1907–1976

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Born: Jan­ua­ry 29, 1907, Lake Ci­ty, Min­ne­so­ta.

Died: March 28, 1976, Cam­bridge, Eng­land.

Buried: Cam­bridge Ci­ty Cre­ma­to­ri­um, Gir­ton, Cam­bridge­shire, Eng­land.

Biography

Martin was the son of Will­iam Franz­mann and El­se Grieb­ling.

He was edu­cat­ed at North­west­ern Col­lege, Wa­ter­town, Wis­con­sin (BA 1928), and Wis­con­sin Lu­ther­an Se­mi­na­ry, Thiens­ville, Wis­con­sin.

He taught at North­west­ern Col­lege (1936–46) and Con­cor­dia Se­mi­na­ry, St. Louis, Missouri (1946). In 1954, he be­came chair of Con­cor­dia’s de­part­ment of exe­ge­ti­cal theo­lo­gy.

In 1958, he re­ceived a Doc­tor of Di­vi­ni­ty de­gree from Con­cor­dia Se­mi­na­ry, Spring­field, Il­linois. He al­so did gra­du­ate work at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chi­ca­go, and vis­it­ed Greece on a Da­ni­el L. Shor­ey Tra­vel­ing Fel­low­ship.

In Oc­to­ber 1969, he was or­dained at West­field House, Cam­bridge, Eng­land, and was a tu­tor in the theo­lo­gic­al train­ing pro­gram there (1969–72).

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