Haugeanism in America Biographies
The Norwegian American Lutheran churches would not have been such a success without their energetic pastors
Here is a list of figures important to the Haugean movement and Norwegian American Lutheranism in general.
Hans Nielsen Hauge, founder of the Haugeans
Norwegian (American) Clergymen
- Elling Eielsen, first Norwegian American Lutheran pastor and a radical Haugean
- Claus Lauritz Clausen, Danish schoolteacher and pastor, organizer of Norwegian Lutheran Synod
- Johannes Wilhelm Christian Dietrichson, pastor who clashed with Eielsen, organizer of NLS
- Adolph C. Preus, organizer of NLS
- Herman A. Preus, organizer of NLS
- Hans Andreas Stub, organizer of NLS
- Jacob Aal Otteson, organizer of NLS
- R.D. Brandt, organizer of NLS
- G.F. Dietrichson, organizer of NLS
- Ulrik Vilhelm Koren, first Norwegian Lutheran pastor west of the Mississippi, organizer of NLS
- Sven Oftedal, professor, pastor, and co-founder of Lutheran Free Church
- Gjermund Hoyme, pastor and president of multiple synods
Others
- Georg Sverdrup, professor and co-founder of Lutheran Free Church
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian poet whose liberal views caused controversy within the church