Sven Oftedal

Sven Oftedal

:"For the Norwegian politician by the same name see" Sven Oftedal (Norwegian politician).Sven Oftedal (March 22, 1844 - March 30, 1911) was a Norwegian American who helped found the Lutheran Free Church. Sven was born in Norway and studied at the University of Oslo. He came to Minneapolis in 1873 to serve as a professor of the New Testament at Augsburg Seminary, predecessor to Augsburg College. He eventually became the third president of the seminary in 1907, and served until his death in 1911. It was at Augsburg that Oftedal, along with previous Augsburg Seminary president Georg Sverdrup, founded the LFC.


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