Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken (1810-1876) Papers

This collection consists of documents from and about F. C. D. Wyneken.

Box 1 contains documents; Box 2 contains books that were owned by Friedrich; Box 3 contains his handwritten sermons and sermon notes, as well as his autographed copy of Der Lutheraner, 1844-1845.

Some of Wyneken’s correspondence has only been preserved in printed or copied form. A correspondence list identifies letters that are found in this collection in original form, those that are located in other collections at Concordia Historical Institute and those that are found only in published sources. Letters from donors and other materials documenting the provenance of the collection are in the last folder of Box 1.

Documents pertaining to the descendants of F. C. D. Wyneken are preserved in the Institute’s general biographical collection.

Box 1

• General and Biographical Information (includes correspondence and research notes about details in Wyneken’s life)
• Lindemann, J. C. W. — Biography of Wyneken (Amerikanischer Kalender interleaved copies)
• Copy 1 contains a notation signed by L. Fuerbringer, 28 Jan. 1926: “Wertvolle Notizen für Wynekens Leben aus P. C. C. Schmidts Nachlaβ (+ 1925) der diesen Kalender wohl von J. C. W. Lindemann, dem Biographer Wynekens erhalten hat. Schmidt was Wynekens Schwiegersohn.” The monthly calendar section contains birth, marriage and death dates for members of the Wyneken family. The interleaved section of the Lindemann biography includes many notations. In the back is a handwritten “Chronologischer Lebensabriss des Hochwürdigen amerikanischen Evangelisten Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken und Familien-Register.”
• Copy 2 was donated to the Institute in January 2002 by Pastor Roger Neeb, a great-grandson of Wyneken. This copy has many of the same family entries on the interleaved pages of the calendar section but no notations in the Lindemann biography section.
• Lindemann, J. C. W. — Biography of Wyneken (Translations)
• Copy 1: “A Biographical Sketch of the Honorable American Evangelist Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken to the Lutheran People of America in Grateful Love,” by Johann Christoph Wilhelm Lindemann, tr. James P. Lanning, ann. and ed. Robert E. Smith; first draft; Walther Library, Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, 1995
• Copy 2: “Friedrich Konrad [Conrad] Dietrich Wyneken, An Evangelist among the Lutherans of North America,” tr. from Lebensbilder aus der Geschichte der christlichen Kirche. Selected and revised for Lutheran readers of North America by Eugen Adolf Wilhelm Krauβ (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1912), 734–94. [Tr. by Ziggy Rein.]
• Wyneken Genealogy
• Wyneken Residence (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
• Correspondence, 1844–1876 (originals)
• Correspondence, 1838–1876 (copies, transcriptions, translations—includes list of FCDW correspondence in Wilhelm Sihler Collection)
• Correspondence — Einwaechter, 1862–1877 [Alexander Einwaechter was a close friend of Wyneken from Baltimore. The folder contains original envelopes of letters from Wyneken to Einwaechter, a list of the letters with a summary of their contents, and Wyneken’s last letter, written 2 May 1876 to Einwaechter from San Francisco two days before Wyneken’s death.]
• Obituaries, 1876–1877 [Fort Wayne Morning Gazette 13 (18 May 1876), 4; Lutherische Kirchenzeitung 17:11 (1 June 1876), 84–85; Lutherisches Kinderblatt 4:7 (July 1876), 25–26; Lutheran Standard 35:45 (17 November 1877), 353–56, translation of Lindemann]
• Photographs
• Writings by Wyneken (copies and translations)
• Ansprache an die Glaubensgenoβen in Deutschland von F. Wyneken und C. F. W. Walther. Nördlingen: C. H. Beck’sche Buchhandlung, 1852.
• “An Explanation of Pastor Löhe,” Lehre und Wehre 1 (no. 3, March 1855): 65–75
• “The Methodists,” Lehre und Wehre 12 (no. 3, March 1866): 78–88
• Writings about Wyneken

Box 2

• Wyneken Centennial (1938) and Wyneken Convention (1941)
• Miscellaneous Items from Wyneken’s Lifetime
• Examples of signatures, 1833, 1843, 1854, 1864
• Report to Missionary Society of the Synod of Pennsylvania, 25 February 1839
• Certificate of a marriage performed by Wyneken on board the ship Isabella, 2 Jun 1843
• “Rechtfertigung” (Der Lutheraner 3:6 [17 Nov 1846]:22) – A defense of Wyneken by the church council at Baltimore, 7 October 1846 – with translation
• Request for donations from members of the synod to purchase a new piano and a set of the Walch edition of Luther’s works for Wyneken when he stepped down as synodical president, issued by F. Sievers, 9 November 1864
• “Seiner Hochwürden dem Herrn Pastor Friedrich Wyneken in Liebe und Hochachtung gewidmet von Hermann Fick, Pastor,” Druck von A. Wiebusch u. Sohn, 1865.
• Trost- und Erweckkungspredigt by Wyneken, 1 January 1868, St. Louis: Druckerei des “Lutherischen Concordia-Verlags,” 1879.
• Trost- und Erweckkungspredigt by Wyneken, 1 January 1868, Dresden: Verlag von Heinrich J. Naumann, 1880.
• Trost- und Erweckkungspredigt by Wyneken, 1 January 1868, St. Louis: Lutherischer Concordia-Verlags, 1885.
• Miscellaneous Notes and Documents re Wyneken and the Collection
• Notebook (4.5” x 6.5” x 1.125”), handwritten notes on history from the Carolingian era through the mid-19th century; also vocabulary lists in the back, German phonetic pronunciations of English words, etc. There is a signature in the front of Conradine Wyneken (wife of Heinrich C. Wyneken). The volume was donated to CHI by the estate of Connie (Conradine) Wyneken Steger (1883–1961), a daughter of H. C. and Conradine Wyneken.
• Notebook (7.5” x 8.25” x 1”), “Predigtmanuskripte F. Wynekens. Aus C. C. Schmidts Nachlaβ geschenkt. L. Fuerbringer.” Sermon manuscripts and notes, 1865–1871. Signature: F. Wyneken, 1848.
• Notebook (9” x 11.625” x 0.75”), “Predigtmanuskripte F. Wynekens. Aus C. C. Schmidts Nachlaβ geschenkt. L. Fuerbringer.” Sermon manuscripts and notes, 1871–1876.
• Notebook (4” x 5.5” x .75”), containing handwritten rites for baptism, marriage and funerals in German, English and French; signature: “F. C. D. Wÿneken, Nossa, 1835” [initials in elaborate monogram]. From the reverse cover is a “Liedersammlung, Fort Wayne, 1839” with the signature “F. C. D. Wyneken,” also as a monogram.
• De servo arbitrio: Martini Lutheri ad D. Erasmum Roterodamum. Noremberge, 1526. Inscription on inside first page: “Meinem lieben Walther zu seinem Geburtstage 1854. Fr. Wyneken.” Signature on title page: “Fr. Wyneken.” [Additional note in hand of Ludwig Fuerbringer: “Nach Dr. Walthers Tod (1887) ging dieses Buch (durgh P. Stephanus Keyl, dem Schwiegersohn Walthers) über in den Besitz Pastor J. G. Walthers, dem Neffen C. F. W. Walthers, (+1897), von dem es sein Sohn Pastor Paul Walther erbte, der es 1928 dem Concordia Historical Institute schenkte.”]
• Dr. Martin Luther’s Worte von der heiligen Taufe. Zusammengetragen von W. Löhe. Nürnberg: Verlag der Joh. Phil. Raw’schen Buchhandlung, 1839. Inscription: “F. Wyneken seinem lieben Gerding Fort Wayne 1843.” [Gerding came to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1838 and was one of the founders of Saint Paul Lutheran Church, according to a note from the donor, Miss W. M. Gerding. “Rev. Wyneken and father were great friends and father valued his gift highly.”]
• Der ganze Psalter des Königes und Propheten Davids. Halle: Cansteinschen Bibel-Anstalt, 1838. [Stamp on title page: Bremische Bibel Gesellschaft. Inscription: “Sophie Buuk zur Erinnerung an die Confirmationstunde von F. Wineken.”
• Die Noth der deutschen Lutheraner in Nordamerika. Ihren Glaubensgenossen in der Heimath an’s Herz gelegt von Fr. Wyneken, Pastor in Fort Wayne in Indiana. Erlangen: Theodor Bläsing, 1843.
• Spruchbuch zum Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri usw. zusammengetragen von Fr. Wyneken. Baltimore, 1849. [1965-12-RP-141]
• Spruchbuch zum Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri usw. zusammengetragen von Fr. Wyneken. Baltimore: Druck und Verlag von J. Neuten Kurtz, 1851. [1955-12-LLQ-70]
• Spruchbuch zum Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri usw. zusammengetragen von Fr. Wyneken. Baltimore: Druck und Verlag von J. Neuten Kurtz, 1852. Inscription: “Presented by Rev. G. E. Kirchner to G E. Wyneken, M.D.” [1956-07-GK-208]
• Spruchbuch zum Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri usw. zusammengetragen von Fr. Wyneken. Baltimore: Druck und Verlag von J. Neuten Kurtz, 1852. Signature: Kalbfleisch. [1951-09-PB]
• Spruchbuch zum Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri usw. zusammengetragen von Fr. Wyneken. Baltimore: Druck und Verlag von J. Neuten Kurtz, 1852. Signatures: W. Uffenbeck; Elisabetha Netz; O. F. Hattstaedt. [1957-03-EH-178]
• Spruchbuch zum Kleinen Catechismus Lutheri. Im Auftrage der Synode von Missouri usw. zusammengetragen von Fr. Wyneken. Baltimore: Druck und Verlag von J. Neuten Kurtz, 1852. [1967-08-HK-55]

Box 3

• Sermons, 1865-1871 (bound)
• Sermons, 1872-1877 (boxed)
• Wyneken's autographed, bound copies of Der Lutheraner, Jahrgang 1 ,1844-1845, and Jahrgang 2, 1845-1846