Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl

Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl (born May 22, 1804 in Leipzig , † August 4, 1872 in Monroe , Michigan , USA ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman who emigrated to the United States , where he co-founded the Missouri Synod .

Life

Wilhelm Keyl studied theology at Leipzig University and was ordained in 1829 . He was a pastor in Niederfrohna from September 20, 1829 until he emigrated to the United States in November 1838 . He was instrumental in preparing the emigration of around 800 Saxon Lutherans, who emigrated to Missouri in 1838 and 1839 due to theological tensions with the liberal church leadership under the direction of Pastor Martin Stephan .

Wilhelm Keyl left Bremerhaven on November 3, 1838 on the Johann Georg and reached New Orleans on January 5, 1839 . Together with Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther , he was one of the founders of the Missouri Synod . After Frohna was founded, he worked as a pastor in the local community until September 19, 1847. In June 1847, he received an appointment to the Free City Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Trinity Church in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . He worked there from October 10, 1847 to June 23, 1850. From July 14, 1850, he served as a pastor in the St. Paul Congregation in Baltimore , Maryland . He spent the final years of his ministry in Willshire , Ohio , where he was instituted as a pastor on September 26, 1869, and retired in late fall of 1871.

For several years he served as President of the Eastern District of the Missouri Synod.

Publications

• Lutherophilus . St. Louis, 1854.
• Catechism interpretation from Dr. Luther's writings . 4 volumes, 1853–1868.
• Draft sermons on the Sunday and Holiday Gospels from Dr. Luther's sermons . 1866.

literature

biography

• JF Köstering: Life and work of Ven. Ernst Gerhard Wilh. Keyl because. Pastor of the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and St. Luth. Concordia, St. Louis 1882.

novel

• Ingerose Paust: Extract of the eight hundred .