{"id":15,"date":"2014-07-22T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:54:39","slug":"about-norlie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/locluth\/about-norlie\/","title":{"rendered":"O. M. Norlie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Decades before digital technology and big data, O. M. Norlie gathered and published masses of information<\/strong> about American Lutheranism. He was an author, a historian, a librarian, an editor, and a statistician. \u00a0By his own estimate he spent 200,000 hours in this work and produced some 232,000 pages of published and unpublished material.<\/p>\n

In the preface to Norlie's two volume bibliography of his work, his colleague Alf Houkom observed:\u00a0\"Nothing seems to discourage Dr. Norlie, nothing seems to exhaust his endurance. \u00a0. . . Infinite patience, attention to the minutest details, and systematic arrangement of the material are shown on every page.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lutheran A<\/em>lmanac\u00a0<\/i>presented information about the whole sweep of Lutheranism, but Norwegian-American Lutherans were the primary subject of several of Norlie's publications.<\/strong> \u00a0Among these his directories of pastors, teachers, and congregations remain monumental accomplishments.<\/p>\n

For Norske lutherske menigheter i Amerika<\/em>\u00a0 Norlie and his assistants collected information about 6,764 congregations and ministries in forty states, the District of Columbia, and Canada.<\/strong> \u00a0Along with dates of founding (and closure), he identifies pastors, reports on membership, lists organizations, and gives financial information. \u00a0Many entries include a photograph of the building. \u00a0Locations are often approximate rather than precise addresses. \u00a0In addition to noting congregations' synodical affiliations, Norlie includes sections on each synod. \u00a0Following a directory of prominent laymen, the second volume concludes with chronological, geographical, alphabetical, and pastoral registers.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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