church in america founded 1988 country of origin united states headquarters location minneapolis minnesota publication types books magazines imprints augsburg fortress official website www.augsburgfortress.org augsburg fortress is the official publishing house of the evangelical lutheran church in america elca and also publishes for the evangelical lutheran church in canada elcic as augsburg fortress canada . headquartered in minneapolis minnesota augsburg fortress publishes the lutheran the lutheran book of worship lutheran study bible and evangelical lutheran worship as well as a range of academic and educational titles . the current ceo of augsburg fortress is beth lewis . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit the press was formed in 1988 when the fortress press and augsburg publishing house merged as their parent denominations the lutheran church in america lca and the american lutheran church alc joined together with the association of evangelical lutheran churches to form the elca . 1 its two predecessor companies were augsburg publishing house at the time of the 1988 elca merger the company was affiliated with the american lutheran church . it was founded in 1891 in minneapolis at augsburg seminary . 2 at that time both the publishing house and seminary were part of the united norwegian lutheran church of america unlc ; however the seminary would leave the unlc to form the lutheran free church in 1897 . the publishing house left the campus in 1894 relocating to the downtown area in 1908 . by 1960 it was the publishing house of the evangelical lutheran church . with the 1960 merger of lutheran denominations that formed the new american lutheran church augsburg was designated that church s publishing arm . it then absorbed the publishing houses of several denominations that participated in the merger including wartburg press est. 1881 of the old american lutheran church and the danish lutheran publishing house est. 1893 in blair nebraska of the united evangelical lutheran church . when the lutheran free church joined in 1963 its publishing house messenger press est. 1922 was added . fortress press fortress press was the publishing arm of the lutheran church in america headquartered in philadelphia pennsylvania . it came into existence in 1962 with the merger of lutheran denominations that created the lca . the forerunner of the fortress press was henkel press started by the son of paul henkel . 3 4 augsburg fortress continues to use fortress press as an imprint for academic titles and augsburg for popular titles . see also edit concordia publishing house the lutheran church missouri synod s official publishing house . northwestern publishing house the wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod s official publishing house . references edit company history . augsburg fortress . 1970 01 01 . retrieved 2014 05 14 . scandinavian review volume 9 american scandinavian foundation . 1921 page 145 michael l. sherer . when a lutheran isn t a lutheran . metro lutheran . retrieved 28 january 2013 . the henkel press . virginia historical society . retrieved 28 january 2013 . external links edit augsburg fortress official site . the lutheran retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title augsburg fortress & oldid 733590414 categories christian publishing companiesbook publishing companies based in minnesotapublishing companies established in 1988evangelical lutheran church in america navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 8 august 2016 at 21 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view