Kristian Anker Explained

Kristian Anker (October 29, 1848 – November 16, 1928) was a Lutheran minister who served as the first president of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College.^{[1] [2]}

Kristian Anker served as a Lutheran pastor in Elk Horn, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska. Kristian Anker was pastor of St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chicago from 1881 to 1882.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

External links

• Anker Society
• Kristian Anker Portrait

Other sources

• E. Mortensen, Stories from Our Church (Des Moines, Iowa: 1952)
• P. C. Nyholm, The Americanization of the Danish Lutheran Churches (Copenhagen: 1963)
• J. M. Jensen, The United Evangelical Lutheran Church: An Interpretation (Minneapolis, Mn: 1964)

Other reading

• Foght, Harold Waldstein Rural Denmark and its Schools (MacMillan New York: 1915)
• Schwieder, Dorothy Iowa: The Middle Land (University Of Iowa Press: 1996)
• Vig, P. S. Dansk Luthersk Mission i Amerika i Tiden för 1884 (Blair, Nebraska: 1917) Norwegian

Notes and References

1. Former Minister's Wife Passed Away - Mrs. Kr. Anker (Audubon County Journal (Iowa) Aug. 30, 1923) http://iagenweb.org/boards/audubon/obituaries/index.cgi?read=205202
2. Anker, Kristian (Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod) Web site: The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia . 2009-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090901021101/http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=A&word=ANKER.KRISTIAN . 2009-09-01 .
3. St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church (75th Anniversary booklet, 1950) http://archive.elca.org/archives/chicagochurches/ststephensdelc.html
4. Founded April 25, 1875 as Danish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation (Elk Horn Lutheran Church) http://www.elkhornlutheran.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=140007918&sec_id=140001801
5. http://www2.dana.edu/news/n093005.html Elk Horn Højskole Folk School (Dana College)
6. A Biographical Directory of Pastors who served in the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (The Danish Church) 1871–1962 (by Enok Mortensen http://archive.elca.org/archives/text/DELC_Biographical_Directory.pdf