Hobart Baumann Amstutz

Hobart Baumann Amstutz ( born September 18, 1896 in Henrietta, Ohio, † February 26, 1980 in Claremont (California ) ) was an Evangelical Methodist theologian and bishop.

Life and work

Hobart Baumann Amstutz had two brothers; " Clarence John " Stutz " Amstutz " and " Melvin Amstutz ". He attended high school in Oberlin (Ohio ) until 1915, then two years, the Baldwin - Wallace College until he was drafted into the U.S. Army to participate in the First World War. After the war he continued his education and received the 1921 Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University. Followed in 1923 the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston (Illinois ) and MA at Northwestern University. 1938 Baldwin - Wallace College awarded him an honorary doctorate of theology (DD / divinitatis Doctor).

Hobart Baumann Amstutz was a missionary of the Wesleyan Church in 1926 in Southeast Asia. In 1942 he was sent to a POW camp of the Japanese Empire and remained interned three and a half years. From 1956 to 1964, he was elected bishop of the Methodist Church of South East Asia ( Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma). He was founding president of Trinity College ( Singapore). Shortly after his retirement, he was again appointed to be 1964 to 1968 Bishop of the Methodist Church in Pakistan. Special services he acquired there as part of the union of various churches to the Church of Pakistan.