Albert Schaffter

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Albert Schaffter (1823–1897), professor at the University of Bern

Albert Antoine Amadée Schaffter (born July 28, 1823 in Bern , † July 31, 1897 in Nashville ) was a Swiss theologian , Romance scholar , English scholar , geographer and university professor .

Schaffter visited the institute of Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek in Wabern, where both physical lessons and training in old and new languages ​​were given special consideration. He then prepared for university studies at the grammar school in Bern . Schaffter studied theology at the University of Bern from 1842 to 1846 , where Samuel Lutz and Matthias Schneckenburger also taught. He passed the theological state examination, was elected to the preaching office by the Bernese regional church on August 26, 1846 and received his doctorate at the philosophical-historical faculty in Bern with the thesis The real location of the holy grave: a historical-archaeological investigation for Dr. phil. This text with a lithographed plan of Jerusalem by Albert Schaffter VDM was printed in the Stämpfli printing house in 1849 . The study found attention, for example, in the Bibliographica geographica Palaestinae of the well-known connoisseur of Palestine literature Titus Tobler or in 1852 in the journal The Museum of Classical Antiquities .

Career

Plan of Jerusalem by Albert Schaffter, 1849

Albert Schaffter was the son of the Orthodox-Pietist Auguste Schaffter (1788–1861), who worked as a pastor at the French Church in Bern and taught practical theology in French at the Academy in Bern.

Albert Schaffer's further career was rather unusual. From Samuel Gobat , missionary and Evangelical-Anglican bishop of the diocese of Jerusalem , Albert Schaffter received the offer to travel to Jerusalem as tutor and chaplain of the German-speaking church of the bishop , where he arrived in 1846. In 1847 he returned to Europe. In Bonn he wrote an investigation into the true location of the holy grave, which he later submitted as a dissertation . He then stayed in London until 1849 , and then worked for a few months in Moutier as vicar for Pastor Moschard and then in Bern as vicar for his father, who was seriously ill.

In May 1850 Schaffter accepted a position as Reformed pastor in Livorno at the Dutch-German Church , which he took up in June and worked until April 1854. During this time he made the acquaintance of Professor Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné on a trip to Geneva , who envisaged him as a Reformed preacher of the French Church in Montreal . Schaffter embarked in Liverpool and later also visited New York , Philadelphia , Washington , Cincinnati , Louisville , which enabled him to gain a wealth of geographic knowledge. Back in Bern , he took up the post of vicar to his father again in 1854 . On February 8, 1855, Albert Schaffter gave a lecture on slavery in North America from his own perspective . In the same year he took up a position as pastor of the French Church in Naples . Between 1857 and 1860 he stayed in Florence as a legation preacher at the Prussian legation in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . In 1860 Schaffter traveled to Berlin in anticipation of employment at the Prussian Foreign Ministry . Back in Switzerland he held the office of pastor in Moutier from 1860 to 1863 .

On January 13, 1863 Albert Schaffter married Clara Bischoff. The marriage had three children: Hélène (* 1864), Rudolf (* 1866) and Hermine (* 1867). With his election as associate professor for theology in French (1863 to 1865) and for French language and literature (from 1863) Albert Schaffter became a professor at the University of Bern . In 1873 he was appointed full professor for Romance languages ​​and literatures. In addition to Romance languages ​​and literatures, he also taught English literature. During his time as a professor in Bern, with the support of several friends, he implemented the idea of ​​founding the Geographical Society in Bern in 1873 . The founding meeting took place on May 15, 1873 in the Zunftstube zu Webern in Bern under the direction of Schaffter. 15 members took part and were accepted into the society. The statutes were accepted and a board of directors was elected. In 1873 a Japanese special embassy, ​​the Iwakura Mission , traveled to Switzerland , where Schaffter informed them about the Bern schools. During those years he also dealt with the question of a settlement in Cyprus. Following his cosmopolitan spirit, he decided in 1875 to buy a large property in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee , in order to emigrate to the United States as a farmer with his wife and children . In 1877 Schaffter was mentioned in connection with the idea of ​​a floating university (study semester on the high seas). On August 6, 1881 Albert Schaffter was elected honorary professor for German, Italian and French as well as for French literature at the University of the South in Sewanee , Tennessee.

During a visit to Europe in 1882, Schaffter gave a lecture on the State of Tennessee at the Geographical Society of Bern and met the later Federal Councilor Emil Frey , who offered him the position of Legation Councilor in Washington. In the same year, the Swiss Federal Council gave the envoy Emil Frey in Washington the approval for the election of Albert Schaffter as Legation Counselor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington. Schaffter held this position as the first legation secretary at the Swiss legation in the United States until 1883. For the next few years, Schaffter lived quietly with his family in Spartanburg until 1890 . At the suggestion of Bishop Charles Todd Quintard of the Diocese of Tennessee of the Episcopal Church of the United States , Schaffter was ordained as a deacon on May 21, 1893 in Nashville and admitted to the priesthood on September 20, 1893 . Bishop Quintard made him head of the Hoffmann Hall (facility for training Afro-American clergy). On November 25, 1893, Albert and Clara Schaffter committed half an acre of land in Beersheba Springs for the construction of a church in which all denominations can hold services.

Albert Schaffter letter remained in contact with the old country as a note shows that in 1894 in the journal of the same Alpina Freemasons - Grand Lodge in Bern appeared. Albert Schaffter sent greetings to the brothers in the lodge. Albert Schaffter died on July 31, 1897. His tomb is in the Mount Olive Cemetery in Nashville .

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Individual evidence.

  1. ↑ Credit: State Archives Bern, TB 962. Printed Picture Portrait in: Annual Report of the Geographical Society Volume 16, 1897 . Queryed August 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ 148 Adelrich Steinach: History and Life of the Swiss Colonies in the United States of North America. New York, 1889, p. 148.
  3. ↑ 1846: Elected to the H. Predigtamt, In: Rudolf Jenni: Directory of the Reformed clergy of the Canton of Bern and their stations. Bern, 1870. p. 33
  4. ↑ The work was most likely supervised by Prof. Anton Henne : Protocol of the Philosophical Faculty of March 23, 1849: "Doctoral application from Mr. Schaffter: Prof. Henne reports in an expert opinion that ..."
  5. ↑ Verbi divini minister : “Servant of the Word of God” - another name for priest or pastor (official name of an ordained theologian of the Evangelical Reformed regional churches in Switzerland).
  6. ↑ Titus Tobler: Bibliographica geographica Palaestinae - initially a critical overview of printed and unprinted descriptions of trips to the Holy Land . Leipzig 1879, p. 175. Retrieved July 22, 2017
  7. ↑ 1852. pp. 471–473 with an anastatic copy of the plan of Jerusalem. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
  8. ^ Kurt Guggisberg: Bernische Kirchengeschichte Bern, 1958, p. 640
  9. ↑ Christine Stuber: "Que ce réveil est beau!" - On the Awakening Movement in Bern from 1818 to 1831. In Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 2002/1, p. 11: Auguste Schaffter was one of the most influential people in the Bernese Awakening Movement. Retrieved July 22, 2017. PDF, 2.3 MB
  10. ↑ Nekrolog in: Intellektivenblatt der Stadt Bern August 30, 1861 . Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  11. ↑ lecturers of the University of Bern 1528-1984, number 1.2.001
  12. ^ Adelrich Steinach: History and Life of the Swiss Colonies in the United States of North America. New York, 1889, p. 149: Soon after his ordination in 1846, Dr. Gobat ... to accompany him to the holy city, where he wanted to get him the position of a German chaplain .
  13. ^ Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 1859, p. 69: The appointment as chaplain did not materialize. England insisted on not recognizing an ordination performed in Germany or Switzerland. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  14. ^ Elie Ducommun: Albert Schaffter et la Geographical Society Bern. In: Annual report of the Geographical Society of Bern, 1897, pp. 59–60.
  15. ^ Henri-Louis Moschard (1789-1864)
  16. ↑ James R. Winchester, Necrology: "... he served as pastor the Dutch-German church at Leghorn
  17. ↑ Directory of the Reformed clergy in the canton of Bern and their stations. Bern, 1870. p. 33
  18. ↑ Elie Ducommun: Albert Schaffter ..., p 60 . Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  19. ^ Intelligence Gazette of the City of Bern, February 8th, 1855, p. 320. Query August 4th, 2017.
  20. ^ Louis Edouard Tony André: L'Église évangélique réformée de Florence, depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours, 1899 . Queryed 5.8.2017
  21. Jump up ↑ Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schulttenachen: 1858, 11/12 . The magazine reports: Yesterday the King and Queen stayed in the house of the embassy preacher Dr. Schaffter attended French services at the Reformed Church, where a large congregation had gathered. Queryed August 4, 2017
  22. ^ Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage: Legation Florence (Grand Duchy of Tuscany) after 1807 (inventory). Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  23. ↑ Elie Ducommun: Albert Schaffter ..., p 60 . Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  24. ^ Dictionnaire du Jura: Shepherd Albert . Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  25. ^ Cercle généalogique de l'ancien Evêché de Bâle: Table des mariages - Albert Antoine Amadéé Schaffter with Marguerite Clara Bischoff. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  26. ^ Civil status of Albert Antoine Amédée Schaffter . Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  27. ↑ lecturers of the University of Bern 1528-1984, number 6.1.019
  28. ↑ G. Wissler makes in the annual report on the progress of Romance philology 12, 1913, IV 35, information on the titles of the lectures given by Albert Schaffter
  29. ^ Annual report on the progress of Romance philology 12, 1913, IV 35.
  30. ↑ Peter Pantzer and Matthias Eichhorn: The Iwakura mission: the logbook of Kume Kunitake about the visit of the Japanese special embassy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1873, 2002 . Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  31. ↑ Bibliothèque universelle et revue suisse 30 1867, p. 255: in: Ed. Tallichet: La question d'orient et l'insurrection crétoise, p. 227 ff . Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  32. ↑ Elie Ducommun: Albert Schaffter ..., p 60 . Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  33. ^ Richard Feller: The University of Bern 1834-1934. 1935. p. 319: According to Feller, Albert Schaffter justified the surprising departure with the health of his family, which made it necessary to move to North America.
  34. ↑ Prof. Burt Wilde, of Cornell ... will have charge of ... the scientific interests of the expedition. He will be assisted by Prof. Albert Schaffer, of the University of Berne, Switzerland ... etc . In: The Iola Register, July 14, 1877. Retrieved July 26, 2014
  35. ↑ The Woodruff scientific expedition around the world 1879-1880, 1878. Accessed August 4, 2017.
  36. ^ University of the South, College of Arts and Sciences Catalog and Announcements 1882-83. P. 21 . PDF, 3455 KB. Accessed July 24, 2017
  37. ↑ Annual report of the Geographical Society of Bern Volume (year): 5, p. XIV (1882-1883) . Retrieved September 13, 2018
  38. ^ From the negotiations of the Swiss Federal Council of June 23, 1882: The under May 12 of J. Emil Frei, who was appointed extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of Switzerland in Washington, has informed the Federal Council that he will be his first secretary of the embassy, ​​Dr. Albert Schaffter, former professor at the University of Bern and now landowner in the state of Tennessee. The Federal Council gave its approval to this election and awarded Mr. Schaffter the title and rank of Legation Councilor. Retrieved July 22, 2017. PDF 71 KB
  39. ^ Report of the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on its management in 1883: Dr. Albert Schaffter, Legation Councilor, has resigned and the office business was handled by Mr. Karl Kloß alone. Retrieved July 22, 2017. PDF, 1723 KB.
  40. ^ Elie Ducommun: Albert Schaffter ..., p. 61: According to Elie Ducommun, he resigned to join the management of the Hoffmann Institute in Nashville .
  41. ↑ James R. Winchester, Necrology: For the next five years, until 1890, he resided quietly with his family in Spartanburg SC
  42. ↑ James R. Winchester, Necrology: ... theological institution for colored students for the ministry.
  43. ^ Hoffman Hall, Fisk University , Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  44. ↑ Journal of the sixty-third annual convention, Diocese of Tennessee no. 63-65 (1895-1897), p. 7. Albert Schaffter DD becomes the priest as a clergyman. Hoffmann Hall, who was ordained in 1893. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  45. ↑ Editable text from the First Edition of Beersheba Springs, 150 Years 1833-1983, A History and a Celebration. Written and Edited by Margaret Brown Coppinger et al., P. 24. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  46. ↑ Editable text from the First Edition of Beersheba Springs, 150 Years 1833-1983, A History and a Celebration. Written and Edited by Margaret Brown Coppinger et al., P. 24 .: Miss Grace McKeage, who had been coming to Beersheba from Clarksville for several years, saw the need for a church and had Grace Chapel built. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  47. ↑ Alpina 1894. p. 147.
  48. ↑ His will ("Last will") is available in the Metropolitan Government Archives of Nashville-Davidson County.
  49. ↑ Tomb of Dr Albert Anton Schaffter . Retrieved July 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schaffter, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaffter, Albert Antoine Amadée (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, Romance studies, English studies, geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1897
Place of death Nashville