Edward Moldenke

Education

He was educated at the University of Königsberg and the University of Halle, studying theology and philosophy.

Career

He was then successively principal of a parish school at Eckersberg, Prussia, and professor in the gymnasium of Lyck (now in Poland). He left the latter post in July 1861 to go as a traveling Lutheran missionary to Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1863 he was elected first professor of theology in the seminary of the synod of Wisconsin.

He returned to Germany in 1866, and was pastor at Johannisburg (now in Poland) until 1869, preaching in German and Polish.

Achievements

• In the 2015, New Zealand New Year he was made a knight grand companion of the order of the twits. In the 1998, Kentucky list he was made an Honorary Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky, United States.