Otto Charles Hintze, Jr. (1923-2016) Papers

Collection — Box: 1 of 2

Identifier: Collection ID-2999

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Scope and Contents

Folders

Enga Hymns, Liturgies, Pastors', Eldes' Evangelists' Helps
Missionary Newsletters, 1949-1965
Enga Pedagogical Grammar, 1964
Raeapo Enga Scripture Pericopes, 1961-1962
Old Truths for a New Day by O.A. Geiseman [each sermon contains notes of where Hintze used the sermon and the date. The numbers on the entry probably are hymn numbers in The Lutheran Hymnal]

Dates

Creation: 1949 - 1965

Language of Materials

Enga

Biographical / Historical

Hintze was born 22 March 1923 at El Paso, Texas the son of Otto Carl Hintze, a steel fabricator, and his wife, Pearl Evelyn (nee Greene).

He attended Saint John College, Winfield, Kansas and Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri graduating in 1947 and continuing his studies to obtain an S.T.M. degree in 1948. He later earned a Th.D. from the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago in 1980 and was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree from Saint John College in 1986.

He served the LCMS as a missionary in New Guinea from 1948 to 1965, then as a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, from 1965 to 1978. From 1976 to 1988 he was an area secretary with the Board for Missions/Mission Services of the LCMS primarily focusing on Latin America.

Hintze died 20 March 2016 in Webster Groves, Missouri.