Rageth Christoffel

Rageth Christoffel (born June 26, 1810 in Scheid GR ; † January 29, 1875 in Wintersingen ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and teacher .

Life

Rageth Christoffel was born as the son of the Graubünden farmer Thomas Christoffel and his wife Agnes Ragut Tscharner. In 1836 Rageth Christoffel was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod and in the same year became pastor in Almens .

Since Christoffel's interest lay in the promotion of the school system, he gave up the pastor's office in 1840 in order to devote himself to school and became director of the educational institution in Hofwil . In 1843 Christoffel briefly worked as a secondary teacher at a school in Kleindietwil before he became rector of a school in Schöftland that same year . In 1847 he returned to the pastor's office and became a pastor in Wintersingen , where he worked until his death on January 29, 1875.

Works

• The salvation of the fatherland (Zofingen 1842)
• Selection from Zwingli's writings (Zurich 1843)
• Pestalozzi (Zurich 1846)
• The Religious Discussion in Bern in 1528 (Bern 1853)
• Character images from the history of the Reformation in Italy (Erlangen 1865)
• Giovanni Mollio , Luigi Pasquali and Pietro Carnesecchi in Evangelical Calendar (Berlin 1865)

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Christoffel, Rageth. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 412-414.
• Johann Jacob Oeri : Funeral Sermon on Acts 20:32 for Pastor Rageth Christoffel in Wintersingen BL (Liestal 1875)