October 23
787 The
Second Council of Nicaea
closed.
1520
Charles V
(1500–1558), Holy Roman emperor, was crowned at Aachen.
1597
Cyriacus Schneegass, hymnist, died at Friedrichroda (b.
5 October 1546, Bufleben, near Gotha, Thuringia).
1616
Leonhard Hutter (b. January 1563 near Ulm), one of the
foremost representatives and defenders of confessional
Lutheranism, died.
1779 The first Lutheran church in Africa was
organized at Cape Town, South Africa. Lutheran work in
Africa had started in 1585 when
Duke Ludwig of Württemberg sent an embassy to North
Africa with missionary work as part of its assignment.
1786 The
New York Ministerium
was organized at Albany, New York.
1831
Margaret Henrietta Muhlenberg, daughter of Henry
Melchior Muhlenberg and wife of J. C. Kunze, died (b. 17
September 1751).
1839
Johann Heinrich Sieker, founder of Concordia College
(Bronxville, New York), was born in Schweinfurth, Bavaria,
Germany (d. 30 December 1904).
1842
F.
H. W. Gesenius, famed German Hebrew scholar, died (b. 3
February 1786).
1844
Robert S. Bridges, hymn translator and poet laureate of
Great Britain, was born at Walmer, Kent, England (d. 21
April 1930).
1857
Friedrich Wilhelm Herzberger, the first Lutheran city
missionary in Saint Louis, was born (d. 26 August 1930) in
Baltimore, Maryland.
1871
Edgar J. Goodspeed, American Greek scholar and Bible
translator, was born in Quincy, Illinois (d. 1962).
1914 Martin August Haendschke was born at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 4 July 1984, Seward, Nebraska). He
graduated from Concordia College (Milwaukee) in 1934 and
from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1938. He served
parishes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan and
Missouri before teaching at Concordia College (Milwaukee)
from 1964 in 1975. He then taught at Concordia Seminary
(Saint Louis) until his death.
1941
Shailer Mathews (b. 1863), American Baptist educator,
died.
