Biography
The Rev. Erhard Torinus was born on 9 June 1886 in Dunayevzy, Poland and died on 9 November 1948 in Bethel and is buried in Eckardsheim. He was ordained on 3 November 1913 in St. Petersburg and served congregations in Odessa (1911-1913), Vladimir-Volhynsk (1913-1915), Saratov (1915-1918), and Tutschin (Volhynia) (1918-1921).
Sources
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 176, 225.