Krauth grad­u­at­ed from the Get­tys­burg [Penn­syl­van­ia] The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary in 1841, then pas­tored over 20 years in var­i­ous lo­ca­tions. In 1864, he be­came a pro­fess­or of dog­ma­tics at the Luth­er­an The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. In 1868, he be­came Pro­fess­or of Men­tal & Mor­al Phil­o­so­phy at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia, and in 1873 be­came vice pro­vost of that school. He was the first pre­si­dent of the Gen­er­al Coun­cil, a fed­er­a­tion of Lu­the­ran sy­nods, and edited The Lu­ther­an and The Lu­ther­an Church Review. His daugh­ter was hymn trans­lat­or Harriet R Spaeth. His works in­clude:

• Fundamental Articles of Faith and Church Policy, 1866
• The Conservative Reforma­tion and Its The­ol­o­gy, 1872
• Theses on Pulpit- and Altar-fellowship, 1877
• Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences, 1877
• Constitution for Congrega­tions, 1880

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Translations

1. Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The
2. Wide Open Are Thy Hands