William Nast (Methodist)

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Wilhelm (William) Nast
Portrait of Wilhelm Nast sitting down
Wilhelm Nast
Personal details
Born(1807-06-15)15 June 1807
Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
Died16 May 1899(1899-05-16) (aged 91)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
ChildrenWilliam F. Nast
EducationUniversity of Tübingen
OccupationClergyman, editor

Wilhelm (William) Nast (1807–1899) was a German-born

religious leader and editor. He founded the German Methodist Church of the United States.[1] In addition, he was the grandfather of Condé Montrose Nast
.

Biography

Nast was born on 15 June 1807 in

German Wallace College which eventually became Baldwin Wallace University He died in Cincinnati on 16 May 1899.[1]

Publications

After 1859 he edited the German publications of the Methodist church, and after 1840 was in charge of the Christian Apologist, the organ of his branch. He translated a large number of religious works into German, and was the author of Christological Meditations (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858); a commentary on the New Testament in German (1860); the Gospel Records (1866); Christologische Betrachtungen (1866); and Das Christenthum und seine Gegensätze (1883).

External links

Nast's Biography: http://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/6506/MH-2001-April-Daniel.pdf

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