Lucius Gabriel

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Lucius Gabriel or Luzi Gabriel (* 1597 in Flims , † 19th October 1663 in Ilanz ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and Bible translators in the frets innovative Surselva . His main work was Ilg Nief Testament da Niess Senger Jesu Christ (German: The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ ), a translation of the Bible into the Romansh language of the Surselvian idiom , which was printed in Basel in 1648 and reprinted nine times by 1869.

Life

Lucius Gabriel was born in 1597 as the son of the reformed pastor Stefan Gabriel in Flims in Surselva in Switzerland. From 1612 he attended the Schola Tigurina in Zurich and in 1617 studied theology at the University of Basel . In the same year he switched to the Reformed Academy in Geneva . On February 16, 1619, he completed his studies at the University of Basel with the degree of master's degree . In the same year he was already active as a pastor in Castrisch in Grisons . The following year Gabriel was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod . Due to the turmoil in Graubünden , he was forced to flee Graubünden together with his father in 1620. In October they were admitted to Zurich. There he worked both as a carer for the Veltlin refugees and as a preacher .

In 1622 he returned to Castrisch and was then also pastor in Ilanz as a substitute for his father, who did not return from Altstetten until 1626. After 1632 he was pastor in Flims, and in 1638, the year his father died, he took over the parish in Ilanz. He kept this position until his death on October 19, 1663. He turned down several offers for other pastoral positions within Graubünden.

Lucius Gabriel's main work was Ilg Nief Testament da Niess Senger Jesu Christ , a Bible translation of the New Testament into the Romansh language of the Surselvian idiom, which was printed in Basel in 1648 and reprinted nine times by 1869.

Works

  • Oratio defudendis ad verum precibus concinnata & publice recitata in celeberimo scholae Tigurinae Gymnasio (Zurich 1616)
  • Pündtnerisch Hanengeschrey (1621)
  • Ilg Nief Testament da Niess Senger Jesu Christ (Basel 1648)
  • Two Christian corpse sermons given at the funeral of the brothers Jacob Schmnidt von Grüneck and Caspar Schmidt von Grüneck (Zurich 1659)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Bundi: Gabriel, Luzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .