Christian feast day: Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (Lutheran)

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen

German Lutheran missionary (1834–1918)

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was a Danish Lutheran missionary to Batak lands, North Sumatra who also translated the New Testament into the native Batak language and the first Ephorus (bishop) of Batak Christian Protestant Church. Stephen Neill, a historian of missions, considered…