Leon Irschick
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photograph of Leon Irschick (1889-1974), a 1919 graduate of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada. He is seated and wearing a dark suit.
- Notes
- Leon Irschick was born in Riga, Latvia in 1889. In 1912 he immigrated to Canada, and entered the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada in 1915. After graduation in 1919 he entered the Biblical Seminary in New York to prepare for missionary work. From 1922 to 1960 he served as a missionary in India where he met and married Viola Steigerwalt, a nurse at the Rajahmundry Mission Hospital.
Wilfrid Laurier University is located in Waterloo, Ontario. It began in 1911 as the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada. In 1924 Waterloo College was established, providing courses in post-secondary education. In 1960 Waterloo College became Waterloo Lutheran University, and in 1973 changed its name to Wilfrid Laurier University. Laurier Brantford opened in 1999. - Inscriptions
- Reverse, in pencil: Dr. Leon E. L. Irschick
Reserse, stamp: 6480 - Date of Original
- Between 1915 and 1960
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 8cm
Image Height: 5.5cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- U57_861.1
- Collection
- Wilfrid Laurier University photograph collection
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Wilfrid Laurier University Archives & Special Collections
- Reproduction Notes
- U57 Disc42
- Contact
- Wilfrid Laurier University LibraryEmail:libarch@wlu.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3C5
