Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin

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Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin , also Emanuel Stierlin (born March 18, 1779 in Bern , † June 8, 1866 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher .

Life

family

Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin was the son of Benjamin Stierlin and his wife Anna (née Zimmermann). He was married to Maria Sophia (* July 1787 in Brugg ; † 8 June 1846 in Bern), daughter of Johann Jakob Stapfer (1747-1805), pastor in Brugg and later at the Nydegg Church, since 1805 ; they had four children together. In 1814, Stierlin obtained citizenship rights in the city of Bern and was a member of the Shoemaker Society .

education

Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin studied theology at the Bern Academy and has been a teacher at the class school in Bern since 1806.

Career

From 1818 until 1831 he rose from helper to supreme dean at the Bern Minster and, after the abolition of this office, was dean of the Bern chapter from 1834 to 1840. In 1827 he anonymously published his book Brief Zeit der Kirchenverbesserung zu Bern. To the Reformation Festival in 1828 , of which 20,000 copies were printed.

In 1835, on instructions from the government, he had to vacate the official residence in the monastery building ; this led to a fundamental debate in the Grand Council about the church property.

For many years, Stierlin was president of the orphanage management and the civil girls' school.

Working as a historian

Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin wrote numerous historical essays for young people and was editor or co-editor of the Bern Chronicles of Konrad Justinger , Benedikt Tschachtlan and Valerius Anshelm . Stierlin was a member of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  2. Directory of all burgers in the city of Bern on 1. Jenner 1853 , Bern 1853, p. 160.
  3. Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen: Prodromus of a Swiss Historiography in alphabetical order the historians of all cantons and all centuries . Huber, 1874 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2020]).
  4. ^ Marianne Derron, Christian von Zimmermann: Jeremias Gotthelf: New Studies . Georg Olms Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-15159-5 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2020]).
  5. ^ Archives of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern . Stämpfliche Verlagshandlung, 1860 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2020]).