Papers, 1843-1862.

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Papers, 1843-1862.

Miscellaneous letters and documents bearing on the history of the Lutheran Church in Wisconsin and the United States, and relating especially to the Buffalo Synod, all in German script. Included are letters of the Rev. Johannes A. A. Grabau, several items bearing on the history of the church at Kirchhayn, Wisconsin, and biographical sketches of Wisconsin Lutheran leaders.

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Engel, Otto, d. ca. 1934.

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Grabau, J. And. A. (Johannes Andreas August), 1804-1879

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See BUF Administrative History Johann Andreas August Grabau was born in 1804 in Olvenstedt near Madgeburg, Prussia, the son of devout Lutheran parents. He was educated in Madgeburg and Halle. A man of sensitive conscience, he pledged fidelity to the Lutheran confessions upon his ordination but was required to use the unionistic liturgy of the Prussian Evangelical Church when called to St. Andreas Church in Erfurt in 1834. The dissonance between his ordination vows and th...

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