Paul Gottlob child

Paul Gottlob Kind (born January 25, 1822 in Chur , † January 6, 1893 in Mitlödi ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor .

Life

Paul Gottlob Kind was the son of Paulus Kind the Younger . First he attended classes at the city school in Chur for five years, then he was taught there at a private school, later at the Bündner Kantonsschule and finally at a grammar school in Stuttgart . Afterwards he studied from 1838 to 1840 at the University of Tubingen theology . He studied at the University of Halle for the next two years . In Zuoz he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in 1844 .

Afterwards, Kind briefly worked as a Latin and Greek teacher in Paris, after which he taught at a school in Schiers . At the same time he was employed as an assistant pastor in a German-speaking community in London. After he had given up the position there, he worked as a religion teacher first at the city school and later at the canton school in Chur.

In Maladers , Kind had worked as a parish administrator since 1849 , and a year later he was called as the first pastor in a newly founded parish in Milan. Only in 1860 did he return to his home town of Graubünden to take on a pastor's position in Poschiavo . In Schiers, the then director of the Protestant school was looking for a successor, and on January 5, 1863 Paul Gottlob Kind was elected to this office with 14 out of 16 votes.

In July 1863 he took over this office, but only kept it until 1870. During this time he was put under more pressure because of his religious affiliation; but he refused to leave the synod. In 1870 he tried to get the parish post in Herisau , which he was granted. In 1880 he became secretary of the church council of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden . In 1886 he gave up the pastor's post in Herisau and was appointed pastor in Davos .

Kind held the parish office in Davos for seven years until his death. He died in Mitlödi during a visit by his son Paul Hieronymus Kind , whose mother was Barbara Adelheid von Salis, on January 6, 1893.

Works

• Sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:20, 21. Farewell sermon delivered on October 4, 1846 in the German Church in the Savoy in London (Basel 1847)
• "The love of Christ urges us." Sermon given before the Evangelical Rhaetian Synod in Malans, June 25, 1848, on 2 Corinthians 5:14 (Chur 1848)
• The position of the pastor in the community. Inaugural sermon on 1 Cor. 3, 9, held May 14, 1871 (Herisau 1871)

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Child, Paul Gottlob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 800-803.