Fred W. Meuser, Lutheran theologian and leader, dies at age 94
Meuser, a scholar of Martin Luther and American Lutheran history, also served on a multidenominational council and as a seminary president.
Fred W. Meuser, theologian, pastor, and first president of Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Ohio, died June 16 at age 94 in Orlando, Florida.
He studied at Capital University and Yale Divinity School and joined the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary in Columbus as professor of church history in 1953. He was ordained in the American Lutheran Church, one of the predecessors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and served as a pastor in Florida before becoming a professor.
In 1969, Meuser accepted a two-year call to serve as the executive secretary of the Division of Theological Studies at the Lutheran Council in the United States of America as it studied the ordination of women for three Lutheran denominations.
