 Due to his work in the worker districts, he suffered from several diseases, including smallpox and encephalitis.He died at the age of 48, after suffering several strokes.Otto von Gerlach published a major rewrite of the old and new testament after Martin Luther, and translated several important texts of the Great Awakening movement from English into German, including works by John Wesley (1703–1791), Richard Baxter (1615–1691), and Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847).