Background
Lenker, John Nicholas was born on November 28, 1858 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Bobb and Mary Ann (Gearheart) Lenker.
Lenker, John Nicholas was born on November 28, 1858 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Bobb and Mary Ann (Gearheart) Lenker.
A. B., Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., 1879, Master of Arts, 1880. Graduate Hamma Division School (Wittenberg), 1881, Doctor of Divinity, 1893. Studied University of Leipzig, Germany, 1882.
Lutherin Walsted. Ordained Evangelical Lutheran ministry, 1880. Pastor Grand Island, Nebraska, 1882-1886. With Board of Church Extension of General Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in United States of America, 1886-1894.
Professor church history, Old Testament exegesis, Hebrew and German, Trinity Seminary, Blair, Nebraska, 1900-1904.
Settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1904. Founder of the Luther Press.
Founder and editor Northern Review, and “The Lutherans in All Lands” (quarterly). Pastor Pentecost English Evangelical Lutheran Church Made extensive research work in Europe, Egypt and Palestine.
President General Lutheran Missionary Conference.
Vice president American Lutheran Mission for Russia. Organizer and founder students’ missionary societies in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Author: Lutherans in All Lands, 1893.
Lutherans in All Lands, Supplement, 1919.
Die Lutherische Kirche der Welt, 1901. Three Language Education, 1914.
Translator of writings of Martin Luther (13 volumes issued, 7 more translated). Home: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Married Nora Cecelia Walsted, September 18, 1919.