Martin Franzmann

FRANZMANN, Martin Hans. b. Lake City, Minnesota, 29 January 1907; d. Cambridge, England, 28 March 1976. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Franzmann was educated at Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin (BA 1928), and at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Thiensville, Wisconsin. He undertook graduate work in Classics at the University of Chicago, and taught Classics at Northwestern College from 1936 to 1946; before that he had served for almost two years as pastoral assistant in St Peter’s Lutheran Church, Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio (1935-36). In 1946 he was appointed professor of New Testament at Concordia Seminary, St Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1969. He was a...