Carl Camenisch

Carl Camenisch (born April 23, 1874 in Chur ; † 1956 ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and historian .

Life

Carl Camenisch was born in Chur on April 23, 1874. He attended the Bündner canton school there and graduated from high school in 1893 . From 1894 he studied at the University of Heidelberg theology .

On July 27, 1897, Camenisch was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Susch . This was connected with the authorization to work as a pastor in the canton of Graubünden . In 1898 he became a Protestant pastor in Maladers for one year , and in 1899 he began to study history.

In 1901 he became a doctor of philosophy . In 1902 he was appointed professor at the canton school in Chur, where he taught until 1927. He then took on a position as a teacher at the secondary school in Basel. Between 1927 and 1932 Camenisch was director of the Swiss school in Naples . In 1932 he retired. Camenisch died in 1956; the exact circumstances of his death are unknown. The ETH library in Zurich has an extensive collection of his journalistic publications and studies.

Works

• Carlo Borromeo and the Counter-Reformation in the Valtellina with special consideration of the state school in Sondrio (Chur 1901)
• The Rhaetian Railway (Orell Fuessli Verlag, Zurich 1910)
• Englishmen in the Engadine (no year)
• Under the spell of the Alps (Schuler Verlag, Chur 1910)
• Gottfried Keller and Graubünden (Samedan 1919)
• Etruscans and Raetians . In: Engadiner Express 1921
• Graubünden in German poetry (Hassel-Verlag Leipzig 1923)
• The Engadine Museum (Samedan 1910/25)
• Which Bündnerpass did Luther use to travel to Rome? In: Bündnerisches monthly newspaper 1949

literature

• Gion Gaudenz. Dr. Carl Camenisch. La biografia posthuma d'üna hom exceziunel. In: annalas.ch; 1999 edition, p. 199ff. (only in Romansh!)
• Erich Wenneker :  Camenisch, Carl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 255-257.