Johann-Conrad Appenzeller

Johann-Conrad Appenzeller (born November 27, 1775 in Bern , † March 28, 1850 in Biel ) was a Reformed pastor and popular writer in Switzerland .

Life

When he was ten years old, his family moved to St. Gallen , where he attended the city school. He had to drop out of a theology course he had started, became a supporter of the French Revolution and worked from 1799 to 1809 as a teacher at the city school of Winterthur . At the same time he continued his theology studies autodidactically and in 1809 became a pastor in Brütten . In 1817 he moved to the newly founded high school in Biel as the rector, and in 1818 he also became the city pastor. Appenzeller was an employee of the folkloric almanac Alpenrosen founded in 1811 by Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn together with Johann Rudolf Wyss and Ludwig Meisner . He is editor of the works of Susanna Ronus (pseudonym "Selma").

Letters, diaries, poems and travelogues can be found in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library .

literature

• Alfred Zäch:  Appenzeller, Johann Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 330 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Johann-Conrad Appenzeller  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johann-Conrad Appenzeller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Johann-Conrad Appenzeller in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Publications by and about Johann-Conrad Appenzeller in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Christoph Zürcher: Appenzeller, Johann Conrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ruedi Graf: Alpine roses. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Link to the list of personal papers of the Zurich Central Library