Rev. Dr. Alan G. R. Steinberg

Rev. Steinberg received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Concordia University in Illinois, a Masters Degree in History from Columbia University, a Masters of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary in Indiana and a Doctorate in European History from St. John’s University. He received a Fulbright Research Scholarship to study in Greece. In 1985, he presented a paper at Yale’s Graduate Club on the confrontation between Martin Luther and Thomas More. In 1997 he accepted an invitation to participate in an international symposium on British History at the University of Paris, where he lectured at the Sorbonne. He has done research in Reformation studies as a Scholar-in-Residence at St. Deiniol’s Residential Library in Wales. In 2006, he joined scholars from the UK and France in a symposium at Yale University on European thought and writing during the era of the Reformation. He taught in Lutheran schools in New York and Pittsburgh, as a professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Concordia College in Bronxville. He served as the Pastor at St. Matthew’s in Hastings, Immanuel in Mt. Vernon, Bethany in Yonkers, St. Mark’s in Yonkers, and Trinity in Hawthorne, and many other churches in Westchester. He is likely the oldest minister to be ordained by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, which occurred in 1999 at the age of 71. Most recently in April, he gave his granddaughter her first communion.

The family will receive friends at the WESTCHESTER FUNERAL HOME, INC. EASTCHESTER, Thursday 4-7:30pm. A funeral service will be held on Friday May 21st at 10AM at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Elwood Ave, Hawthorne, NY. Interment to follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson. In lieu of flowers, friends who wish may contribute to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod World Mission, 1333 South Kirkwood Rd, St. Louis, MO 63122. To sign our online guestbook visit www.westchesterfuneralhome.com