Christoph Friedrich Eppler

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Christoph Friedrich Eppler (born July 10, 1822 in Kirchheim unter Teck , † November 20, 1902 in Basel ) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and hymn poet .

Life

Christoph Friedrich Eppler was born on July 10, 1822 in Kirchheim unter Teck ( Württemberg ), the son of a red tanner . Through his mother and grandmother he was introduced to the Gentile mission at an early age . Eppler could not pursue the desire to study theology because his family did not have enough money for it. Since 1837 he was trained at the teachers seminar in Esslingen am Neckar . Then he became a teacher in Haßloch . He became a teacher at the Basler Voranstalt of the mission seminar in 1845 through the mission inspector Wilhelm Hoffmann . He taught there until 1852 and then finally moved to the University of Basel to study theology for four years. Eppler founded a congregation in Arlesheim for the evangelical people living scattered around the diocese of Basel . In 1866 he was finally called to Waldenburg as a pastor and in 1877 to Birsfelden . There he held the position until 1899 and died three years later at the age of 80 in Basel.

Eppler composed the church's baptismal hymn Heiland, accept this child, whom we are now bringing to baptism , wrote an article about the missionary Hermann Gundert for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and wrote a monograph on the missionary Karl Gottlieb Pfander .

Works

  • Savior, accept this child whom we are now bringing to baptism
  • Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, 1801-1874. A figure of peace under the contending church of the present (1875)
  • Leaves and flowers from the tree of life (1881)
  • The Basel councilor Adolf Christ. Drawn from his inner and outer life (1888)
  • Karl Gottlieb Pfander, a witness of the truth among those who profess Islam; looking into the past and present of Mohammedanism; a contribution to the history of missions, Basel: Verl. der Missionsbuchhandlung (1888)
  • Leaves and flowers from the tree of life (revised version, 1899)

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Eppler, Christoph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant theologian and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1902
Place of death Basel