Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter

Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter

Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter (born July 2, 1887 in Thun , Switzerland , † March 30, 1941 in Bern ) was a Swiss Christian writer .

Life

Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter was the second daughter of Franz Eugen Schlachter , the translator of the miniature Bible and revival preacher of the Evangelical Society in Bern and Biel and the Free Evangelical Congregation in Bern. In Biel, where she grew up, she experienced a sheltered childhood together with an older sister and two younger brothers and inherited her father's talent for writing.

As a trained kindergarten teacher, she founded a private kindergarten in Bern at a young age . a. worked as governess in England and Rome . She was multilingual. At the age of 31 she married the widower Gotthilf Baumann, teacher and Dr. phil. After the marriage, she took care of his three orphaned daughters and their son, Franz Baumann. In her work Das Ehebüchlein Baumann-Schlachter deals with marriage in a poetic and pastoral way. In 1941, at the age of 54, she died, like her father, of a stomach ailment.

Baumann-Schlachter published a total of 28 writings - a marriage book, Christmas verses, children's books, stories and consolation books . She wrote some of her works in the Bernese dialect. In Wunderwege we find short stories and a short personal introduction in which she tells an incident from her sheltered childhood with her father Franz Eugen Schlachter .

Works

• Neui bärndütschi Wiehnachts-Gedichtli for Chinder , 1911
• No meh Wiehnachts-Gedichtli , 1913
• What Chinder a family business can saw and do , 1913
• The Chlyne Patriote. Soldateliedli and Värsli zur Gränzbsetzig , 1914
• Allergattig Värsli for the Chlyne , 1916
• Mys Wiehnachtssprüchli i der bad Zyt , 1917
• Sunne i ds Härz! Neui Värsli and Liedli , 1920
• Christmas for young and old , 1921
• En Osterhase-Gschicht i Värse , 1922
• Christmas light. Verses and Performances , 1926
• The Worry Book , 1930
• The mother booklet , 1931
• That's new to you Värsli , 1932
• From Christmas light and joy. Verse , 1933
• The marriage booklet , 1934
• Wei mer öppis üffüehre Wiehnachtsstückli for Groß and Chly , 1934
• The Pleasure and Burden of Parents , 1936
• We're celebrating Christmas! All sorts of verses for young and old , 1937
• Wunderwege , 1938
• Bärnergmüet , 1938
• Prayer booklet for children and those who teach them to pray , 1939
• Wott Wiehnachtsvärsli? , 1941
• Rolf and Peter are on duty. Story , 1942
• The gypsy; The lame Brigittli. Two stories , 1942
• The little Bajass from Flurwylen. Story , 1943
• Bärenwirt's Röbeli and the child of God , 1955
• Do not worry! History of joy and sorrow , 1947/1978
• Christmas verses for young and old

literature

• Karl-Hermann Kauffmann: Franz Eugen Schlachter, a Bible translator in the context of the sanctification movement , Verlag Johannis, Lahr 2007, ISBN 978-3-501-01568-1
• Karl-Hermann Kauffmann: Franz Eugen Schlachter and the sanctification movement , biography with reference to the spiritual environment of Schlachter and with a short history of the Schlachter Bible, detailed version with 100 illustrations. Commemorative publication for the anniversary «100 Years of the Schlachter Bible». Self-published by Freie Brüdergemeinde, Albstadt 2005, Brosamen-Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046811-7