The Papers of Nikolai Astrup Larsen, 1884-1967 | Luther College Archives

Collection Overview

Title: The Papers of Nikolai Astrup Larsen, 1884-1967Add to your cart.

ID: LCA/RG15/Larsen, N

Primary Creator: Larsen, N. Astrup (1878-1961)

Extent: 9.8 Linear Feet. More info below.

Date Acquired: 03/22/1969

Subjects: Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) - Alumni and alumnae, Missionaries--China, Norwegian Lutheran Church of America

Languages: English, Norwegian, Chinese

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Documentation consists of correspondence, 1897-1967 (family and church); diaries,1907-9, 1916; sermons, 1920’s-1950’s; photographs; budget books, 1949-1965; receipts; insurance policy; journals; booklets; bulletins; family information; newspaper clippings; certificates; autobiographies (him and others); papers of N.L.C.A. (minutes and constitution) and other church related papers and articles; programs; papers on the Iowa District; Luther College papers (information, clubs, events, etc.); pocket books; date books, 1898-1916; speeches; political papers (Communism in China); study notes; notebooks; lecture notes; scrapbooks; minutes; resolutions; a few poems; articles by N.A. Larsen and others; papers and materials on China mission work; World Church convention information and conferences materials (World Council of Churches, American Lutheran Church Conference); date books and almanacs, 1918-1954.

Biographical Note

Larsen was born to Luther College president Laur. Larsen and his wife Ingeborg Astrup Larsen on July 13, 1878.  He graduated from Luther College in 1896.  After graduation, he enrolled at Luther Theological Seminary and graduated from that institution in 1900.  He immediately accepted a call as a pastor in Minnesota.  In 1902, he moved to North Dakota to serve several congregations there.  A year later, he moved again within North Dakota and stayed with a congregation there for eight years.  He married his first wife, Tora Ylvisaker in 1904 who died six years later.  He married Marie Weltzin, whom he met after accepting a call to Our Savior’s Church in Tacoma, Washington in 1911.  Together they performed missionary work in China, and in 1925 he became the president of the Union Lutheran Theological Seminary in China.  Upon his return from China, he received a call to First Lutheran Church in Sioux City, Iowa.  In 1933, Luther conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.  He was elected president of the Iowa District of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in 1934, serving that position until his retirement fifteen years later.  He died in 1961 at the age of 83.

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Larsen ble født 13. juli 1878. Han var sønn av Luther College president Laur. Larsen og Ingeborg (Astrup). Han tok eksamen ved Luther College i 1896. Deretter begynte han ved Luther Theological Seminary og gikk ut derfra i 1900. Kort etter takket han ja til et kall som prest i Minnesota. I 1902 flyttet han til Nord Dakota for å tjenestegjøre for flere menigheter der. Han giftet seg med Tora Ylvisaker i 1904. Hun døde seks år senere og han giftet seg da med Marie Weltzin, som han møtte etter å ha takket ja til et kall fra Our Savior’s Church i Tacoma, Washington, i 1911. Sammen jobbet de som misjonærer i Kina, og i 1925 ble han president for Union Lutheran Theological Seminary der. Da han kom tilbake til USA fikk han et kall fra First Lutheran Church i Sioux City, Iowa. I 1933 mottok han en æresdoktorgrad, Doctor of Divinity, fra Luther. Han ble valgt til president for Norwegian Lutheran Church, Iowa District i 1934, en jobb han hadde til han gikk av med pensjon femten år senere. Han døde i 1961, åttitre år gammel.

Subject/Index Terms

Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) - Alumni and alumnae
Missionaries--China
Norwegian Lutheran Church of America

Administrative Information

Repository: Luther College Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 15 boxes

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Acquisition Source: N. Astrup Larsen Estate

Preferred Citation: Cite unpublished materials: Nikolai Astrup Larsen Papers, RG15 Manuscripts, Luther College Archives, Decorah, Iowa

Finding Aid Revision History:

6/10/24: Abby Bates updated copyright policy link.

5/10/2023: HRJ updated to include acquisition information from original processing documents, add languages, and add subject headings.

11/20/19: EC updated the preferred citation.


Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence, 1900-1967],
[Series 2: Writings, 1925-1961],
[Series 3: Sermons, 1920-1959],
[Series 4: China Missions, 1909-1953],
[Series 5: Church Papers, 1927-1968],
[Series 6: Personal Papers, 1884-1965],
[Series 7: Realia, Undated],
[All]

Series 5: Church Papers, 1927-1968Add to your cart.
Box 7: Church Papers, 1909-1962Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondence on Call from First Lutheran Church of Sioux City, IA, 1928Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Circular Letters on the Church, 1933-42, 44-45, 58Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence on Pastoral Salary, 1937, 44, 46Add to your cart.
Folder 4: World Council of Churches Publications, 1948-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 5: World Council of Chuches Publications, 1950-1951Add to your cart.
Folder 6: World Council of Churches Publications, 1952-1953Add to your cart.
Folder 7: World Council of Churches Publications, 1954-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 8: World Council of Churches, 1956-1957Add to your cart.
Folder 9: World Council of Churches Publications, 1958-1959Add to your cart.
Folder 10: World Council of Churches Publications, 1960-1962Add to your cart.
Folder 11: World Council of Churches Membership Cards and Pamphlets, 1951, 53, 54Add to your cart.
Folder 12: World Council of Churches Sermons and Articles, 1948, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Articles on World Council of Churches, 1947-48, 54, 56Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Sermons on the World Council of Churches, 1942, 56, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: "Should we Join the World Council of Churches", 1948Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Correspondence on the World Council of Churches, 1946-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Lutheran World Convention, 1937Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Correspondence on the World Council of Churches, 1954-56, 58, 61-62, 68Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Third Lutheran World Convention, 1935Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Third Lutheran World Convention Papers and Speeches, 1935Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Correspondence, Lutheran World Convention, 1935-1936Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Correspondence & Papers on Burr Oak Lutheran Church, 1930-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Correspondence & Papers on Calmar Lutheran Church, 1909, 35, 43-47, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Correspondence & Papers on Washington Prairie Church, 1941, 43, 49Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Correspondence & Papers on Madison & Lincoln Parish, 1949Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Correspondence & Papers on Decorah Lutheran Church, 1943, 48-49Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Correspondence & Papers on Bluffton Community Church, 1946-1947Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Correspondence & Papers on First Lutheran Church, 1943-44, 51Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Papers on Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1956, 59, 63Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Papers on Various Churches, 1948-1950, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: Correspondence & Papers on Churches, 1946, 49, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 32: Correspondence with Margaret Wall on Psalm Pamphlets, 1936Add to your cart.
Folder 33: History of Fulton Norwegian Lutheran Church, 1927Add to your cart.
Folder 34: History of Vinje & St. Paul's Lutheran Churches in Callender, 1924Add to your cart.
Folder 35: First Lutheran Church in Sioux City Newsletters, 1930-1933Add to your cart.
Folder 36: First Lutheran Church in Sioux City Newsletters, 1927-1928Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Papers on First Lutheran Church in Sioux City, 1931-32, 34, 47, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 38: Correspondence on First Lutheran Church in McGregor, and Waterville Luth. Church, 1949Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Correspondence & Papers on Lansing Lutheran Church, 1946, 48Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Correspondence & Papers on Churches, 1936-1937Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Correspondence & Papers of Clemont, IA, 1934-36, 39Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Correspondence with Clermont Lutheran Church Parishoners, 1946-1949Add to your cart.
Folder 43: Papers on First Lutheran Church in Minot, ND, 1934, 48, 59, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 44: Correspondence & Papers on Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Worth, TX, 1944, 48, 55Add to your cart.
Folder 45: Building & Dedication of Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Houstan, TXAdd to your cart.
Folder 46: Building Plans & Dedication of Oak Cliff Lutheran in Dallas, TX, 1948, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 47: Churches in Washington and Oregon, 1948, 51, 52, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 48: Papers on First Lutheran Church in Manitowoc, WI, 1952, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 49: Churches in Wisconsin, 1936, 41, 48, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 50: Constitution of Trinity Lutheran Church in Sparta, WI, 1955Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Papers on Various Churches, 1948, 49, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 52: Specific Pastoral Ordinations, 1934-1939, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 53: Specific Pastoral Installations and Ordinations, 1940-1950Add to your cart.
Folder 54: Norwegian Lutheran Church and Lutheran Association of America, 1937, 41Add to your cart.
Box 8: Papers of Lutheran Churches in America, 1931-1952Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Booklets on the Church, 1933, 43Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Brotherhood of the Norwegian Church of America, 1931Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Newspaper Articles and Letters Regarding Newspaper Articles, 1932-33, 35, 40, 49, 54, 59, 60Add to your cart.
Folder 4: American Lutheran Conference, 1932, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: American Lutheran Conference, 1934-1935, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: American Lutheran Conference, 1936Add to your cart.
Folder 7: American Lutheran Conference, 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 8: ALC, Commission on Social Relations, 1938-1940Add to your cart.
Folder 9: American Lutheran Conference, 1940Add to your cart.
Folder 10: American Lutheran Conference, 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 11: ALC, Commission on Social Relations, 1941-1942Add to your cart.
Folder 12: American Lutheran Conference, 1942Add to your cart.
Folder 13: ALC, Commission on Social Relations, 1943-1944Add to your cart.
Folder 14: American Lutheran Conference, 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 15: ALC, Commission on Social Relations, 1945-1946Add to your cart.
Folder 16: American Lutheran Conference, 1946Add to your cart.
Folder 17: American Lutheran Conference, 1947Add to your cart.
Folder 18: American Lutheran Conference, 1948Add to your cart.
Folder 19: ALC, Commission on Social Relations, 1949-1950Add to your cart.
Folder 20: American Lutheran Conference, 1952Add to your cart.
Box 9: Papers of Lutheran Churches in America, 1933-1955Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Norwegian Lutheran Church Iowa District, 21st Annual Meeting, 1936-1937Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Norwegian Lutheran Church Iowa District, 19th & 20th Annual Meetings, 1935-1936Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Norwegian Lutheran Church Iowa District, 17th Annual Meeting, 1933Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Norwegian Lutheran Church Iowa District, 1933-1936Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Pastoral Salary Questionaires, 1937Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Lutheran Church Iowa District Convention, 1944Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Sunday School Program Manuels, 1952-1953Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Teacher-Pupil Sunday School Workbook, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: "Complete Christianity" and Bible School Program, 1929Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence and Information on Teacher Training, 1936, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Church & Sunday School, 1927, 33, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Issues in Lutheran Church, 1949-1950, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: O.H. Pannkoke and issues in Lutheran Church, 1937, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Correspondence and Conference Materials on Evangelism, 1954, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Papers on Lutheran Unity, 1936, 49Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Materials on Merger of ELC, 1948, 54-55, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: Luther Academy, 1950, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: The Church and Conscientious Objectors, 1942, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Materials on Rural Churches, 1943, 45, 49, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: The Lutheran Church and Labor, 1945, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Articles on Church and Related Activities, 1941, 48, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Box 10: Personal and Church Papers, 1920-1960Add to your cart.
Folder 1: American Lutheran Conference, 1930Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Papers and Correspondence on ELC Norwegian Conferences, 1947-50, 52-60Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence and Papers on the Church, 1938-1939Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Correspondence and Reports on Iowa Church, 1934Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Central Lutheran Church, 1922023, 40Add to your cart.

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence, 1900-1967],
[Series 2: Writings, 1925-1961],
[Series 3: Sermons, 1920-1959],
[Series 4: China Missions, 1909-1953],
[Series 5: Church Papers, 1927-1968],
[Series 6: Personal Papers, 1884-1965],
[Series 7: Realia, Undated],
[All]