Friedrich Gerber (clergyman)

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Friedrich Gerber , also Fritz Gerber (born February 14, 1828 in Gsteig ; † July 5, 1905 in Bern ), from Eggiwil , was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and educator .

Life

Friedrich Gerber was the son of the pastor Johann Rudolf Gerber von Eggiwil . From 1838 he attended the boys' institution in Korntal and the grammar school (today: grammar school Kirchenfeld ) in Bern . 1846 enrolled him at the University of Bern and began studying theology, he at the University of Halle continued, there he was by the lectures of the revival theologians August Tholuck strongly influenced.

After completing his studies, he was among other things vicar in Aarwangen from 1850 to 1855 . There he founded a private high school in 1854, because he saw that there were students who had the skills to study, but could not attend high school with the completion of the Matura from financial means ; the first class took place in his private room. After more and more students registered, he suggested the establishment of a literary school at the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern and found the necessary support so that on July 24, 1854 the institution could be opened in a chamber in the barn of Aarwangen Castle . In the following year, a seminar department for the training of teachers was attached.

The pastor of Aarwangen died in 1855 and the local population wanted Friedrich Gerber as their successor, but he was too pious to the local personalities so that he was not confirmed as pastor; at that time the population only had the right to propose. At the same time, the Greek teacher Theodor von Lerber was dismissed from the high school in Bern because of his pietistic views. With this, Friedrich Gerber decided to move the school into a building belonging to Eduard von Wattenwyl's family in Diessbach near Büren ; the school was initially called the pension of the gentlemen von Lerber and Gerber in Bern . The school business was headed by von Lerber, while Gerber was in charge of the school, who had meanwhile also become vicar at the Bern Minster . The school was later relocated to Muristalden and after the teaching institution had become a branch of the Evangelical Society as the Muristalden Evangelical Teachers' Seminar in 1860 (today: Campus Muristalden ), the literary school was separated, from which the free grammar school , which still exists today, was created .

In 1860 he founded the Swiss Baden Conference and on June 22, 1863 in Bern the Evangelical School Association as a Christian teachers' association ; the cantonal association adopted its own statutes on May 28, 1868, and in 1881 the Evangelical School Association of Switzerland was founded. He also initiated the establishment of the Basel Preacher School in 1876 .

For decades he was a leader in the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern . From 1863 to 1869 the pastor was at the Nydeggkirche . Friedrich Gerber was married to Sophie (née Perret) since 1855.

Memberships

Friedrich Gerber was, like Theodor von Lerber, a member of the Swiss Zofinger Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Peter Henzi: Stand speech. Printed by C. Rätzer, Bern 1856.
  • Minimum and maximum: two poems for friends and enemies. Bern 1872.
  • Three pearls: a folk writing by the author of the "Flachstüchlein". Basel 1875.
  • Fifty years of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern: an anniversary greeting to its members and friends. CF Spittler, Basel 1881.
  • All sorts of things for ordinary people: A gift to the bazaar for the Evangelical Seminary on Muristalden. Wyss, Bern 1884.
  • Eduard von Wattenwyl. Bern 1890.
  • What my flatlet told me. Basel 1896.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lerber, Theodor von. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ Campus Muristalden | History. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Philipp Bandi: The model school of the Protestant seminary Muristalden in Bern, p. 20 f. 2007, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  4. ^ V Evang. School Association Archive of the Evangelical School Association, 1863-1976 (inventory). Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ Benedikt Bietenhard: Free High School Bern 1859 - 2009, 150 years of school history. Free High School Bern, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerber, F .; Gerber, Friedrich Gottlieb; Gerber, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Gsteig
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1905
Place of death Bern