David Christoph Huber

David Christoph Huber (born March 8, 1777 in St. Gallen ; † December 5, 1836 there ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

David Christoph Huber was born as the third child of Christian Huber (* unknown; † 1794), a preacher in St. Gallen.

Originally he wanted to become a bookbinder , but his uncle, who took him in after his father's death, the parish priest Georg Kaspar Scherrer (1757-1821), influenced him to become a clergyman in order to maintain this status, which had been in existence for five generations the family insisted to continue.

He attended the grammar school in St. Gallen, which had a chair in theology , and at the beginning of 1798 received the position of cantor in the French church and a little later at the same time the position of cantor in the main German church St. Laurenzen .

He passed his theological exam on April 26, 1799 and received his ordination on May 3 of the same year . Shortly afterwards, on June 29, 1799, he became a mountain pastor in the Tägerschen parish in the Toggenburg valley . In September 1801 he was called back to St. Gallen by the school council and the teaching position of the fifth grade of the grammar school was transferred to him, connected with the parish of Linsebühl ; at the same time he was elected catechist of St. Leonhard's Church and soon afterwards became the singing teacher there. In 1804 he made an exchange between the catechesis of St. Leonhard and the one in Linsebühl. In the spring of 1805 he voluntarily moved from his position at the grammar school to the new school facility of the second primary school. On June 10, 1805 he was elected pastor in Bernang (today: Berneck ) in the Rhine Valley and in August 1809 as actuary of the Rhine Valley chapter. On May 25, 1813, the local council gave him the second pastor's post in St. Leonhard. On July 6, 1813, he became a member of the Audit Committee and on July 7, 1813, its actuary. On August 31, 1813, the school board gave him the third and fourth primary school at the grammar school, at the same time he retained his pastor. In 1816 he became an actuary of the synod of the Protestant canton church council and the chapter of St. Gallen and in May 1820 a catechist in the St. Magnus Church and in March 1822 registrar in the city library and member of the city church council.

On July 2, 1822, he was elected to the church council. When the public teaching institutions in St. Gallen were restructured at the end of 1823, on December 20, 1823, he was appointed head of all primary schools and became one of their top-class teachers while retaining his pastor's position. In June 1824 he became registrar and actuary of the city library and remained so until 1828. In 1828 he was again confirmed as a councilor for six years.

In 1834 the canton of St. Gallen was reorganized politically. In the capital, the parish and school posts were separated, which led to half of the preacher's posts being dissolved in order to better organize and pay for those that still existed. The Church of St. Leonhard also lost a pastor, so that he was left alone after he was appointed its chief pastor on March 2, 1834 by the assembled community . He then resigned from his school and settled in his parish church . In the summer of 1834 he was appointed a member of the school council by the town council.

David Christoph Huber also worked as a prison preacher in St. Gallen.

At the end of 1799 he married Elisabeth Zollikofer von Altenklingen (* unknown; † January 1801) from St. Gallen. In September 1801 he married Maria Barbara, a daughter of councilor Kaltschmidt from Lindau, for the second time. He left behind a son who also belonged to the clergy in St. Gallen.

Memberships

David Christoph Huber was a member of the Scientific Association, the St. Gallen Aid Association and the preacher's widow's fund of the Protestant cantonal clergy.

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Christoph Huber. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 15th year, 1837, 1st part, B. F. Voigt, 1839, pp. 34–37.
2. ^ August Naef: St. Leonhard. In: Chronicle, or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. Schultheß Scheitlin, 1850, p. 565.
3. ^ David Christoph Huber. In: Yearbooks of the City of St. Gallen. 1823/27. 1824, p. 28.