Christian Bavier

Christian Bavier (born January 9, 1767 in Chur ; † 1837 ibid) was a Swiss Reformed theologian .

Life

Christian Bavier was born on January 9, 1767 as the son of an old, important family in Chur and attended schools there. After 1786 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen . In 1788 he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Jenins . In the same year he became a field chaplain . When he returned in 1791, he became a free preacher and catechist in Chur .

After the occupation of Graubünden by Austria in 1799, Bavier was brought to Innsbruck as one of a total of 80 hostages and from there later to Graz . He was released after two years of imprisonment. His health suffered badly while in detention, but he tried to give pastoral care to the other prisoners. In 1802 he became pastor of the Martinskirche in Chur.

In 1809 he left Chur and was elected pastor in St. Gallen . He held this position until 1836 when he retired. He spent this in Chur, where he died in 1837.

Works

• Drey deportation speeches along with some other small essays ( Ulm 1802)
• The beautiful and free Switzerland. A word to my fatherland (Chur 1814)
• Inscription on Zwingli's hut, to Wildenhaus in Toggenburg. In addition to a speech on the question: What is religion? (Chur 1818)

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Bavier, Christian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 100-101.
• Fritz Jecklin : The Collegium philosophicum in Chur and its students in: Bündnerisches Monatsblatt (1914; pages 165-186)