August 30
1526 The first
battle of Mohács ended with the Turks threatening
Europe.
1563
Wolfgang Musculus, Reformed theologian and hymnist, died
(b. 8 September 1497, Dieuze, Lorraine). [German
Wikipedia article]
1637 American colonial religious leader
Anne
Hutchinson
(1591–1643) was banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, having been charged with
“traducing the ministers and the ministry.”
1742
Ambrose Serle, hymnist, was born in Great Britain (d. 1
August 1812).
1820
George Frederick Root, American chorister and composer of
sacred music, was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts (d. 6
August 1895).
1840
Edmund Bohm, director of Concordia College (Bronxville,
New York), was born in Allstedt, Germany (d. 24 December
1895).
1842 The
Rhenish Mission in South Africa opened.
1850 The
Lutheran Indian mission chapel at Sheboyank, Michigan,
was dedicated.
1852
Franklin Pierce Manhart, president of the General
Council, was born in Catawissa, Pennsylvania (d. 13
September 1933).
1852
Hans Joergen S. Astrup, missionary to Africa, was born
in Grue, Solor, Norway (d. 18 May 1939).
1854
Edmond Louis Budry, hymnist, was born (d. 12 November
1932).
1856
Wilberforce University
was founded in western Ohio by the Methodist Episcopal
Church. It was the second institution of higher learning in
the U.S. to be established for African Americans.
1874
Ira Allen Sankey, son of D. L. Moody’s famous song
evangelist
Ira D.
Sankey, was born (d. 30 December 1915).
1883
Friedrich Schmid(t), pioneer Michigan pastor, died (b. 6
September 1807, Dalddorf, Württemberg).
1889
Johann Georg Kunz, organist and composer, died (b. 8
March 1824).
1896 F. W. Schulze preached his first sermon in
London, England, as a missionary from the Missouri Synod.
1900
Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in
America, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (d. 6 June
1968).
1901
Martin Justus Naumann, Evangelical Free Church of Saxony
pastor and professor at Concordia Theological Seminary
(Springfield, Illinois), was born in Glenwood City,
Wisconsin (d. 30 March 1972).
1901
John Diederich Lankenau, American Lutheran businessman
and philanthropist, died (b. 18 March 1817, Bremen,
Germany).
1985 Gerhardt Wilfred Hyatt died in Arlington,
Virginia. He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis)
in 1944 and served as a pastor in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Entering the military chaplaincy, he rose to become deputy
chief of chaplains and then chief of chaplains of the U.S.
Army. He also served the Missouri Synod on the staff of the
LCMS Foundation, as president of Concordia College (Saint
Paul, Minnesota), as assistant to the LCMS president, as an
LCMS vice-president and as director of the synod’s Forward
in Remembrance fundraising appeal.
