottlieb Schaller of Concordia Seminary. His wife and eleven of their twelve children survived him.