Ernst G. W. Keyl

Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl ( May 22nd 1804 in Leipzig, † August 4, 1872 in Monroe, Michigan, United States)

Wilhelm Keyl studied theology at Leipzig University and was ordained in 1829. He was on 20 September 1829 and to emigrate to America in November 1838 pastor in Niederfrohna. He was an integral in the preparation of the emigration of about 800 Saxon Lutherans, the 1838/1839 due to theological tensions with the liberal church government under the leadership of Pastor Martin Stephan to Missouri, United States, emigrated. Wilhelm Keyl left on 3 November 1838 of the " Johann Georg" Bremerhaven and reached on January 5, 1839 New Orleans. Together with Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther he is one of the founders of the Missouri Synod. After the founding of Frohna he worked as pastor until September 19, 1847 in the local community. In June 1847 he received an appointment to the Lutheran. Church in Freistadt and the Trinity community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked there from October 10 1847 to 23 June 1850. From July 14, 1850, he served as pastor at St. Paul's church in Baltimore, Maryland. The last years of his ministry he spent in Willshire, Ohio, where he was introduced on 26 September 1869 as pastor and in the late autumn of 1871 went into retirement. He served several years as President of the Eastern District of the Missouri Synod.

Publications

• Lutherophilus (St. Louis, 1854)
• Catechism interpretation of Dr. Luther 's writings ( 4 volumes, 1853-1868 )
• Sermon designs on the Sundays and feast -day Gospels from Dr. Luther 's sermons " (1866 )

Biography

J. F. Köstering: life and work of the Rev. Ernst Gerhard Wilh. Keyl because. Pastor of the Synod of Missouri, Ohio, among others St., Luth. Concordia, St. Louis, Mo. 1882

Novel

Paust, Inge Rose: Abstract of eight hundred

• Man
• German
• The Lutheran minister (19th Century )
• Person (Milwaukee )
• Born in 1804
• Died in 1872
• Emigrants from Germany