Augsburg’s Old Main Then and Now

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In the 1870s, the Conference for the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, also known as “the Conference” called two men to serve as professors at Augsburg Seminary. Sven Oftedal began in 1873, and Georg Sverdrup in 1874. These guys ended up defining the institution and its supporting congregations for the next thirty years or [...]