Johann Konrad Zellweger

Johann Konrad Zellweger (born December 4, 1801 in Teufen ; † June 1, 1883 in Gais ; resident in Trogen ) was a Swiss educator and school inspector from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Johann Konrad Zellweger was a son of Adrian Zellweger, Weber, and Katharina Gähler. In 1825 he married Anna Madgalena Locher, a daughter of Michel Locher. After the death of his father in 1802, Zellweger grew up in the poor house in Trogen. In 1813 he returned to his mother in Speicher and joined Johann Caspar Zellweger's spinning factory . This enabled him to train as a poor teacher in the Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg institution in Hofwil . There he was a student of Johann Jakob Wehrli from 1817 to 1823 . From 1824 to 1851, Zellweger headed the newly founded Schurtanne school for the poor in Trogen. He founded his own educational institute in Gais auf der Rieseren and was appointed seminary director by the Grand Council in 1852. He held this office until 1866. He also worked as a school inspector until 1872. Zellweger was a member of the state school commission and chairman of the cantonal teachers' conference and the association of Swiss educators for the poor .

literature

• Johann Konrad Zellweger: The canton of Appenzell: country, people and their history up to the present. Trogen: J. Schläpfer 1867.
• Walter Schläpfer: Appenzell history. Edited by the government council of the canton of Appenzell Appenzell Ausserrhoden Volume 2. Herisau, Appenzell 1972, p. 395f. and 399f.
• Johann Konrad Zellweger. Simple life picture of an Appenzell pedagogue. Copy of an unpublished manuscript from approx. 1875. Illustrated by Rudolf Zellweger. Neuchâtel 1988.
• Specker, Louis. Refinement of poverty must become the watchword of all human friends: Johann Konrad Zellweger's educational work in the context of his time. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher, Volume 134/2006 (2007), pp. 70-103. Web access via e-periodica.ch.

Web links

• Johannes Gruntz-Stoll: Johann Konrad Zellweger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 7, 2014 , accessed April 14, 2020 .

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