Frederick William Stellhorn (2 October 1841 – 17 March 1919), an American Lutheran theologian, was born in Brüninghorstedt, a community in Warmsen the Landkreis of Hannover, in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany.

His father died of cholera in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in September 1854, leaving his mother widowed with two young children.

Frederick married Christiane Maria, daughter of Ernst and Amalie (Weber) Buenger, in Altenburg, Missouri, on January 9, 1866.

Bible Translators Theologians In Fort Wayne he spent six years in the upheaval that culminated in the Predestination Controversy of 1880.

His term of office as professor of German was long, and it was not until late in life when natural decline made it necessary for him to have less work that he was relieved.