Esther Rothenbusch Crookshank
CROOKSHANK, Esther Heidi Rothenbusch. b. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 12 July 1958. Esther Rothenbusch Crookshank, musicologist and hymnologist, has served on the faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) in Louisville, Kentucky, since August 1994, where she followed Hugh T. McElrath* in hymnology instruction. She was installed as Ollie Hale Chiles Professor of Church Music in September 2004. She was born the daughter of Jakob Rothenbusch III and Irene Rothenbusch, German immigrants from Poland. German is her first language. In June 2001, she married Robert J. Crookshank. She earned the Bachelor of Music, History and Literature (cum laude, 1979) from Baldwin-Wallace College...
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