Preacher School Basel

The Evangelical Preacher's School in Basel was founded in 1876 as a theological training facility with a partly scientific level and existed until 1915. It was close to the awakened Pietism .

It was headed by Inspector Wilhelm Arnold-Rappard (1838–1918), a brother-in-law of Carl Heinrich Rappard , the co-founder of the school. Arnold-Rappard was himself a student of Johann Tobias Beck (1804-1878). Further teachers were Fritz Barth , the brothers Huene, Gutscher, Sarasin, Gottsched, Eduard Riggenbach and Samuel Preiswerk (1853–1923).

history

The preacher's school in Basel emerged from the Swiss Baden Conference on the initiative of Friedrich Gerber (1828–1905) from the Evangelical Society in Bern. The training was similar to "Chrischona" or the "Johanneum", but more scientifically and theologically oriented. This initially included a solid philological training in the ancient languages ​​of Greek , Hebrew and Latin . The training was true to the Bible and very conservative, the teachers also looked after the students with pastoral care. Franz Eugen Schlachter , who received a diploma from March 1882, Ernst Jakob Christoffel and the blind Eduard Riggenbach-Thurneysen (1861–1927), who later became professor of theology from Basel, were among the well-known students at the Preacher's School .

The school was closed in 1915 during the First World War .

literature

• Christoph Ramstein: The Evangelical Predigerschule in Basel: The driving forces and the development of the school , Verlag Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, 2001, ISBN 978-3-906765-93-8