Johannes Christian Leonhardi

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Johannes Christian Leonhardi (* 1651 in Filisur ; † December 18, 1725 in Prec ), also Jan Christian Linard , was a Swiss Reformed clergyman .

Life

Johannes Christian Leonhardi studied in Zurich since 1671 at the Schola Tigurina . After April 3, 1673 he studied theology at the University of Basel ; the next day he also enrolled in philosophy . On June 22, 1674, he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod . This gave him permission to work as a pastor in the Free State of the Three Leagues . In the following years he traveled to Germany, England and the Netherlands and campaigned for closer ties between reformed Switzerland, England and the reformed Netherlands.

In 1679 Leonhardi took over a pastor's position in his home town of Filisur, and he also took on a position as preacher , which he held until his death. In 1693 he became chaplain to the Swiss noble family Capol in the Netherlands, but Johannes Gujan replaced him the next year . During this time Leonhardi fought, among other things, that the Reformed Church in Valtellina would be allowed again. He mediated unsuccessfully between the Bündner Synod and the States General .

In 1694 he returned to Graubünden and initially took on a pastor's position in Tschiertschen-Praden and two years later moved to Nufenen GR , where he remained active for eight years. In Davos on October 14, 1703 he gave a controversial sermon about the importance of the three leagues in the War of the Spanish Succession . Because of this sermon there was public resistance, so that there was almost a military conflict.

In 1704 Leonhardi moved to Trimmis and stayed there until 1713. Then he went to Praez as pastor , where he stayed until his death on December 18, 1725.

Leonhardi is one of the Grisons theologians of the 17th / 18th centuries. Century who published the most writings. Some of his works have been translated into English or Dutch, although it is unclear whether he was the translator himself.

Works (selection)

  • Informaziun davartil dret saludaivel adoever dalg s. sacramaint dalla Tschaina dalg Segner (Basel 1661)
  • Cudaschaet da cuffüert et consolatiun incunter tuotta crusch etz afflictiun. Schi, eir incunter la moart svessa (Tschlin 1682)
  • Bus and recovery book / in what occasion of the words of Christ Marc. Iv. 15 repents and believes in the gospel taught in 4 chapters (Basel 1685)
  • Shield against the arrows of persecution (Lindau 1690)
  • Hurerey / and all unchaste lusts of the flesh lofty sweetness / and true bitterness together with the most noble reasons (Basel 1695)
  • A Discourse of Three Travelers, and of the Liberty and Gouvernement of the Grisons (1698)
  • Oeconomia sacra That is holy housekeeping from the infallible Word of God: For everyone and every person / taken / known art ... (St. Gallen 1702)
  • Brevis descriptio demnocratici liberas, & a solo Deo dependentos Rhaetiae reipublicae, seu celsorum Trium Rhaetiae Foderum regiminis (London 1704)
  • Representation of the miserable State of the Church of Christ in the Country of the Grisons (London 1704)
  • Most necessary reforms of today's Christianity, also corrupted by most Reformed Evangelical Christians (1717)
  • Kindly sought association of universalists and particularists in the Eydgenossschaft (1723)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Leonhardi, Johannes Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linard, Jan Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss reformed clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 1651
PLACE OF BIRTH Filisur
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1725
Place of death Prec