Library Biography

Life and Work of the Honorable Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl

By J. F. Koestering. This local edition gives the preliminary remark and each numbered chapter its own page for easier mobile reading and linking.

Source text from the translated Google Docs edition: Google Docs.

About the Work

Biography as church history

This biography follows Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl from his youth in Saxony through his ministry, his involvement in the Saxon emigration, his repentance after Stephanism, and his pastoral work in Missouri, Wisconsin, Baltimore, and Ohio.

It is valuable both as biography and as a window into the inner history of early Missouri Synod Lutheranism. Koestering uses Keyl's life to revisit the spiritual conditions in Germany, the motives for emigration, the conflicts of the American Lutheran scene, and the pastoral character of a man who helped shape old Missouri.

This local edition gives the preliminary remark and each numbered chapter its own page for easier reading on phones and tablets. It follows the translated Google Docs text linked below, so occasional translation or OCR artifacts may still remain.

Title page attribution: J. F. Köstering, Life and work of the Honorable Ernst Gerhard Wilh. Keyl, St. Louis, Missouri, printed by the "Luth. Concordia-Verlag," 1882. This hosted edition follows the translated Google Docs text linked above.

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Preliminary Remark

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Chapter I. Keyl's Youth and Student Years

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Chapter II. Keyl's Call to the Preaching Ministry and His Nine Years of Blessed Ministry in the Saxon Regional Church

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Chapter III. Keyl's Companionship with Stephan and Its Consequences

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Chapter IV. Keyl's Emigration to America and His First Congregation in Frohna, Perry County, Missouri

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Chapter V. Keyl's Effectiveness in Wisconsin

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Chapter VI. Keyl's Effectiveness in Baltimore, Maryland

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Chapter VII. Keyl's Effectiveness in the Community near Willshire, Van Wert County, Ohio

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Chapter VIII. Keyl as a Preacher and His Theology

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Chapter IX. Keyl's Private and Family Life

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Chapter X. Keyl's Last Days and His Blessed End

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