Conrad Wilhelm Kambli

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Conrad Wilhelm Kambli (born January 25, 1829 in Zurich , † September 28, 1914 in Kilchberg ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman .

Life

Conrad Wilhelm Kambli was the son of the master plumber Johann Jakob Kambli and his wife Maria Regula (née Ott), an orphan from Zurich.

He attended high school in Zurich and enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1847 and studied at the theological faculty ; he later continued his studies at the University of Berlin until 1850 .

In 1850 he was ordained and from 1851 to 1853 he was vicar in Wetzikon until he became pastor in Illnau in 1853 . After ten years he became a pastor at the Reformed Church in Horgen and stayed there until 1884. From 1888 to 1895 he was director of the Stapferheim , which was founded in 1988 by Julius Stapfer-von Froben.

From 1885 to 1905 he was pastor at the Church of St. Laurenzen in St. Gallen and was dean during this time in 1894 . In 1905 he gave up the pastor's office.

Conrad Wilhelm Kambli was married to Susette (née Thurnheer) from Illnau since 1855.

Spiritual and literary work

Conrad Wilhelm Kambli was theologically part of the reform movement and was a friend of Alois Emanuel Biedermann . He published numerous works and showed a keen interest in social and economic theory and practice. He rejected the idea of ​​a specifically Christian economic system, but called for a Christian-motivated social and economic ethics .

In 1884 he campaigned in the Zurich non-profit organization for the health insurance companies to be obliged to provide care for the poor.

In his work Gottfried Keller after his position on religion and Christianity, church, theology and clergy , he criticized the ending of Gottfried Keller's Romeo and Juliet in the village as " cynical " and the Green Henry as too revealing .

Trivia

In Gottfried Keller's novella The Lost Laughing , Conrad Wilhelm Kambli suspected that the author merged the theologians Heinrich Lang and himself into the “pastor of Schwanau”. This prompted him to examine Gottfried Keller in a paper.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The relationship between civil and territorial poor relief. J. Herzog, Zurich 1874.
  • with Antonio Barzaghi-Cattaneo , J. Ganz: The fresco paintings in the Reformed church in Horgen on Lake Zurich. Zurich 1875.
  • The social ideas of Christianity and their utilization in the struggles of the present. Zurich 1878.
  • The importance of religion for youth education. Zollikofer, St. Gallen 1878.
  • The miracle stories in the Gospels. Herzog, Zurich 1879.
  • Property in the light of the gospel. Frankfurt am Main, 1882.
  • The role of women in contemporary religious and social struggles. TT Schläpfer, Horgen 1883.
  • Pious and free: A contribution on the path of life for thinking young people and men. C. Schmidt, Zurich 1884.
  • The social parties and our position on them. St. Gallen 1887.
  • Luxury according to its moral and social significance. Frauenfeld, 1890.
  • Gottfried Keller according to his position on religion and Christianity, church, theology and clergy. 1891.
  • The moral and social limits of charity. Kasselbrink, St. Gallen 1892.
  • The moral meaning of belief in immortality. Fehr'schen Buchhandlung publishing house, St. Gallen 1893.
  • The poor system in the city of St. Gallen. H. Müller, Basel 1895.
  • The position of free-thinking Protestantism towards socialism and towards the Christian-social or evangelical-social party. Bern 1895
  • David Friedrich Strauss. 1896.
  • Voices of free Christianity from Switzerland. Frick, Zurich, 1898.
  • Art and life in their interaction with one another. Huber, Frauenfeld 1905.
  • Christ and Christianity depicted in sermons. Verlag der Fehr'schen Buchhandlung, St. Gallen 1905.
  • with Auguste Forel : The sexual question and its answer. Aug. Frick, Zurich 1906.
  • What can we Protestant educators not learn from the Roman Church? A. Schaufelberger, Zurich 1907.
  • Christianity and Social Movement. 1908.
  • Protestant and Catholic upbringing and character building. AW Zickefeldt, Osterwieck-Harz 1909.
  • Gustav Adolf Saxer, former Landammann: A picture of life. Fehr, St. Gallen 1910.

literature

  • Conrad Wilhelm Kambli. In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 3. Leipzig 1913.
  • Wilhelm Kambli: Conrad Wilhelm Kambli, pastor and dean: A picture of life. A. Maeder Sons, Lichtensteig 1918.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kar! Marquardt: From the emergency room to the modern hospital. In: Horgner Jahrheft 1993. Retrieved on February 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ Portrait archive FZS Julius Stapfer-von Froben Horgen. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  3. Michaela Maurer, Bernhard Schneider: Denominations in the West and Central European social systems in the long 19th century: a “noble competition of mercy”? LIT Verlag Münster, 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12003-8 ( google.de [accessed on February 15, 2020]).
  4. Lukas Vischer, Rudolf Dellsperger: Ecumenical Church History of Switzerland . Saint-Paul, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7228-0417-0 ( google.de [accessed February 15, 2020]).
  5. ^ Emidio Campi, Ralph Kunz, Christian Moser: Alexander Schweizer (1808-1888) and his time . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-17493-4 ( google.de [accessed on February 15, 2020]).
  6. ^ Rudolf Pfister : Robert Barth, Protestantism, social question and socialism in the Canton of Zurich 1830–1914, Zurich 1981 (publications by the Institute for Social Ethics at the University of Zurich 8) . In: Zwingliana . tape 15 , no. 8 , January 1, 2010, ISSN  0254-4407 , p. 684–688 ( zwingliana.ch [accessed February 15, 2020]).
  7. ^ Rainer Würgau: The divorce process of Gottfried Keller's mother: Theses against Adolf Muschg and Gerhard Kaiser . Walter de Gruyter, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-091387-3 ( google.de [accessed on February 15, 2020]).
  8. The lost laugh (1874) / by Gottfried Keller. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  9. Keller, Böhler, Charbon: The people of Seldwyla: stories from Gottfried Keller . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-0348-6495-4 ( google.de [accessed on February 15, 2020]).