Alfred Ottomar Fuerbringer (August 11, 1903 – February 26, 1997) was an American
Lutheran minister and college president.
Fuerbringer was born in 1903 in
St. Louis, Missouri. He was one of several ministers in his family; his grandfather, Ottomar Fuerbringer, was one of the
Saxon Lutherans who had built the log cabin seminary in
Perry County, Missouri.
His father,
Ludwig Fuerbringer, was president of
Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, the "academic" seminary of the
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 1.8 million members, it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States. The LC ...
(LCMS), from 1931 to 1943.
His brother
Otto Fuerbringer
Otto Fuerbringer (September 27, 1910 – July 28, 2008) was an editor for the American news magazine ''Time''.
Life
Fuerbringer was born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. to Ludwig and Anna Zucker Fuerbringer. His father was a Lutheran minister. ...
was an editor of
''Time'' magazine.
Fuerbringer attended
Concordia College in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then Concordia Seminary in St. Louis.
After graduation, he was a pastor at several congregations in
Oklahoma
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and
Kansas. He then served as president of
Concordia Teachers College in
Seward, Nebraska
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, for twelve years before becoming the president of Concordia Seminary in 1953. He retired from the presidency in 1969, but remained at Concordia as the director of continuing education.
The selection of
John Tietjen
John H. Tietjen (June 18, 1928 – February 15, 2004) was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader in the United States. He is best known both for his role in the Seminex controversy which roiled the Lutheran Church–Misso ...
as his successor to the presidency was one of the precipitating events in the
Seminex controversy that resulted in Fuerbringer and the majority of the faculty and student body leaving Concordia to establish Concordia Seminary in Exile (later named Christ Seminary-Seminex) in 1974.
Fuerbringer also eventually left the LCMS and joined the
Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
Fuerbringer died on February 26, 1997, in
Norman, Oklahoma.
References
External links
Worksby Alfred O. Fuerbringer
Papersat Concordia Historical Institute
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20th-century American Lutheran clergy
American people of German descent
Seminary presidents
Seminary academics
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod people
1903 births
1997 deaths
Clergy from St. Louis