Andreas Battier

Andreas Battier (born November 2, 1757 in Basel ; † April 9, 1793 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and pietist .

Life

Andreas Battier was the son of Emanuel Battier (1727–1797), a conductor in the Petersstift and city governor in Basel and his wife Anna Barbara Zwinger (1735–1809).

He studied theology at the University of Basel , was accepted as a candidate in 1778 and was pastor at the Basel orphanage from 1779 to 1782 , pastor in Binningen from 1782 to 1789 and from 1789, first as an assistant, then as a pastor until his death in 1793, at the St. Leonhard Church in Basel.

He was considered a decisive representative of Moravian theology and piety and triggered a religious awakening among young people in Binningen in 1784 .

Andreas Battier was married to Elisabeth Anna (1754–1795), daughter of the merchant and councilor Johann Zaeslin, from 1779 ; together they had eight daughters who entered the daughters' pension of the Moravian Brethren in Montmirail and a son who died shortly after birth.

Spiritual work

His sermons on freely chosen texts , published posthumously in 1794 , are among the most successful collections of sermons of Pietism in Basel.

Fonts (selection)

Jakob Bürgi; Andreas Heusler; Josias Märckt; Johann Georg Holzach ; Andreas Battier; Johann Jakob Thurneysen: Conversation about the origin, progress, and various fates of the Jesuit order: held on the occasion of the autumn promotion of the pupils to the castle in Basel, in the year after the birth of Christ MDCCLXVIII . Basel, Johann Jakob Thurneysen 1768.
Werner Alois Weber; Andreas Battier; Johann Jakob Hess ; Leonhard Meister : Collection of songs and other pieces that were published for the federal auxiliary troops and on the occasion of their move to Basel . Basel: Freyler, 1792.
Sermon about unity according to Psalm 133: on the occasion of the billeting of the Commonwealth of Nations troops in Bassel, held on June 10th 1792 . Basel: Johann Jakob Flick, 1792.
Sermons on freely chosen texts . Basel 1794.

Web links

Ulrich Gäbler: Andreas Battier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Andreas Battier . In: Digital portrait index .

Individual evidence

^ Swiss monthly chronicle . JJ Ulrich., 1778 ( google.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).
^ Heinrich I. Weiss: Attempt of a small and weak description of the churches and monasteries in the city and landscape of Basel together with the same teachers and rulers in chronological order . S. 62. Schneider, 1834 ( google.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).
↑ Sara Aebi: Upbringing and Mission: The Daughter Pension of the Moravian Brethren in Montmirail in the 18th century . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50358-1 ( google.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).
^ Excerpt from the Battier family. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Battier, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Protestant clergyman and pietist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1793
Place of death	Basel

[1] Swiss monthly chronicle . JJ Ulrich., 1778 ( google.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).

[2] Heinrich I. Weiss: Attempt of a small and weak description of the churches and monasteries in the city and landscape of Basel together with the same teachers and rulers in chronological order . S. 62. Schneider, 1834 ( google.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).

[3] Sara Aebi: Upbringing and Mission: The Daughter Pension of the Moravian Brethren in Montmirail in the 18th century . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50358-1 ( google.de [accessed October 18, 2019]).

[4] Excerpt from the Battier family. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .