Georg Leonhardi

Georg Leonhardi (born December 10, 1807 in Schwanden , † May 4, 1884 in Poschiavo ; resident in Filisur ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor .

Life

Georg Leonhardi, born in Schwanden in the canton of Glarus on December 10, 1807, studied theology at the University of Basel and was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Ilanz on June 20, 1830 . This gave him the right to work as a pastor in Graubünden; so he initially took over the community in Saas in Prättigau . Seven years later he took over the parish in Castasegna , which he held until 1840; that year he moved to Azmoos . After six years there, he returned to Graubünden and took over the pastor's position in Poschiavo , before moving to Brusio in 1855 . He held the position there until 1883. The following year he died on May 4th.

Works

• Rhaetian customs and traditions. Fragments from unprinted travelogues (St. Gallen 1844)
• Christian Gutmann or: Stay in the country and nourish yourself honestly / ingratitude is the world's reward. Two stories (St. Gallen 1848)
• Quarterly for the reformed Bündnervolk 1.-3. Year (Chur 1849-1851)
• The Poschiavino valley. Images from nature and popular life. A Contribution to Knowledge of Italian Switzerland (Leipzig 1859)
• Knight Johann von Guler von Weineck. Life picture of a Rhaetian from the seventeenth century (Bern 1863)

literature

• Martin Bundi: Leonhardi, Georg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Erich Wenneker :  Leonhardi, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 891-892.