Ludwig Balthasar Wernborner was born 11 March 1741 in Nieder-Rosbach, Hessen-Nassau (Prussia), son of Pastor Johann Daniel Wernborner.
On 17 April 1758, he began theological studies in Gießen (Hessen), and was ordained in 1766 in Friedberg (Hessen).
He arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 May 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Geier along with many families that settled in the colony of Katharinenstadt.
From 1768 to 1774, he served as pastor of the Katharinenstadt (South) parish.
According to the history written by Gottlieb Beratz, Pastor Wernborner was killed in 1774 during the attempts to rescue the colonists who were being held captive by the Kirghiz.
- Beratz, Gottlieb. The German Colonies on the Lower Volga: Their Origin and Early Development (trans. by L.W. Pfeifer, L.J. Rippey, & D. Reeves-Marquardt) (Lincoln, NE: AHSGR, 1991): 215-227.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #164a.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 179.