Lorenz Nieting Collection

The Rev. Nieting was a member of St. James Lutheran Church in Gettysburg. He graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., and continued his education at the University of Erlangen in Germany before being awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1964. Following his education, Dr. Nieting served in the Philippine Lutheran Mission in Luzon and later became Dean of the Philippine Theological Seminary in Manila. For a time, the Rev. Nieting was an Assistant Professor of Exegetical Theology-New Testament at Hamma Divinity School in Canton, Ohio. In 1967, he became a professor of the New Testament and Greek at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, a position he held until his retirement in 1990. Dr. Nieting was an avid reader who loved music and travel.