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(March 14, 1865–February 5, 1917). B. Dresden, Ger.; attended Lat. school in Niederplanitz conducted by K. G. Stöckhardt*; to Am. 1878; educ. Conc. Coll., Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Conc. Sem., St. Louis, Missouri; pastor in that part of Dakota Territory which became S. Dak. 1889; pastor Gibbon, Minnesota, 1895, simultaneously joining the Minnesota* Syn.; pastor Wood Lake, Minnesota, ca. 1904, and of the parish in and near Goodhue, Minnesota, 1913; moved to St. Paul 1915; pres. Minnesota Syn. 1912–17.