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John was born on January 6, 1835 at Bramsche, Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Herman Rudolph and Anna Maria (Biest) Stuckenberg. His name before it was anglicized was Johann Heinrich Willbrand Stuckenberg. With his mother, three sisters, and one brother, he came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1839 to join his father and eldest sister, who had emigrated two years before.
Stuckenberg received most of his early schooling in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his college and theological education at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1857 and the theological degree in 1858. He was pastor of a Lutheran congregation in Davenport, Iowa, for a year and then studied in the University of Halle, Germany, from 1859 to 1861.
He again went to Germany, where he studied from 1865 to 1867 in the universities of Gottingen, Tobingen, and Berlin.
Stuckenberg was chaplain in the 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers from September 1862 to October 1863, served another congregation of the General Synod from 1863 to 1865 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Pastorates in Indianapolis, Indiana, and in Pittsburgh occupied him from 1867 to 1873, when he was made professor of exegesis in Wittenberg College. In 1880, for the third time, he went to Germany, this time to stay for fourteen years as pastor of the American Church in Berlin.
Many of his articles are to be found in the Evangelical Quarterly Review (see particularly, January 1865, April 1867, July 1869), and the Quarterly Review of The Evangelical Lutheran Church (see January 1871, July 1876, April 1880, July 1886). His weightiest contributions appeared in a series of 200 articles in the Homiletic Review from 1884 to 1902, and for many years was in charge of its department of Christian sociology.
Among American writers, Stuckenberg's work in sociology places him beside Lester F. Ward as a pioneer in that field, although his treatment was largely philosophic while Ward was more concerned with natural scientific treatment. The problem of the state particularly attracted Stuckenberg.
He made a particular study of international law, and was an ardent collector of maps, one of which was reproduced in 1895 in a New York paper as containing the key to the Venezuela territorial dispute. He was a champion of labor and in his later years lectured before many labor groups throughout the country.
He died in London, where he had gone to gather material for a new book.
John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg was almost as well known in British circles as in American, his books receiving many elaborate and sympathetic reviews in leading English literary periodicals. He possessed a large library on theology, sociology, economics, political science, and philosophy, now in the library of Gettysburg College. His most important books are: Ninety-five Theses (1868); History of the Augsburg Confession (1869); Christian Sociology (1880); The Life of Immanuel Kant (1882), the first biography of Kant in English. His magnum opus was Sociology, The Science of Human Society (2 vols. , 1903).
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He was a member of the Philosophical Society of Berlin.
Stuckenberg was a straight, tall, broad-shouldered man of commanding presence, quick of movement, fluent in speech, thoroughly at ease before his audiences.
He had a wife, Mary Gingrich, of Erie, Pennsylvania, to whom he was married on October 27, 1869. She was a leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union movement.
