Gottlieb Bender Christiansen

Bible Translators Theologians Gottlieb Bender Christiansen (October 27, 1851 – September 27, 1929) was an American Lutheran Minister who served as President at Trinity Seminary in Blair, Nebraska and was the first president of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church.

He came to America with his betrothed Jensine Larsen on August 15, 1877, via the SS Gellert (part of the Hamburg German American line).

He died September 27, 1929, at the Ebenezer Home in Brush, Colorado, later Buried in Elk Horn, Iowa.

On January 1, 1889, Reverend Christiansen came to serve Brorson Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Christiansen was called to be the first president of the newly formed United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1896–1921.