John Louis Nuelsen

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John Louis Nuelsen (born January 19, 1867 in Zurich , † June 26, 1946 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American citizen and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church for continental Europe, the so-called European district of his church.

Life

John Nuelsen was born in Zurich as the son of an American Methodist preacher. He attended schools in Karlsruhe and Bremen and then studied theology at Drew Theological Seminary, in Berlin and Halle.

He worked only briefly in the community service and from 1894 taught in high schools of German Methodism in the United States. By 1899 he was one of 18 teachers at Central Wesleyan College Warrenton, Montana, with 294 students. Then he became one of four professors at the Nast-founded German-American Theological School in Berea, Ohio, which was attended by 36 students. There he was a professor of systematic theology.

In 1908 he was elected bishop of the United States by the Methodist General Conference and was in charge of the Methodist District in Nebraska until 1912. At the general conference in Minneapolis , Minnesota , he was then entrusted with the leadership of the Churches of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the European continent. His work was financially supported with funds from the worldwide mission authority of the Episcopal Methodist Church. Its seat was Zurich.

During the First World War there was serious tension between German Methodists and especially with the English-speaking Methodists in the United States. Nuelsen tried to find a balance, but had to retire from work in Germany until 1919 after the United States entered the war in 1917.

Nuelsen tried to reach an understanding between the churches in neutral and warring states. The small Christian communities were also important to him. In the run-up to the Stockholm World Conference in 1924, Nuelsen said: “The order of the day is the unreserved recognition of the right to exist even for the smaller churches. The expression 'ecclesiastical' cannot be identical with 'regional church'. "

He retired in 1940 and lived in America again until his death in 1946.

Honors

John Nuelsen was honorary chairman of the Association of Deaconess Associations of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Germany and Switzerland.

Fonts

  • JL Nuelsen: Methodism in America , in: Realencyclopadie for Protestant Theology and Church , third revised and enlarged edition, edited. Albert Hauck, volume thirteenth, pages 1 to 25, Leipzig 1903
  • John L. Nuelsen, Theophil Mann, JJ Sommer: Brief History of Methodism from its Beginnings to the Present , 2nd revised and expanded edition, Bremen 1929

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See John L. Nuelsen, Theophil Mann, JJ Sommer: Brief History of Methodism from its Beginnings to the Present , 2nd revised and expanded edition, Bremen 1929, page 644
  2. ^ Karl Heinz Voigt: Free churches in Germany (19th and 20th centuries). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-374-02230-8 , p. 134.
  3. ^ Diakonissenhaus Ebenezer: 50 Years of Deaconess Service in the Reich Capital, 1883–1933, Berlin 1933, page 2
personal data
SURNAME Nuelsen, John Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuelsen, John L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1946
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio , United States