Heinrich "Henry" Sieck (July 1, 1850 – September 7, 1916) was a German-American
Lutheran
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minister, writer, and college president.
Heinrich Sieck was born on July 1, 1850, in
Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He came to the United States when he was four years old. He attended
Concordia College in
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Then he attended
Concordia Seminary in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
.
Sieck was pastor at the Swedish Lutheran congregation in
Memphis, Tennessee
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, beginning in 1873 and was present for the laying of the cornerstone of the church building.
In 1877, Sieck married Pauline Stutz, who was from
Washington, D.C.
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He became pastor of the Lutheran church in
South Bend, Indiana
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, in 1879, where he also taught German and English in 1880. He then served as a pastor in
Erie, Pennsylvania
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, starting in 1882. He was the pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1886 to 1889,
and of Salem German Lutheran Church in
Stillwater, Minnesota, from 1889 to 1893.
Sieck was the first president of
St. John's College in
Winfield, Kansas
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, from 1893 to 1895.
He accepted a call to Mount Olive English Lutheran in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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, in 1895 and served until 1905. Sieck was also the secretary for the Wisconsin district of the
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
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from 1895 to 1905.
Sieck returned to Zion in St. Louis for its
golden jubilee
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Bangladesh
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in 1910; his son
Louis Sieck was then assistant pastor there.
Sieck died at his home in
Tomahawk, Wisconsin
Tomahawk is a city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,346 at the 2010 census. The city is located to the northeast of the Town of Tomahawk and is not contiguous with it.
History
Before 1837, the land where Tomaha ...
, on September 7, 1916.
Selected works
*
Sermons on the Gospels of the Ecclesiastical Year'. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, c1904, 1906.
*
The Way to Life: 53 Short Sermons'. Milwaukee: Northwestern Pub. House, c1905.
''Adventspredigten über ausgewählte Texte nebst Anhang: Reden zur Christfeier;'' ''Passionspredigten'' St. Louis: Concordia Publ. House, 1906.
*
Sermons on the Epistles of the Ecclesiastical Year'. St. Louis: Concordia Pub. House, 1912.
*
Lenten Sermons'. Milwaukee: Northwestern Pub. House, 1913.
References
External links
Henry Sieckat
Christian Cyclopedia
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1850 births
1916 deaths
19th-century American Lutheran clergy
20th-century American Lutheran clergy
Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod people
Clergy from Mannheim
German emigrants to the United States
Concordia Seminary alumni