Caspar Grass

Caspar Grass (born April 8, 1639 in Zernez , † September 15, 1721 in Sarn ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor , theologian and Bible translator .

Life

Caspar Grass was born on April 8, 1639 in Zernez in the canton of Graubünden . It is not known where he received his school education. On April 9, 1657, he enrolled at the University of Basel to study theology , which he presumably did until 1659. On June 2 of the same year he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Davos . He then took over pastoral positions in Flerden , Urmein , Sarn, Portein and Tartar . From 1661 he was only active in Sarn, Portein and Tartar for almost sixty years. He caused a new church to be built in Sarn in 1687 .

Towards the beginning of the 18th century he continued the translation of the Bible into Romansh , which the Triner pastor Peter Saluz had begun. After his brother Otto Grass died, Caspar Grass became Dean of the Upper Confederation and President of the Colloquium in 1713 . Since he was already 73 years old, his cousin Johann Grass Valentin was appointed as his deputy. In the last years of his life his health was so weakened that he was supported in his parish work by his grandson Caspar Riedi .

Caspar Grass died in Sarn on September 15, 1721. Although he left only one work, he is still counted among the most influential Reformed theologians of the Three Leagues in the second half of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century.

plant

• Disputatio theologica de meritis operum . Basel, 1659

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Grass, Caspar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 527-528.
• Johann Leonhard: Guilty, thankful and obedient remembrance of the faith, the change and the end of faithful teachers, who have clearly preached the word of God to us and watched over our souls. Which with the responsibility of the teachers and listeners from the 7th and 17th verses of the 13th chapter of the Send-Brieffs to the Hebrews. On September 15th, 1721. At noon to Purtein am Heintzenberg in Lobl. Gray Covenant in the 83rd year of his age and in the 63rd of his church service blessedly in God asleep, Most Honorable and Honorable Mister Decani and Præsidis, Caspari Johann Grassi very populous and prestigious earth burial in the honorable and Christian churches at Sarn the 17th of September presented simple-minded and with copying a little more extensive (Chur 1722)