The Leonard J. Trinterud Manuscript Collection

1904 September 25

Born, Aneta, North Dakota

1935

Graduated, University of Washington

1935-1938

Student, Bachelor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

1938-1939

Student, Master of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

1940

Ordained, Presbytery of Seattle

1941-1946

Religious book editor, Westminster Press, Philadelphia

1947-1949

Associate professor, Church History, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago

1949-1963

Professor, Church History, McCormick Theological Seminary

1963-1972

Professor, Church History, San Francisco Theological Seminary

1972

Retired

1993 July 24

Died, Walnut Creek, California

The Reverend Doctor Leonard J. Trinterud (1904-1993) took the B.A. degree at University of Washington, the B.D. and Th.M. at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Th.D. at the University of Lund, Sweden. He also did graduate work at Princeton University. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Seattle in 1940 and served as religious book editor at Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1941-46. He was Associate Professor of Church History at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago from 1947 to 1949, and thereafter Professor of Church History until 1963. From 1963 to 1972, he served as Professor of Church History at San Francisco Theological Seminary. His published volumes include, The Forming of An American Tradition (1949), A Bibliography of American Presbyterianism During the Colonial Period (1968), and Elizabethan Puritanism (1971). He was also the translator of The Gospel of God by Anders Nygren.