Person:Carl-Ludwig (Louis) Janzow (1)

Served Bethany Congregation in St Louis, Missouri, congregation of 1500.

The Rev Ludwig Janzow was a main promoter of English work in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He worked to establish the English Missouri Synod, later becoming the English District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

He had a photographic memory, reciting whole pages at a time. Once he had a caller who spoke only Norwegian. Rev. Janzow asked the man to return one week later, at which time Rev Carl was ready to converse with him in Norwegian.

Rev. Janzow knew church leader C.F.W. Walther and was Walther's first biographer.

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1847 Carl Ludwig Janzow, promoter of English in the Missouri Synod, was born at Heringsdorf, Pomerania (d. 5 May 1911). He emigrated with his parents to the U.S. at age six, and the family settled in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, area. Carl graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1870. He first served several parishes in Kansas and Missouri in the area around Kansas City. He then was pastor in Dryden, Minnesota, and Frohna, Missouri, before beginning a 24-year pastorate at Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Saint Louis). Toward the end of his ministry he served congregations in the vicinity of Freedom, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House (Saint Louis) and wrote an English biography of C. F. W. Walther.

http://www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0701.htm (Accessed 9/1/2013)