Dora Rappard
Dora Rappard , née Dora Gobat (born September 1, 1842 in Malta , † October 10, 1923 in St. Chrischona ) was a Swiss missionary and Protestant hymn poet .
Life
She was the daughter of the future bishop of Jerusalem , Samuel Gobat , and his wife Maria, who in turn was the daughter of Christian Heinrich Zeller , the founder of the Beuggen establishment . She grew up in a pious family and had a happy childhood. A meningitis at a young age, from which it recovered but again, caused her in later years repeatedly headaches .
She received four years of training at the daughter boarding school of the Brethren in Montmirail . Here she met the Englishwoman Florence Barker and through her a life of faith with Jesus Christ. Through her parents' house in Jerusalem she met many people and was able to significantly broaden her horizons. The mission field was well known to them. However, she contracted a larynx disease and therefore had to give up service in her father's girls' school.
Marriage and service
In 1867 she met Carl Heinrich Rappard , who was in charge of the mission station of the St. Chrischona pilgrim mission in Alexandria . They married that same year and had a good marriage for 42 years. They had ten children together, two of whom died at a young age. When her husband accepted a call as an inspector in St. Chrischona, she became the institutional mother of the pilgrim mission. Here she served for decades. She also became known through the song "O du Lamm Gottes".
Works
- Happy old man
- Through Suffering to Glory, 1916
- Light Traces: Memories from My Life, 1914
- Community songs, 1875, together with Carl Heinrich Rappard
- Songs of Faith, 1875, together with Carl Heinrich Rappard
Known songs
- I look into the sea of his grace with bending and amazement
- It is eternally agreed that Jesus will win
- Do you have a burden of worry (Community hymn book [GL] Jesus Our Joy , No. 413 - text)
- I will trust in your word (GL, No. 159 - text)
- Safe in Jesus' arms (GL, No. 400 - text) and others
literature
- Werner Raupp : Rappard, Dora. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Emmy Veiel-Rappard: Mother - Pictures from the life of Dora Rappard-Gobat ; Giessen, Basel: 1929
- Friedhelm Rudersdorf: Dora Rappard - The mother of St. Chrischona, Volume 103/104 from the collection "Witnesses of the Present God", Brunnen: 1956
- Friedrich Hauss: Fathers of Christianity ; Wuppertal: 1973
- Lothar von Seltmann: Dora, the bishop's daughter: The exciting life of Dora Rappard ; Well: 2005
- Burkard mug : RAPPARD, b. Gobat, Dora. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1362.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dora Rappard in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rappard, Dora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gobat, Dora (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss missionary and evangelical hymn poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malta |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1923 |
| Place of death | St. Chrischona |