John Walter Bachman

Background

John Bachman was born on May 30, 1916, in Youngstown, Ohio. He was the son of Walter Herbert and Eda Bachman.

Education

John Bachman earned his undergraduate degree from Capital University in 1937. Also, he graduated from the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (now Trinity Lutheran Seminary at Capital University) in 1940.

Career

After education, John Bachman was a speech instructor from 1939 to 1940 at Capital University. Graduating from the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary, John Bachman has ordained a minister the next year and served at the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Warren, Ohio, during the early 1940s. In 1944 he returned to education as a broadcasting instructor at Capital University, followed by a position as a professor of radio and chair of his department at Baylor University. In the early 1950s, Bachman established the Radio Voice of the Gospel in Ethiopia, a radio station that survived until 1974, when Emperor Haile Selassie I was overthrown by communists. By then, however, Bachman was already back in the United States. From 1956 to 1964, he was a professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and in 1964 he was hired as the president of Wartburg College in Iowa. John Bachman was there for ten years before moving to Minneapolis to direct the Office of Communication and Mission Support of the American Lutheran Church, from which he retired in 1980.

Besides, John Bachman was a writer. He was the author of several books about communications and the church, including The Church in the World of Radio-Television, Faith that Makes a Difference, Media: Wasteland or Wonderland, and Together in Hope: Fifty Years of Lutheran World Relief.

Achievements

• John Bachman was well known as a writer, minister, and educator. He was the author of several books about communications and the church. As an educator, Bachman taught for about twenty years, and also, he was the president of Wartburg College in Iowa. Besides, in the early 1950s, John Bachman founded the Radio Voice of the Gospel in Ethiopia.

Works

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  • The Church in the World of Radio-television 1960
  • Faith That Makes a Difference 1983
  • Media, Wasteland or Wonderland 1985
  • Together in Hope 1995

Views

John Bachman started to write books about communications and the church because he was a strong believer in the importance of communicating the church's message to an increasingly sophisticated audience.

Membership

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  John Bachman was a chairman of the National Council Churches in 1964-1967.

  National Council Churches , United States

  1953 - 1984

Connections

John Bachman's wife was Elsie Schiefer. They had two children, John and Charles Bachman.

Father:

Walter HerbertBachman

Mother:

Eda Bachman

Eda Bachman's maiden name was Fisher.

Son:

John Frederick Bachman

Son:

Charles Walter Bachman