Eduard Bähler
Eduard Bähler (born June 14, 1870 in Biel , † May 26, 1925 in Gampelen ) was a Reformed theologian from Switzerland .
In 1895 he became pastor in Thierachern and in 1914 in Gampelen , where he was also responsible for pastoral care in the Witzwil and St. Johannsen penal institutions . In 1912 he became an associate professor for church history at the University of Bern .
His main research interests were the Reformation in Bern and western Switzerland and the history of the Huguenot religious refugees.
In 1912 Bähler received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne . His estate is kept in the Bern Burger Library.
According to Kurt Guggisberg , Bähler seemed “gifted with an absolute historical conscience, which can be just as good as an absolute ear for music”.
Fonts
- Experiences and effectiveness of the preacher Johann Haller in Augsburg at the time of the Narrow Kaldic War . In: Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Geschichte 2 (1922), no. 1, pp. 1–69, doi : 10.5169 / seals-65848
- Cultural images from the refugee period in Bern (1685-1699) , Bern 1908
- Jean Le Comte de la Croix, reformer à Grandson. Contribution à l'histoire de la Réformation dans la Suisse romande , Lausanne 1912
- Nikolaus Zurkinden of Bern 1506-1588. A representative of tolerance in the century of the Reformation , Zurich 1912
literature
- Rudolf Dellsperger : Bähler, Eduard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- H. Thürler, Eduard Bähler (obituary). In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1926 31 (1925) 209-219 (with scripts), online
Web links
- Publications by and about Eduard Bähler (1870-1925) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bähler, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Reformed theologian and church historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biel |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1925 |
| Place of death | Gampelen |