STROBEL, William Daniel, clergyman, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 7 May, 1808; died in Rhinebeck, New York, 6 December, 1884. He received his classical education in his native place, and pursued his theological course at Hartwick seminary, where he was graduated in 1829. In the same year he was licensed to preach by the ministerium of New York, and in 1830 he was ordained to the ministry by the synod of South Carolina. He served as missionary among the destitute Lutherans in South Carolina in 1829-'30, was pastor in Columbia, , South Carolina, in 1830-'1, and in New York city in 1831-'41, principal of Hartwick seminary, New York, in 1841-'4, and held other pastorates in New York state and Maryland till 1881, when he retired from the active duties of his office on account of advancing age and failing health, and lived in retirement at Rhine-beck, New York, until his death. He was president of the general synod in 1879-'80, and held other offices. He received the degree of D. D., in 1846, from Hamilton college, and was the author of numerous articles in periodicals of the church, which were afterward published separately. Among them are "Jubilee Tract" (Baltimore, 1867) ; "Influence of the Death and Resurrection of the Saviour upon the World" ; and an introduction to Dr. George B. Miller's posthumous sermons (New York, 1860).