Christian Heinrich Zeller

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Christian Heinrich Zeller

Christian Heinrich Zeller (born March 29, 1779 at Hohenentringen Castle near Tübingen , † May 18, 1860 at Beuggen Castle near Rheinfelden ) was a German pedagogue , pioneer of the Inner Mission and hymn poet of a pietistic direction.

Life

Zeller, a son of Württembergischen lawyers Christian David Zeller (1749-1812), grew up in Ludwigsburg and studied from 1796 at the University of Tuebingen jurisprudence , but also kept in touch with one of Jonathan Friedrich Bahn Maier led pietistic students wreath. After graduating in the autumn of 1800, he entered a law firm, but could not make friends with the legal profession and worked as a tutor for Baron von Schnurbein in Augsburg from 1801, and in St. Gallen from 1803 , from where he visited Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . In 1809 he got a job as a teacher and school inspector in Zofingen ( Aargau ). Here he met Christian Friedrich Spittler , the secretary of the Basler Missionsgesellschaft , with whom he founded a school for the poor in 1817 in order to carry out the work of the mission in his own homeland. In 1820 the school for the poor, designed by Zeller, was opened at Schloss Beuggen , a Baden domain not far from Basel , which was combined with a "rescue house" for neglected children. Zeller ran this institute until his death.

Zeller's marriage to the pastor's daughter Charlotte Dorothee “Sophie” Siegfried (1791–1858) had eleven children. The daughter Marie married the Swiss Samuel Gobat in 1834 , who became Protestant bishop of Jerusalem in 1846 . The daughter Bertha married the philologist, Catholic apostolic theologian and church servant Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch in 1840 . The daughter Therese married the pastor Karl Friedrich Werner in 1837 . The sons Nathanael (1823–1890) and Reinhard (1826–1891) continued their father's work as administrator and inspector of the Beuggener Anstalt. Samuel Zeller (1834–1912) became head of the institution in Männedorf.

Effect and meaning

The Beuggener Anstalt became a model for many other rescue houses. Zeller's brother, the Prussian high school and government councilor Carl August Zeller (1774–1846), Pestalozzi's employee, opened a child rescue center in the former Lichtenstern monastery in the Heilbronn district in 1836 (today the Lichtenstern Evangelical Foundation ). Pestalozzi assessed the Beuggener Anstalt very positively during his visit in 1826. After his own project had failed, he is said to have said about the Zeller institution: "That's what I wanted."

Franz Eugen Schlachter put Zeller in his story Master Pippin . Pictures from a Hidden Life (1898) a literary monument.

Zeller's hymn, Dearest Savior we are here , first published in 1837, is listed under number 165 in the hymn book of the Evangelical Reformed Churches in German-speaking Switzerland . It is recorded here under the title Faithful Savior, We Are in the Evangelical Church Hymns Württemberg (No. 561), in the Mennonite Hymnal (No. 12) and in the church songs (No. 92).

In Ammerbuch - Entringen a street is named after Heinrich Zeller.

Known pupils

Johann Peter Schäfer was one of his well-known pupils . The teacher Friedrich Stucki reached the Gröditz ironworks in Schradenwald in 1832, on foot.

Works

Hohenentringen. Memorial plaque for Christian Zeller
  • Teaching of experience for Christian rural and poor school teachers. Instructions first for d. Custodians u. Apprentice d. voluntary poor school teacher institution in Beuggen , vol. 1–3, JG Bahnmeier, Basel. 1st ed. Vol. 1: 1827, Vol. 2 and 3: 1828; 2nd ed. 1851, 3rd ed. 1855, 4th ed. 1865
  • Brief doctrine of the soul, based on writing and experience, for parents, educators and teachers, for domestic and school use , Ed. Vd Calwer Verlagsverein, Calw [u. a.]: Vereinsbuchh. [u. a.], 1st ed. 1846, 2nd ed. 1850
  • Loios and Euinike: 2 Tim. 1.5. The upbringing of children for time and eternity; with a foreword by Inspector Reinhard Zeller , Basel: Spittler, 1879
  • Heinrich Waller's youth , Basel: Spittler, 1889
  • Divine answers to human questions , Basel: Bahnmaier, 4th ed. 1875
  • The eternal huts
  • Beyond. Thoughts on St. Font , Basel: Spittler, 2nd edition, no year.
  • About toddler care. A short guide for parents, educators and carers of small children , Stuttgart: Verl. U. Buchh. d. ev. society, 2nd edition 1875, 5th edition 1881
  • Conseils sur l'éducation des petits enfans ; (under the name: Chrétien-Henri Zeller), Ed .: Société pour la traduction d'ouvrages chrétiens allemands, Transl .: H. Caumont, Neuchâtel: J. P. Michaud, 1842 (or Neuchâtel: Attinger)
  • Wisdom from above. Drawn from God's word; With a foreword by W [ilhelm] Arnold , Basel: 1889

In addition, Zeller wrote numerous smaller treatises / sermons in the "monthly sheets of Beuggen", z. T. were later published separately. Below is a selection:

  • Israel's future. A treatise ; Strasbourg: Wwe Berger-Levrault, 1844; also as an appendix in: Abraham Capadose: Thoughts on the state of souls in the seclusion between death and resurrection; Düsselthal: Rescue Agency, 1846
  • On human diseases and their divine purposes , Basel: Verl. Christl. Writings, 1883
  • The five first Christians: contemplation on John, chap. 1, verses 35 to 51 , Strasbourg: Wwe Levrault, 1846
  • The first Christian women's association , Strasbourg, 1845
  • What was Jesus Christ born for? (Monthly sheet of 1835, No. 12), Strasbourg: Wwe Levrault, 1844
  • The Adoration of Christ (monthly sheet of 1842, no.3), Strasbourg: Wwe Levrault, 1843

For more of these treatises see cat. D. Franz. National Bibl.

Remembrance day

May 18th in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

literature

  • Heinrich Thiersch: Christian Heinr. Zellers Leben , Basel 1876 (2 volumes).
  • Ferdinand Sander:  Zeller, Christian Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 25 f.
  • Karl Ruth: The pedagogy of the south German rescue house movement; Christian Heinrich Zeller and Swabian Pietism . Berlin 1927
  • Gottfried Dehlinger: Christian Heinrich Zeller. Pedagogue of Swabian Pietism . Stuttgart 1982
  • Hui-Chung Ho: Christian Heinrich Zeller's educational thinking as the basis of his work at the “Voluntary School Teacher Institute” in Beuggen . Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1989
  • Werner Raupp (Ed.): Lived Faith. Experiences and life testimonies from our country. A reading book, Metzingen / Württ .: Ernst Franz-Verlag 1993, pp. 295-302, 394 (introduction, source texts, lit.).
  • Renate Reimann: Christian Heinrich Zeller's educational institution in Beuggen - religious motivation for social activity . In: The Markgräflerland. Contributions to his history, Vol. 2, Schopfheim 1997, 39-48
  • Karl Rennstich:  Zeller, Christian Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 385-388.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Herbert Leube: Family and Christian Diakonie, family circle and descendants of Christian Heinrich Zeller and Sophie Siegfried , Verlag der St. Johannis-Druckerei Lahr, 1999 ( abridged Internet edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed genealogical information on the homepage of the Paul Wolfgang Merkelschen Family Foundation
  2. ^ Christian Heinrich Zeller in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Christian Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenentringen Castle near Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1860
Place of death Beuggen Castle near Rheinfelden, Baden