Edwin Gaustad, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdwin Gaustad
American historian
Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1923
Date of Death: 25-Mar-2011
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Edwin Gaustad
- Edwin Scott Gaustad (November 14, 1923 – March 25, 2011) was a Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.
- He achieved fame with his study of the genealogy of religion in the United States, Historical atlas of religion in America.
- The 1972 edition of this work has been used in secular histories of Mainline Protestantism and the Emergent church movement (denominationalism) for decades, and his a Religious History of America was a standard text for college students.
- A graduate of Baylor University and Brown University, Gaustad dedicated his career to sharing his expansive research on religious history.
- Gaustad was President of the American Society of Church History.
- Gaustad died March 25, 2011 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 87.
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