Johann Baptist Cattaneo

Johann Baptist Cattaneo (born June 27, 1745 in Lavin ; † January 16, 1831 in Norka ) was a Reformed pastor from Switzerland .

Life

Johann Baptist Cattaneo was born on June 27, 1745 in Lavin in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . His father was the carpenter Tumasch Cattaneo and his mother was Ursula Cattaneo. Johann Cattaneo attended the village school. When his father died in 1755, he was raised by the pastor Sebastian Secca and later by his uncle Peter a Porta. At the University of Zurich in 1765/1766 he studied not only theology but also surgery .

On June 26, 1766, he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Susch and was thus authorized to exercise a reformed pastoral office in Graubünden. The next year he became a pastor in Fläsch . In 1771, after a dispute, he moved to the small community of Schuders . Because the wages for this job were too low, Johann Cattaneo moved to St. Antönien as early as 1772 and was elected pastor there, where he stayed until 1784,

In February 1784 he was offered a job in Norka, a city on the Volga in Russia. On April 1, 1784, he traveled to Barby , where he stayed a little longer. On June 9th he arrived in St. Petersburg , on June 26th he traveled on to Moscow and from there via Saratov back to Norka, where he arrived on August 3rd, 1784. At times he also worked as a surgeon in Norka. He stayed there until his death on January 16, 1831.

Works

• A journey through Germany and Russia described to his friends (Chur 1787)
• Journey through Germany and Russia (Ulm 1788)

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Cattaneo, Johann Baptist. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 404-407.
• Gottlieb Bauer: History of the German Settlers on the Volga from their Immigration to Russia to the Introduction of General Conscription (1766-1874) (Saratow 1908)
• Gottlieb Beratz: The German Colonists on the Lower Volga in Their Origin and First Development (Berlin 1923)