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

 Collection — Box: 1 of 2
Identifier: Collection ID-2999
Otto Charles Hintze Jr. photo

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.

Extent

1.43 Linear Feet (One cubic foot box; One 5" legal box)

Physical Location

3.12.4.5

Title
Otto Charles Hintze, Jr. (1923-2016) Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Todd D. Zittlow
Date
March 13, 2023
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Concordia Historical Institute Repository

Contact:
804 Seminary Place
Saint Louis MO 63105 USA
314-505-7935