Justus Christian Henry Helmuth

Justus Christian Henry Helmuth (16 May 1745 in Helmstedt, Brunswick, Germany – 5 February 1825 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) was a German-American Lutheran clergyman.

He was ordained to the ministry at Wernigerode in 1769, and in the same year went to the United States in response to an urgent call from Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania.

In 1785, with his colleague and intimate friend John Frederick Schmidt,[1] he established a private seminary at Philadelphia, for the education of young men for the ministry, which continued for twenty years, until age and pressure of other labors prevented them from attending properly to the work.

His published works include Taufe und heilige Schrift (Baptism and holy scripture, 1793), Unterhaltungen mit Gott (Conversations with God), books for children, and a volume of German hymns.

For several years he edited the Evangelical Magazine, a German periodical of Philadelphia which he had founded, and the first Lutheran Church newspaper in the United States.