Bartholomew Grass

Bartholomäus Grass (* 1743 in Lavin ; † October 5, 1815 in Chur ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and school reformer .

Life

Bartholomäus Grass, born in 1743 in Lavin ( Canton of Graubünden ), initially worked as a private tutor in Chiavenna and then studied theology at both the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Basel . He was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod on June 26, 1766. Although this gave him permission to work as a pastor, he devoted himself to the activity of private tutor in Verona in the first few months after taking up the activity . In 1767 he finally used the permit and became a pastor in his home parish, but the following year he decided to take up an apprenticeship in Haldenstein . In 1771 the school moved to Marschlins and Grass tried to succeed the pedagogue Martin Planta . Planta's comrade Johann Peter Nesemann criticized his successor , but Planta's brother Andreas Planta settled the dispute. Nevertheless, Nesemann gave up his activity. Grass had also left school in the meantime, presumably because he did not agree to the school being converted into a philanthropist . For a short time he was an employee of a private Nesemann school in Chur. There he soon taught at the Latin school . He was also the successor of Paul the Elder , head of the city schools. In 1779 he developed a system of school reformation in Chur together with Andreas von Salis-Rietberg and Leonhard Usterei-von Muralt . Presumably because of the city's resistance to the reform, Grass asked for his discharge from the school on January 30, 1780. Nevertheless, he was also a substitute teacher at the city school several times; However, he spent the years 1782 to 1801 in Trieste , where he was also pastor from time to time. Around 1790 he worked again as a private teacher, but then returned to Trieste as a pastor. In 1802 he returned to Chur to work as a free preacher there. When the Evangelical Cantonal School was founded two years later , he taught both theology and the Italian language there . In the previous year he had been elected Dean of the Church of Gods Association. He held the latter office until he died in Chur on October 5, 1815.

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Grass, Bartholomäus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 596-599.
• Johann Heinrich Schällibaum : History of the Graubünden Protestant canton school from its creation to the year 1830. Supplement to the program of the Bündner Kantonsschule 1858. Pargätzi & Felix, Chur 1858, OCLC 39491715 .