 Carn also oversaw the publication of a German language version of the Book of Mormon which was published in Hamburg 25 May 1852.He was eventually banished from Hamburg, then a sovereign state, due to his attempts to convert Germans to Mormonism but he continued to prostelyse Germans in the then Danish territory of Schleswig-Holstein.Most early converts emigrated to the United States and, by 1854, the short-lived Hamburg branch was dissolved.