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Author and Preacher

Eric W. Gritsch (1931–2012)

• Emeritus Professor of Church History, Lutheran Theological Seminary Gettysburg

• Native of Austria

• Experienced the reign of Adolf Hitler and Russian military occupation

• Ordained: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

• Educated: University of Vienna, University of Zurich, University of Basel, Yale Divinity School at Yale University

• Fulbright Scholar

• Director of Institute of Luther Studies at Gettysburg

• Delegated Participant in U.S. Lutheran–Catholic Dialogue (1971–1992)

• Taught at Wellesley College, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary (1961–1994), Catholic University of America, California Lutheran University, Ecumenical Institute at St. Mary’s Seminary and University (Baltimore, MD)

• Authored twenty-five books, including

Martin—God’s Court Jester (1983)

Fortress Introduction to Lutheranism (1994)

The Wit of Martin Luther (2006)

Toxic Spirituality (2009)

A History of Lutheranism (2nd rev. ed., 2010)

Martin Luther’s Anti-Semitism (2012)

Christendumb (2013)

Numerous essays, reviews, and translations

• Frequent teacher and preacher in the church at large

• Married to Bonnie A. Brobst

Coeditors

Bonnie Ann Brobst, Baltimore, Maryland

• Widow of the late Eric W. Gritsch

• Education Director of the Chesapeake Alternative School in Baltimore, MD, a secondary facility for at-risk youth

• Member of Zion Church of the City of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

Elizabeth Anne Yates, Richmond, VA

• MDiv, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia

• Lutheran Year at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Ordained: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

• Student and friend of Eric Gritsch

• Member of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Richmond, VA

Illustrator

Othmar Carli, Painter/Sculptor, York, PA

• Longtime friend of Eric W. Gritsch

• Native of Austria

• Commissioned by CRUTA, The Foundation for Conservation & Research of Urban Traditional Architecture, for his repair and restoration of the Mahtab Trust’s temple complex & palaces in Burdwan, West Bengal

• Honored by the Friends of the United Nations in 1995 for his restoration in the northern quarter of Calcutta, India, where he taught local artisans preservation techniques

• Commissioned by the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria

• The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Gettysburg Ceremonial Courtroom 1860

• Professor of Art Technology, The Pennsylvania State University