Anna Schlatter-Bernet

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Anna Schlatter , b. Bernet (born November 5, 1773 in St. Gallen ; † February 25, 1826 there ) was a Swiss lay theologian and author. She played an important role in the revival movement .

Life

Anna Bernet came from an influential St. Gallen family. Her grandfather Hans Kaspar Bernet was the ruling mayor from 1752 to 1764; her father was the manufacturer and councilor Caspar Bernet. In 1794 she married the recently widowed businessman Hector Schlatter, with whom she had 13 children and whom she supported as a capable business woman. Coined by Johann Kaspar Lavater , she also developed extensive charitable work in the spirit of the revival movement. She founded the first women's association in St. Gallen and established an extensive communication network through letters, hospitality and occasional trips. She corresponded not only with personalities of the revival movement such as Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling , Juliane von Krüdener and Christian Friedrich Spittler as well as the Duchess Henriette von Württemberg , but also with liberal theologians such as Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette . Its non-denominational breadth is also evident in the close relationships with the Catholic Allgäu awakening movement . B. to Johannes Goßner and Martin Boos . She tried to support him in letters to two canons who were jointly responsible for his imprisonment in Linz. Their statements carefully showed differences compared to a narrow confessional attitude. So when she explained her own attitude:

I have “always made it my duty to serve Catholics and Protestants alike, with advice, help and consolation wherever I can, without asking: Which church do you belong to? Just what do you need? And can I help? "

She also alluded to the inquisitorial disregard of the confidentiality of letters by the ecclesiastical court in Linz:

"Born and raised in a free country and in a church where there is never any question of compulsion, correspondence or investigation, I had no idea that my letters might one day end up in the hands of anyone other than my fatherly friend."

The Catholic moral theologian and later bishop Johann Michael Sailer spent several holidays in her house.

In addition to numerous letters, Anna Schlatter also wrote biblical reflections, poems and hymns as well as a marriage guide for her daughters. Most of the works were published by her son-in-law Franz Ludwig Zahn and her grandson Franz Michael Zahn after her death . Her grandchildren also included the evangelical cathedral preacher Adolph Zahn from Halle and the New Testament scholar Theodor Zahn as well as Adolf Schlatter , the pedagogue Johannes Zahn and the writer Dora Schlatter .

Fonts

  • Anna Schlatter's written estate / for her relatives and Friends ed. by Franz Ludwig Zahn. Meurs: Rheinische Schulbuchhandlung, 1835.
Vol. 1: Poems .
Vol. 2: Smaller essays .
  • Anna Schlatter's life and estate . Published by Franz Michael Zahn.
Vol. 1: Lives and letters to their children . Elberfeld [1864] digitized .
Vol. 2: Letters to her friends . Bremen: Valett, 1865.
Vol. 3: Poems and smaller essays . Bremen: Valett, 1865 digitized .
  • Anna Schlatter's marriage booklet: A celebration for the bride and groom . Elberfeld 1868.
  • Women's letters / from Anna Schlatter, Wilhelmine von der Heydt and Kleophea Zahn . Edited by Adolph Zahn . Halle, Fricke, 1862 (3rd edition 1875)
  • Eternity into time shine brightly in! From their letters . Zurich: Gotthelf, 1951.
  • Anna Schlatter's travelogue on centers of awakening. Observations by a Swiss woman in Germany . In: Martin H. Jung: Successors, visionaries, church critics. Studies of theology and the history of piety on Pietism . Leipzig 2003, pp. 219-264.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Albrecht Ritschl : History of Pietism. Vol. 1: Pietism in the Reformed Church . Bonn 1880, pp. 541-564.
  • Johannes Ninck: Anna Schlatter and her children . Leipzig / Hamburg 1934.
  • Peter Zimmerling : Strong pious women. Encounters with Erdmuthe von Zinzendorf, Juliane von Krüdener, Anna Schlatter, Friederike Fliedner, Dora Rappard-Gobat, Eva von Tiele-Winckler, Ruth von Kleist-Retzow . Gießen / Basel, Brunnen, 1996, 3rd edition 1999.
  • Marianne Jehle-Wildberger: Anna Schlatter-Bernet (1773-1826). A cosmopolitan St. Gallen Christian . St. Gallen 2003.
  • Hans Hermann Fries:  Schlatter-Bernet, Anna. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 1284-1286.
  • Martin H. Jung : Anna Schlatter's trip to Germany in 1821. Observations and experiences of an awakened Swiss woman in Wuppertal and Württemberg . In: Gudrun Litz, Heidrun Munzert, Roland Liebenberg (eds.): Piety, Theologie, Piety Theology: Contributions to European Church History: Festschrift for Berndt Hamm on his 60th birthday . Leiden, Brill, 2005 (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 124), pp. 689–705.
  • Rudolf Gebhard: Anna Schlatter-Bernet (1773-1826). Pastoral care in the area of ​​ecumenism . In: Peter Zimmerling (ed.): Evangelical pastors - biographical sketches . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, pp. 142–157.
  • Marianne Jehle-Wildberger: Between canonization and domestication. Anna Schlatter-Bernet (1773-1826) . In: Ulrike Gleixner, Erika Hebeisen (ed.): Gendering Tradition. Culture of Remembrance and Gender in Pietism . Korb 2007, pp. 47–66.
  • Rudolf Gebhard: Awakening Spirituality - Anna Schlatter-Bernet (1773-1826) . In: Peter Zimmerling (Hrsg.): Handbook Evangelical Spirituality , Vol. 1: History . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-56719-7 , pp. 567-587.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Two excerpts from a letter dated Aug. 1, 1815. See Johannes Goßner (ed.): Martin Boos, the preacher of the justice that applies before God. His autobiography , new ed. by Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer . Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2012, p. 368 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schlatter-Bernet, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anna Schlatter; Anna Bernet (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lay theologian and author, leader of the revival movement
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1826
Place of death St. Gallen