Bible Translators Theologians Thorbjorn Nelson Mohn, born Torbjørn Nilsen Moen (July 15, 1844 - November 18, 1899) was an American Lutheran church leader and the first president of St. Olaf College.
Mohn was called the following year as principal of the newly founded St. Olaf's School and pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota.
The religious intentions of the institution were clear, but the school began without the official endorsement of any Lutheran church body.
Thorbjorn N. Mohn was among the leading advocates of the anti-Missourian position together with Bernt Julius Muus and John N. Kildahl as well as Luther Seminary Professor Marcus Olaus Bockman.
The United Norwegian Lutheran Church first adopted and then abandoned St. Olaf as its official college.