Franz August Otto Pieper (June 27, 1852 - June 3, 1931) was a Confessional Lutheran

Confessional Lutheran

Confessional Lutheran is a name used by certain Lutheran Christians to designate themselves as those who accept the doctrines taught in the Book of Concord of 1580 in their entirety, because they believe them to be completely faithful to the teachings of the Bible...

 theologian; born at Carwitz (85 m. w. of Danzig), Pomerania

Pomerania

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 and died in St. Louis, Missouri. After studying at the gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 of Colberg, Pomerania, he emigrated to the United States in 1870. In 1872, he graduated from Northwestern University in Watertown, Wisconsin

Watertown, Wisconsin

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 and in 1875 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo

Concordia Seminary

Concordia Seminary is located in Clayton, Missouri, an inner-ring suburb on the western border of St. Louis, Missouri. The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod . The current president of...

. He was Lutheran pastor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

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 (1875–78), professor of theology in Concordia Seminary (1878 to 1887), president of the same institution, and also president of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri

Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 2.3 million members, it is both the eighth largest Protestant denomination and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Synod...

, Ohio, and other states since 1899. He also served as editor of Lehre und Wehre, the faculty journal of Concordia Seminary.

From 1882 to 1899, Pieper served on the Board of Colored Missions for the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America

Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America

The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America was a Lutheran joint fellowship organization between the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod , the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod...

. He was the Synod's president from 1899 until 1911.

External links

• Concordia Historical Institute
• Franz August Otto Pieper, The 20th Century Luther
• Our Position in Doctrine and Practice by Dr. Franz Pieper
• Lectures on the Evangelical Lutheran Church, The True Visible Church of God on Earth by Dr. Franz Pieper, trans. by Bryce L. Winters
• The Glorious Blessing of Brotherly Fellowship in Faith by Dr. Franz Pieper
• Theses on Unionism by Dr. Franz Pieper
• Trembling at God’s Word by Dr. Franz Pieper
• The Witness of History for Scripture (Homologoumena and Antilegomena) by Dr. Franz Pieper, (from Christian Dogmatics, Vol I, page 330-38.)
• The Original Text of Holy Scripture and the Translations by Dr. Franz Pieper, (from Christian Dogmatics, Vol I, page 343-49.)
• The Distinction Between Orthodox & Heterodox Churches by Dr. Franz Pieper, (from Christian Dogmatics, Vol III)
• C.F.W. Walther as a Theologian, by Dr. Franz Pieper, Studium Excitare, Issue #8.

• Zur Einigung der amerikanisch-lutherischen Kirche in der Lehre von der Bekehrung und Gnadenwahl by Dr. Franz Pieper (1913)
• und Wehre 8 Vols. of the faculty journal from Concordia Seminary

Works by Franz Pieper

Christliche Dogmatik. 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1917–1924)
Christian Dogmatics,4 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1950–1953)

Distinctive Doctrines of the Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, 1892)

Gesetz und Evangelium (1892)

Das Grundbekenntnis der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1880).

Lehre von der Rechtfertigung (1889)

Unsere Stellung in Lehre und Praxis (St. Louis, 1896)

Lehrstellung der Missouri-Synode (1897)

Christ's Work (1898).
Das Wesen des Christentums.(1903)

What Is Christianity and Other Essays Tr. John Theodore Mueller (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1933)