Wartburg College is a private Lutheran liberal arts college in Waverly, Iowa. Wartburg College was founded in 1852 in Saginaw, Michigan, by Georg M. Grossmann, a native of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria. Pastor Wilhelm Löhe sent Grossmann to establish a pastor training school for German immigrants. The college moved many times between Illinois …
Wartburg College is a private Lutheran liberal arts college in Waverly, Iowa. Wartburg College was founded in 1852 in Saginaw, Michigan, by Georg M. Grossmann, a native of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria. Pastor Wilhelm Löhe sent Grossmann to establish a pastor training school for German immigrants. The college moved many times between Illinois and Iowa before settling in Waverly in 1935. Also in 1935, St. Paul Luther College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, merged with Wartburg College.
Motto: Experience more.
Type: Private liberal arts college
Established: 1852
Religious affiliation: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Endowment: $94 million (2023)
President: Rebecca Ehretsman
Academic staff: 83 full-time and 60 part-time (fall 2022)
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