William Nast (Methodism)
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William Nast was a German-born religious leader and editor. He founded the German Methodist Church of the United States.

Biography

Nast was born in 1807 June 15 in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
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, Germany
Germany
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. He was educated at the University of Tübingen with a view to entering the ministry, but preferred literary pursuits, and after his graduation was connected with the press
Journalism
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. Nast emigrated to the United States in 1828, taught at the United States Military Academy
United States Military Academy
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, and subsequently became a professor in Kenyon College
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

, Ohio. He united with the Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
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 in 1835, was licensed to preach, and at the conference of that body in 1837 was appointed to establish a German mission in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
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. He proved so successful in that enterprise
Nast Trinity United Methodist Church
The Nast Trinity United Methodist Church is a historic congregation of the United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Designed by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford and built in 1881, it was the home of the first German Methodist church to be established anywhere in the...

 that in the course of twenty years German Methodist churches were established in almost every state in the Union, and in various parts of Germany, Norway
Norway
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, and Sweden
Sweden
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. He died in Cincinnati 1899 May 16.

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).
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