Franz Pieper

Franz August Otto Pieper (June 27 1852 - June 3 1931) was a Confessional Lutheran theologian; born at Carwitz (85 m. w. of Danzig), Pomerania and died in St. Louis, Missouri. After studying at the gymnasium of Colberg, Pomerania. He emigrated to the United States in 1870. In 1872, he graduated from Northwestern University in Watertown, Wisconsin and in 1875 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. He was Lutheran pastor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin (1875–78), professor of theology in Concordia Seminary (1878 to 1887), president of the same institution, and also president of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states since 1899. He also served as editor of Lehre und Wehre, the faculty journal of Concordia Seminary.

From 1882 to 1899, Pieper served on the Board of Colored Missions for the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. He was the Synod's president from 1899 until 1911.

External links

• Concordia Historical Institute
• Lectures on the Evangelical Lutheran Church, The True Visible Church of God on Earth by Dr. Franz Pieper, trans. by Bryce L. Winters
• Trembling at God’s Word by Dr. Franz Pieper
• The Distinction Between Orthodox & Heterodox Churches by Dr. Franz Pieper
• The Doctrine of Church Government by Dr. Franz Pieper
• The Glorious Blessing of Brotherly Fellowship in Faith by Dr. Franz Pieper
• Theses on Unionism by Dr. Franz Pieper
• Christliche Dogmatik Vol. II by Dr. Franz Pieper
• Christliche Dogmatik Vol. III by Dr. Franz Pieper

Works by Franz Pieper

"C.F.W. Walther as a Theologian," Tr. Caleb R. Bassett, Studium Excitare 3(2005)No. 1.
Christliche Dogmatik. 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1917-1924)
Christian Dogmatics,4 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1950-1953)
Distinctive Doctrines of the Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, 1892)
Gesetz und Evangelium (1892)
Das Grundbekenntnis der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1880).
Lehre von der Rechtfertigung (1889)
Unsere Stellung in Lehre und Praxis (St. Louis, 1896)
Lehrstellung der Missouri-Synode (1897)
Christ's Work (1898). Das Wesen des Christentums.(1903)
What Is Christianity and Other Essays Tr. John Theodore Mueller (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1933)
Zur Einigung der amerikanisch-lutherischen Kirche in der Lehre von der Bekehrung und Gnadenwahl (1913).

References

This article includes content derived from the public domain Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1914.