Ingrid walter trobisch biography

After Walter's untimely death, Ingrid Trobisch returned to the family home in Springfield, Missouri, and engaged in writing and speaking.
Born in Leipzig, Germany, Walter Trobisch was drafted into the army at age 18.
Biographical Information.

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Trobisch, Ingrid

1926-2007
Lutheran , Family Life Mission
Cameroon

Walter Trobisch and Ingrid Hult were missionaries to Cameroon and family life counselors. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Walter Trobisch was drafted into the army at age 18. Wounded on the Russian front, he was evacuated to Vienna, where he began studies for the ministry. After the war he continued his study at Leipzig and Heidelberg and spent a year at Augustana College in Illinois. There he met Ingrid Hult, who was born of missionary parents in Tanganyika (Tanzania) and planned to serve in Africa with the Augustana Lutheran church’s Sudan Mission. While in language school in Paris, she renewed her acquaintance with Walter, who now was a pastor in Germany. In 1950 she went to Cameroon, but their love grew and two years later they were married. He joined her in the mission and in 1953 they began to pioneer work at Tchollire, in northern Cameroon. In 1957 they were reassigned to Cameroun Christian College in Libamba, where Walter Trobisch taught German and Bible and served as the campus pastor. He also offer

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Ingrid H. Trobisch Oral History Interview

Full Name: Ingrid Hult Trobisch Birth date: February 17, 1926 Birth place: Moshi, Tanganyika, Africa (now Tanzania)

Death Date: October 23, 2007

Parents: Ralph and Gertrude Jacobson Hult (Ralph Hult was on the Zamzam on his way to Tanganyika when it was sunk in 1941.)

Siblings: John, Veda Magnuson, Eunice Will, Carl, Gustaf, Mary Orvis, David

Marital Status: Married to Walter Arthur Trobisch, June 2, 1952 Children: Kathryn Herta, Daniel Martin, David Johannes, Stephen Walter, Ruth Ingrid

Education:

1945 Luther Junior College, Wahoo, Nebraska

1945-1947 B.A., Augustana College, Rock Island, IL

1947-1948 Lutheran Bible Institute

1949-1951 M.A., Sorbonne, University of Paris

Career:

1948-1949 Parish worker, First Lutheran Church, Rock Island, IL

1951-1952 Missionary for Sudan (Lutheran) Mission, Poli, Meiganga, and Garoua-Boulai, Cameroon

1953-1957 Missionary in Tchollire, Cameroon

1957-1963 Teacher in the Cameroon Christian College, Libamba, Cameroon

1963-1969 Teacher, together with husband, of courses on marriage in Third

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Walter and Ingrid Trobisch and the Globalization of Modern, Christian Sexual Ethics

Walter and Ingrid Trobisch played a major role in shaping a transcultural conversation about love, sex, gender identity, and marriage during the mid-twentieth century. The Trobisches are most well known for Walter's book I Loved a Girl (1962), which he wrote while teaching at Cameroon Christian College. Within a decade, one million copies of the book were in circulation, it was translated into seventy languages, and Trobisch had received ten thousand letters from African and American readers of the book asking for relational advice. The Trobisches founded an international marriage-counseling ministry to answer these letters. While the Trobisches held paternalistic attitudes common among western missionaries of their generation, their vision of sexuality helped Christians in Africa and the United States to navigate changing sexual norms of the mid-twentieth century.

Anneke H. Stasson is Associate Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan Univ