Background
Landis, Josiah Pennabecker was born on October 27, 1843 in Brickerville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph and Caroline (Weiler) Landis.
Landis, Josiah Pennabecker was born on October 27, 1843 in Brickerville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph and Caroline (Weiler) Landis.
Served in Union Army, 1862-1865. Bachelor of Arts, Otterbein University, 1869, Master of Arts, 1872. Student Western Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1868-1869, Lane Theological Seminary, Ohio, 1869-1871, University of Berlin, 1886.
Doctor of Philisophy, University of Wooster, 1889.
Doctor of Divinity, Otterbein, 1882.
Ordained U.B. ministry, 1871. Pastor Dayton, O., 1871-1874, Miltonville, O., 1874-1877, Germantown, O., 1877-1880. Professor Hebrew exegesis and Old Testament theology, 1880-1909, dean, 1907-1909, president, May 1909-1921 (resigned the presidency but continues in chair of Old Testament theology and exegesis), Bonebrake Theological (formerly Union Biblical) Seminary, Dayton, O. President Ohio South.S. Union, 1884-1886, Young People's Christian Union, 1890-1902.
Assistant editor, 1878-1885, and elected editor South.S. Literature of U.B. Church, 1885, but soon resigned to continue in Seminary Took part in Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893, and Methodist Ecumenical Conference, Washington.
Secretary Tri-Church Council, Congressional, U.B. and Member of Parliament churches, Chicago, 1907. Secretary U.B. Board of Education, 1909-1913.
Member Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Member Archæol. Congress, Beirut, Syria, and Jerusalem, 1926.
Member League to Enforce Peace.
Married Addie Belle Kumler, June 6, 1872.