William Frederick Arndt (1880-1957) Papers

William F. Arndt was born on 1 December 1880 in Mayville, Wisconsin. After attending Concordia College, Saint Paul and Concordia College, Milwaukee, he graduated from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, in 1903. He received his MA from the University of Chicago in 1923 and his Ph.D. from Washington University in 1934. In 1930, the DD degree was conferred on him by Concordia College, Adelaide, Australia. Before coming to serve the Saint Louis seminary as professor of New Testament Exegesis in 1921, he served Silver Grove Lutheran Church in Bluff City, Tennessee; Saint Peter in Saint Joseph, Missouri; Bethlehem in Brooklyn, New York; and Saint Paul College in Concordia, Missouri as professor from 1912-21.

In 1907, he married Emma Vetter and had two daughters, Erna and Ilse.

He was on the editorial staff of the Homiletical Magazine and the Concordia Theological Monthly. His best-known work is his translation with Dr. F.W. Gingrich of Bauer’s New Testament Lexicon. Dr. Arndt died in February of 1957 in England while assisting the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England to establish a seminary in conjunction with Cambridge University.