Such exemplary saints include martyrs, confessors of the Faith, evangelists, or important biblical figures such as Saint Matthew, the Lutheran theologian and martyr to the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered founder John Wesley are among many cited as Protestant saints.

* October 7 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U. S. Lutheran Church ( b. 1711 )

* September 6 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U. S. Lutheran Church ( d. 1787 )

Lutheran pastor and theologian Martin Niemöller, founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, is an Honorary Citizen of Wiesbaden.

* August Hermann Francke ( 1663 – 1727 ), Lutheran Pietist theologian at the University of Halle and founder of the internationally renowned Halle Orphan House complex.

Frederick Muhlenberg was the son of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, an immigrant from Germany and considered the founder of the Lutheran Church in America.

* Reuben Marti, a Lutheran pastor and, with Bruce Thompson, a founder of the Lutheran Pioneers

* Bruce Thompson, with Reuben Marti, a founder of the Lutheran Pioneers

During his forty years of involvement in the church, Walther held several positions, including that of president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis ( founded at Perry County, Missouri in 1838 ), President of Concordia Theological Seminary, now of Fort Wayne, Indiana ( 1861 ), and founder of the St. Louis Lutheran Bible Society ( 1853 ).

It was founded in 1922 in Switzerland by a group of mainly Lutheran theologians and ministers led by Friedrich Rittelmeyer, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy.

It was founded in 1922 in Switzerland by the Lutheran theologian and minister Friedrich Rittlemeyer, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy.

* Max Lackmann, Lutheran pastor and founder of League for Evangelical-Catholic Reunion.

Einbeck is the birthplace of Henry Mühlenberg, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1742 and became the patriarch of the Muhlenberg family dynasty as well as the founder of the Lutheran church in the American colonies.

Reese was ordained as a minister in 2010, after serving as the senior minister and founder of the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church, an independent " Christian New Thought " congregation, which currently meets at First Lutheran Church ( www. firsting. org ) in Inglewood, California.

The death of his mother in 1762 having deprived him of his means of support, he went in 1763 on the invitation of the pastor of the Lutheran community, Anton Friedrich Büsching, the founder of the modern historic statistical method of geography, to teach natural history in the Lutheran academy, St Petersburg, Russia.

* Carl Aaron Swensson, American Lutheran minister and founder of Bethany College

Lewis is musical director of the Elgin Choral Union, a former artistic director of the Lutheran Choir of Chicago, founder and artistic director of The Janus Ensemble, and cantor of Immanuel Lutheran Church of Evanston, Illinois.

The family descends from Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg / Henry Muhlenberg ( 1711 – 1787 ), a German immigrant, noted Lutheran minister, and founder of the Lutheran Church in America.

( 1438 – 48 ; early adherent of Old Norse mythology ), Jöns Bengtsson ( Oxenstierna ) ( 1448 – 67 ; King of Sweden ), Jakob Ulfsson ( 1470 – 1514 ; founder of Uppsala University ), Gustav Trolle ( 1515 – 21 ; supporter of the Danish King ), Johannes Magnus ( 1523-26: wrote an imaginative Scandianian Chronicle ), Laurentius Petri ( 1531 – 73 ; main character behind the Swedish Lutheran reformation ), Abraham Angermannus ( 1593 – 99 ; controversial critic of the King ), Olaus Martini ( 1601 – 09 ), Petrus Kenicius ( 1609 – 36 ),

Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, Bethany ’ s founder, to establish Bethany Academy on October 15, 1881, in the sacristy of Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kansas, with ten students.

Several key leaders early in the Protestant Reformation, including Martin Luther and John Calvin, followed the traditional reasoning in favour of capital punishment, and the Lutheran Church's Augsburg Confession explicitly defended it.

* November 9 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer ( d. 1586 )

* April 8 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer ( b. 1522 )

Philipp Melanchthon ( February 16, 1497 – April 19, 1560 ), born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems.

Loci communes began the gradual rise of the Lutheran scholastic tradition, and the later theologians Martin Chemnitz, Mathias Haffenreffer, and Leonhard Hutter expanded upon it.

Raeder severed his once close friendship with Pastor Martin Niemöller after Niemöller rejected his advice to stay clear of " politics " and accept the application of the Aryan paragraph to the Lutheran church.

* In some Protestant traditions, especially those with closer ties to the Lutheran tradition, Reformation Sunday is celebrated on the Sunday preceding October 31, commemorating the purported day Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

While Martin Luther opposed the whole idea of the spiritual value of monastic life, there are Lutheran religious orders in the United States and Sweden.

Carols gained in popularity after the Reformation in the countries where Protestant churches gained prominence ( as well-known Reformers like Martin Luther authored carols and encouraged their use in worship ), this was the consequence of the fact that the Lutheran reformation warmly welcomed music.

Martin Bucer () ( 11 November 1491 – 28 February 1551 ) was a Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican doctrines and practices.

In the 19th-century German Kingdom of Saxony, Lutheran pastor Martin Stephan and many of his followers found themselves increasingly at odds with the rationalism, Christian ecumenism and Prussian Union ( Evangelical Christian Church ) forcible unionism of established Lutheranism.

Capito was always more concerned for the " unity of the spirit " than for dogmatic formularies, and from his endeavours to conciliate the Lutheran and Zwinglian parties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own friends ; while from his intimacy with Martin Cellarius and other divines of the Socinian school he drew on himself the charge of Arianism.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller ( 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984 ) was a German anti-Nazi theologian " Niemöller, ( Friedrich Gustav Emil ) Martin " < cite > The New Encyclopædia Britannica </ cite > ( Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993 ), 8: 698 .</ ref > and Lutheran pastor.

Martin Niemöller was born in Lippstadt, then in the Prussian Province of Westphalia ( now in North Rhine-Westphalia ), on 14 January 1892 to the Lutheran pastor Heinrich Niemöller and his wife Pauline ( née Müller ), and grew up in a very conservative home.

Sola fide was a doctrine averred by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli and others during the Protestant Reformation, and was a core belief especially in the theology of the Lutheran reformers Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon.

The term " antinomianism " was coined by Martin Luther during the Reformation, to criticize extreme interpretations of the new Lutheran soteriology.

* Martin Hengel, Lutheran theologian, specialising in the Second Temple period

The Laestadian Lutheran Church takes its name from Martin Luther and Lars Levi Laestadius.

This addition to the mass was made by Martin Luther in his Deutsche Messe and remains traditional in Lutheran Churches.

In their early correspondence, Luther expressed boundless admiration for all Erasmus had done in the cause of a sound and reasonable Christianity and urged him to join the Lutheran party.

The reformers soon disagreed among themselves and divided their movement according to doctrinal differences — first between Luther and Zwingli, later between Luther and John Calvin — consequently resulting in the establishment of different and rival Protestant Churches ( denominations ), such as the Lutheran, the Reformed, the Puritans, and the Presbyterian.

After 1555, the Peace of Augsburg became the legitimating legal document governing the co-existence of the Lutheran and Catholic faiths in the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire, and it served to ameliorate many of the tensions between followers of the " Old Faith " ( Catholicism ) and the followers of Luther, but it had two fundamental flaws.

Hutter was a stern champion of Lutheran orthodoxy, as set down in the confessions and embodied in his own Compendium locorum theologicorum ( 1610 ; reprinted 1863 ), being so faithful to his master as to win the title of " Luther redonatus.

The seminary moved to Luther Theological Seminary ( now Luther Seminary ) in St. Paul in 1963 when the Lutheran Free Church merged with the American Lutheran Church.

Though Luther was asked to prepare the articles of faith that came to be known as the Schmalcald Articles, they were not formally adopted at the time of the meeting, though later they were incorporated into the Lutheran Confessions, in the Book of Concord, of 1580, in German, and in Latin translation, in the official Latin edition of the Book of Concord, the Leipzig edition of 1584.

" While this departure from traditional Lutheran thought is sometimes hailed as " the threshold of a third Luther Renaissance ," other Lutheran scholars disagree and argue that the idea of theosis violates Luther's theology of the cross principles by ignoring the real distinction that is axiomatic for not only Luther, but for orthodox Christianity as a whole.

Parochial schools in the city include Luther High School, a Lutheran school, and St. Patrick Elementary School, part of La Crosse Aquinas Catholic Schools.