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The Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic was formed in 1989 as a reorganization of The Historical Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America begun in 1952 and of its predecessor organizations, the first of which was founded in 1843. Read more...

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Bertha Paulssen

Bertha PaulssenBorn in Germany in 1891, Paulssen received her doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1917. She soon began to work in the Lutheran Inner Mission societies of northern Germany, and to establish Women’s Auxiliaries in eastern provinces. She modernized

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