Lucius Pol

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Lucius Pol (born March 28, 1754 in St. Moritz , † February 2, 1828 in Fideris ) was a Swiss Reformed clergyman and scientist .

Life

Lucius Pol was born as the son of the shoemaker Jan Tamin Pol and his wife Anne in St. Moritz in the canton of Graubünden . The family came from Malix , where they were entitled to live. Lucius Bansi, Heinrich Bansi's father , taught Pol in La Punt . From 1769 to 1771 he was trained by the Moravian Brethren in Neuwied . The next year the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod accepted him , which allowed him to work as a pastor in the Free State of the Three Leagues . In the same year he took over the pastor's position in Schuders . In 1776 he moved to Luzein . He gave up this position in 1790 because of a priest's strike agreed by the synod. In the meantime he had founded the Society of Agricultural Friends with others in 1778 . Two years later he was elected clergyman in Fläsch and remained active there until 1799.

During the Helvetic Republic and the occupation by Austria, Lucius Pol was taken hostage with other pastors. First he was brought to Innsbruck , later to Graz . During this time he occupied himself with natural science. They were released in 1801, but Pol stayed in Neuwied for two years. In 1803 he took up the pastor's post in Malix , but a year later he went to Luzein again as a clergyman. He held the position until 1814.

Together with Peter Saluz , he tried to reform the church system in the canton during this time. After giving up the pastor's position in Luzein, he remained unemployed until 1823, when he took over the pastoral position in Fideris, where he remained active until his death on February 2, 1828 at the age of 74.

Works

• Irrelevant proposal for a revision of the synodal orders and the church system (Luzein 1807)
• About the cheese preparation: fragments, from experiences and excerpts mostly from the Prodomo dell'Abate Gerolamo Ottolini […] (Milano 1785)

literature

• Fadri Ratti: The mountain journeys of Luzius Pol , in Bündner Monatsblatt 1/2016, pp. 28–33
• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Pol, Luzius. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Erich Wenneker :  Pol, Lucius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 1162-1165.