Peter Saluz
Peter Otto Saluz , Rhaeto-Romanic Peider Not Saluz , Italian Pietro Ottone Saluzzi (born June 12, 1758 in Lavin , † April 29, 1808 in Chur ), was a Swiss Reformed clergyman and educator .
Life
Peter Saluz was born on June 12, 1758 in Lavin in Graubünden , the son of the teacher Nuot Saluz . Trained by a priest, Petrus Domenicus Rosius à Porta taught him from 1774 to 1776 . In 1776 he seems to have attended the University of Basel . On June 10 of the same year the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod accepted him , which allowed him to work as a pastor in the Free State of Drei Bünde . In the same year he took over the community in Felsberg . During his tenure there, he taught himself alongside philosophy , the Greek , Italian and French language at. In 1784 he was additionally appointed as a teacher at the Chur Latin School , a year later he was promoted to headmaster of the city school and gave up the pastor's office. From 1789 he also worked as a free preacher at the Regulakirche in Chur . When the Bündner Kantonsschule was founded in Chur, Saluz became its first headmaster on May 1, 1804. He held the post of headmaster and preacher until his death on April 28, 1808 at the age of 49.
Saluz can be assigned to Pietism and the Moravian Church , later he also turned to Enlightenment theology. He had taken particular care to reorganize the Chur schools.
Works
- Two occasional sermons given at St. Regula in Chur, June 30th and July 14th 1793 (1793)
- To the Bündner audience (Chur 1798)
- A sermon about Lucas 19, 41. 42nd held ordinary days of penance and prayer the 18th winter month 1802 (Chur 1802)
- Announcement of a new school institute in Chur in Graubünden (no location, no year)
- Insignificant proposal for the revision of the synodal ordinances and the church system (Lucerne 1807; together with Lucius Pol )
literature
- Wilhelm Benjamin Gautzsch : Biography of the blessed professor and pastor P. Salutz. In: The new collector, 4th year, Chur 1808, pp. 289–324; Separate print: Bregenz 1809; Reprint: Bündner Monatsblatt, 1954, pp. 289–312.
- Erich Wenneker : Saluz, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1253-1254.
Web links
- Martin Bundi: Saluz, Peider Not. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saluz, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Saluz, Peter Otto (full name); Saluz, Peider Not; Saluzzi, Pietro Ottone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss reformed clergyman and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lavin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1808 |
| Place of death | Chur |