1. Wilhelm Sihler was a German American Lutheran minister.
11 Facts About Wilhelm Sihler
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Wilhelm Sihler was born in Germany in Bernstadt, near Breslau, in the historical region of Lower Silesia.
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Wilhelm Sihler was employed as a private tutor in Breslau during 1829 and 1830.
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Wilhelm Sihler was an instructor at a private college in Dresden during 1830.
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Wilhelm Sihler served as a teacher in Pomeroy, Ohio, and vicinity during 1844.
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Wilhelm Sihler was ordained within the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio in June 1844.
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Wilhelm Sihler had arrived in America as the result of a call for help by FCD.
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Wilhelm Sihler was one of those who read Wyneken's The Distress of the German Lutherans in North America and decided to leave his home country for America.
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In September 1846, Wilhelm Sihler started a small seminary in the parsonage at St Paul's Lutheran Church of Fort Wayne.
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Wilhelm Sihler was the father of prominent classicist Ernest Gottlieb Wilhelm Sihler.
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Wilhelm Sihler encouraged zeal and love for the Word of God and the Lutheran Confessions.