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Founder of Concordia Theological Seminary
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Wilhelm Sihler was born in Bernstadt, Silesia, on November 12, 1801, and studied at Berlin. In 1843 he emigrated in answer to F. C. D. Wyneken's printed appeal for pastors for the American frontier, sent out by Wilhelm Löhe; he was ordained in June 1844. He became the third pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, succeeding Wyneken himself, and in September 1846 he opened a seminary for Löhe's students in his own parsonage — the founding act of Concordia Theological Seminary, which he served as its first president from 1846 to 1861. He was a founding member of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in 1847. He spent the remaining decades of his life in Fort Wayne and died there on October 27, 1885.
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Sources: Concordia Theological Seminary (published institutional history, ctsfw.net); WELS Historical Institute Journal.