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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.

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.

References

1. Former Minister's Wife Passed Away - Mrs. Kr. Anker (Audubon County Journal (Iowa) Aug. 30, 1923)
2. Anker, Kristian (Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod) "The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
3. St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church (75th Anniversary booklet, 1950) Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
4. Founded April 25, 1875 as Danish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation (Elk Horn Lutheran Church) Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
5. Elk Horn Højskole Folk School (Dana College) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
6. A Biographical Directory of Pastors who served in the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (The Danish Church) 1871–1962 (by Enok Mortensen Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine

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

• Danish emigrants to the United States
• 1848 births
• 1928 deaths
• 20th-century American Lutheran clergy
• People from Odense
• 19th-century American Lutheran clergy