Otto Carisch

Otto Carisch (born September 28, 1789 in Sarn , † summer 1858 in Fideris ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and historian . He was one of the most important Protestant pastors in Graubünden in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

Otto Carisch was born on September 28, 1789 in Sarn am Heinzenberg as the son of a farming family. At the age of 15 months, he was brought to his grandparents in Duvin to be raised. He attended school in Duvin, after which he was taught at the private school of Pastor La Nicca in Flerden . From May 1806 he went to a canton school in Bern .

From 1811 Carisch studied theology and education in Bern . In 1813 he went on a language trip to Lausanne and in the following year he became a private tutor for a merchant family in Bergamo from the Engadin . In 1818 he continued studying theology at the University of Berlin . Since he could not make up his mind to become a pastor, Carisch was appointed professor of the Italian and German language and history at the canton school in Chur in 1819; two years later he also taught pedagogy and methodology . His conception of education was largely influenced by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi . On June 22, 1824, Carisch was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod and was thus authorized to exercise a pastoral office in the canton of Graubünden. In 1825 he was elected pastor in Poschiavo . He held this position until 1837.

After his wife's death in 1850, Carisch returned to Chur to teach Italian and religion at the canton school. From 1852 to 1855 he translated the New Testament into Surselvian . The work was published as early as the next year. Carisch died in Fideris in the summer of 1858.

Works

• Small German-Italian-Romance word collection for use in our Romance country schools (Chur 1821)
• Main paradigms of Romance conjugation and declension. Oberland, Engadine and Oberhalbstein Romansch (Chur 1848)
• Pocket dictionary of the Rhaeto-Romanic language in Graubünden, especially the Oberland and Engadine dialects (Chur 1848)
• Grammatical theory of forms of the German language and the Rhaeto-Romanic in the Oberland and Lower Engadine dialect for Romansh (Chur 1851)

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Carisch, Otto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 390-392.