# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-f-w-walther
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:43:35.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-f-w-walther"
name: "C. F. W. Walther"
slug: "c-f-w-walther"
description: "Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister. He was the first president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) and one of its most influential theologians. He is commemorated by that church on its Calendar of Saints on May 7. He has been described as a man who gave up his homeland for the freedom to speak freely, to believe freely, and to live freely, by emigrating from Germany to the United States."
tagline: "Founding President of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, Lutheran Theologian, Publisher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pres_walther.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1811-10-25"
deathDate: "1887-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.380565333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "C.F.W. Walther"
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    title: "س. إف. دبليو. والثر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._F._W._Walther"
    title: "C. F. W. Walther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Wilhelm_Walther"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._F._W._Walther"
    title: "C. F. W. Walther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Wilhelm_Walther"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._F._W._Walther"
    title: "C. F. W. Walther"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Wilhelm_Walther"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Wilhelm_Walther"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump