Horning, Friedrich Theodor

Horning, Friedrich Theodor a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1809 in Alsace. In 1835 he was pastor at Grafenstaden, in 1845 at Strasburg, and died there in 1882, president of the consistory. Horning was a strict Lutheran, and founded, in 1849, the Lutheran Missionary Society. He wrote, Evangelisch - lutherische Kirche: — and with Rittelmeyer he published, in 1863, Gesangbuch fur Christen Augsburger Confession. He also edited Kirchenblatt fur die Kirche Augsburger Confession. See Lichteriberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religienses, s.v. (B.P.).