Theodore E. Leidenfrost

Theodore E. A. Leidenfrost ’53 M.Div., was ordained by the New York synod of the United Lutheran Church in America June 1954. The Lutheran Church in Liberia called Theodore to serve the LCL at the Kpelle Language-Literature-Literacy & Bible Translation Center of the LCL in Totota. He and His wife Jane Meyer Leidenfrost were serving in Liberia from 1956-1989 until Theodore’s retirement. In January 2007 Theodore and his coauthor Mr. John S. McKay published a Kpelle-English Dictionary, including a Grammar Sketch & an English-Kpelle Finder-list. The 432 page dictionary was printed & bound by yellow, flexible binding by the Korean Bible Society in 500 copies. When the 500 copies arrived in Moscow, ID January 2008, he sent 400 copies as a gift to the LCL for the needed support of the budget of the LLL-BT Center where Theodore served for 33 years. 100 copies he is trying to sell from Moscow to University libraries for US$ 30.25 including postage. (Yale Divinity School, Class of 1953)