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Kristian Anker

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Kristian Anker (October 29, 1848 – November 16, 1928) was a Lutheran minister who served as the first president of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College.[1][2]

Kristian Anker served as a Lutheran pastor in Elk Horn, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska. Kristian Anker was pastor of St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chicago from 1881 to 1882.[3][4][5][6]

References

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  1. ^ Former Minister's Wife Passed Away - Mrs. Kr. Anker (Audubon County Journal (Iowa) Aug. 30, 1923) [1]
  2. ^ Anker, Kristian (Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod) "The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  3. ^ St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church (75th Anniversary booklet, 1950) [2] Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Founded April 25, 1875 as Danish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation (Elk Horn Lutheran Church) [3] Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Elk Horn Højskole Folk School (Dana College) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ A Biographical Directory of Pastors who served in the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (The Danish Church) 1871–1962 (by Enok Mortensen [4] Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
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Other sources

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  • E. Mortensen, Stories from Our Church (Des Moines, Iowa: 1952)
  • P. C. Nyholm, The Americanization of the Danish Lutheran Churches (Copenhagen: 1963)
  • J. M. Jensen, The United Evangelical Lutheran Church: An Interpretation (Minneapolis, Mn: 1964)

Other reading

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  • Foght, Harold Waldstein Rural Denmark and its Schools (MacMillan New York: 1915)
  • Schwieder, Dorothy Iowa: The Middle Land (University Of Iowa Press: 1996)
  • Vig, P. S. Dansk Luthersk Mission i Amerika i Tiden för 1884 (Blair, Nebraska: 1917) Norwegian