Background
Fuerbringer, Ludwig Ernest was born on March 29, 1864 in Frankenmuth, Michigan, United States. Son of Ottomar and Agnes E. (Buenger) Fuerbringer.
Fuerbringer, Ludwig Ernest was born on March 29, 1864 in Frankenmuth, Michigan, United States. Son of Ottomar and Agnes E. (Buenger) Fuerbringer.
Graduated from Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1882. Graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, 1885. Doctor of Divinity, Concordia College, Adelaide, Australia.
Doctor of Letters, Valparaiso (Indiana) University.
Ordained to the ministry of Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1885. Pastor of Frankenmuth, Michigan, 1885-1893. Professor Biblical introduction, exegesis and liturgics.
Concordia Theological Seminary since 1893, president, 1931-1943. President of Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference N.A., 1927-1944.
Editor: Populaere Symbolik (by Guenther), 1898, and 1913. Briefe von C. F. W. Walther, Volume 1, 1915, Volume 2, 1916. Men and Missions (10 vols.), 1924-1933.The Book of Job 1927. Die Evangelischen Perikopen des Kirchenjahres, 1932. Persons and Events, 1947.The External Why, 1947. Co-editor of Concordia Cyclopedia, 1927. General editor: The Thomasius Gospel Selections, 1937.Eighty Eventful Years, 1944. Editor: Der Lutheraner, 1896-1912, and since 1917.
Married Anna Zucker, November 5, 1896. Children: Agnes Maria, Clara Charlotte, Alfred Ottomar, Irmgard Theodora, Ottomar Ernest.