- Christophe Moehrlen
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Christophe Moehrlen Born 20 January 1800
Baiersbronn, WürttembergDied 28 February 1871 (aged 71)
Daillens, SwitzerlandOccupation Schoolteacher, writer Genres Children's literature, Christian literature Christophe Moehrlen (20 January 1800 – 28 February 1871), pen name: Christoph Irenius, was a Swiss French protestant pastor of German origin, schoolteacher and author of children's literature.
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Biography
Moehrlen was teacher at the Evangelical College in Schiers,[1] at the poorhouse Calame in Le Locle[2] and at Christian Friedrich Spittler′s Griechenanstalt in Beuggen.[3] He later worked as a pastor in Payerne where he founded a reformatory for boys, and finally in Daillens.[4] In addition to some educational works and translations, he published in 1839 under the pseudonym Christoph Irenius the autobiographical book Eine wahrhafte Geschichte (“A true story”).
Moehrlen was the father-in-law of Otto Sutermeister.[5][6]
Selected works
- Christoph Irenius: Eine wahrhafte Geschichte. Autobiography. Basel, 1839.
- Geschichte der Waldenser: von ihrem Ursprunge an bis auf unsere Zeit. Basel: Bahnmaier's Buchhandlung, C. Detloff, 1844. 99 pages.
- Das Buch der Wahrheitszeugen oder der theuern protestantisch-evangelischen Kirche ununterbrochene Fortdauer in allen Jahrhunderten. Geschichtserzählungen für Schule und Haus. 2 Volumes, Basel 1844-1845 (Volume 1 and Volume 2 at Munich Digitization Center)
- Histoire biblique pour les écoles et les familles. Translation from German to French. Payerne: Louis Gueissaz, 1850-60.
Secondary literature
- Marie Dedie-Moehrlen. Une belle vie: la vie de mon grand-père, le pasteur Christophe Moehrlen, 1800-1871. Neuchâtel: Impr. P. Attinger S.A., 1936. 199 pages.
- Olivier Dedie (editor). Le dernier journal du pasteur Christophe Moehrlen. (from 1866 to 1869) Rolle: Société d'histoire de la Côte, 1987. 32 pages.
References
- ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch. Christian Heinrich Zeller's Leben. Vol. 1. Felix Schneider, 1876, p. 308
- ^ Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Vol. 43-45. Historische und Antiquarische Gesellschaft zu Basel, Stiftung Pro Augusta Raurica, R. Reich, 1944. p. 132
- ^ Heidy Margrit Müller. Dichterische Freiheit und pädagogische Utopie: Studien zur schweizerischen Jugendliteratur. Lang, 1998. p. 33. ISBN 9783906757568
- ^ Anzeige einer Knaben-Erziehungsanstalt in the second volume of his work Das Buch der Wahrheitszeugen. Basel 1846, p. 829
- ^ Christophe Moehrlen, Société Genevoise de Généalogie
- ^ Erinnerung an Frau Professor Ernestine Sutermeister-Moehrlen: Geboren den 18. Oktober 1832 / Gestorben den 18. Juli 1900. 1900.
Categories:- 1800 births
- 1871 deaths
- People from the District of Freudenstadt
- German schoolteachers
- Swiss schoolteachers
- German educationists
- Swiss educationists
- German children's writers
- Swiss children's writers
- German novelists
- Swiss novelists
- German-language writers
- French-language writers
- Protestant theologians
- German theologians
- Swiss theologians
- German Protestants
- Swiss Protestants
- 19th-century German people
- 19th-century Swiss people
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