Hans Gerhard Stub
Hans Gerhard Stub (23 February 1849 – 1 August 1931) was an American
Norwegian Lutheran Church in America.[1]
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Background
Hans Gerhard Stub was born in
Norwegian Synod, which his father had help found in 1853. He studied for a time in Norway at the Bergen Cathedral School
.
Stub later attended
St. Louis, Missouri in 1872 and became a pastor in Minneapolis during 1878.[2]
He was a professor of theology and from 1879 head of St. Paul, Minnesota. From 1881 to 1882, he studied at the Leipzig University
.
Ministry
He was a pastor position in Decorah, Iowa (1896–1900) and later became a professor at Luther College (1898–1900). In 1900 he was a professor and head of the Luther Seminary. He was editor of several journals, including the Norwegian language Teologisk tidsskrift (1899–1908). Stub was also the author of numerous books and articles.[3]
Stub was head of the Norwegian Synod from 1911. On June 9, 1917, the
Norwegian Lutheran Church in America, which resulted from the church unification. He was also a founder and later president (1918–21) of the National Lutheran Council in the United States.[4]
Hans G. Stub was appointed a Knight of the 1st Class of the
Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1908, Commander in 1912, and received the Grand Cross in 1926. Stub was the recipient of the first honorary degree granted by Luther College (Doctor of Laws) on his 75th birthday, February 23, 1924. He also received honorary degrees from Capitol University and St. Olaf College. The papers of Hans Gerhard Stub are contained within the Luther College Archives.[5]
Personal life
Hans Stub was married three times. In 1876 with Didrikke Aall Ottesen (1855–1879), daughter of Luther Church leader,
Hagbard Emanuel Berner
.
Selected works
- Om Naadevalget (1881)
- Foredrag mod det humanistiske og saakaldte kristelige Frimureri (1882)
- Hr. Kristofer Jansons prædiken (1893)
- Fra fars og mors liv (1907)
- Hvad staar iveien for det kirkelige enighedsarbeide blandt os? (1911)
- Foreningssagens Gang (1916)
- Interchurch World Movement (1920)
- Reminiscenses from Bygone Days (1922)
References
- ^ "Hans Gerhard Stub (Store norske leksikon)". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ "Hans Gerhard Stub (Luther College)". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ "Hans G. Stub (biography by Øyvind T. Gulliksen in Store norske leksikon)". Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ "The Merger of 1917 (Rev. Theodore A. Aaberg. Center and Scarville Evangelical Lutheran Churches)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ "Papers of Hans Gerhard Stub (Luther College)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
Other sources
- Norlie, O. E. Norske lutherske prester i Amerika 1843–1913 (Minneapolis, 1914)
- Norlie, O. E. Luther College through sixty years, 1861–1921 (Decorah, IA, 1922)
- Stub, Jacob Aal Ottesen Some Memories of My Father (in Lutheran Almanac, Minneapolis, 1932)
- Nelson, E. Clifford The Lutheran Church Among Norwegian-Americans (Minneapolis, 1960)
External links
- Bust of Hans Gerhard Stub (Paul Fjelde. 1926)
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