Samuel Gobat
Samuel Gobat (born January 26, 1799 in Crémines in the Bernese Jura ; † May 12, 1879 in Jerusalem ) was a missionary and Evangelical-Anglican bishop of Jerusalem .
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Samuel Gobat joined the Mission House of the Basel Mission in 1820 . In 1826 he made his first missionary trip in the service of the London Mission Society . He then spent three years in Cairo and three more in the Abyssinian highlands. In 1832 he returned to Europe and in 1834 married Marie Zeller, the daughter of Christian Heinrich Zeller . The daughter Dora Rappard , who became known as a missionary, emerged from the marriage. A nephew of Gobat was the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Charles Albert Gobat and a grandson of the publisher Alfred Kober .
From 1835 to 1836 Gobat stayed again in Abyssinia. In 1837 and 1839 he cured in Kreuznach to alleviate chronic dysentery . He was then sent to Malta , where he began translating the Bible into Arabic . In 1846, five years after the evangelical diocese of Jerusalem was established in 1841 at the suggestion of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia , Gobat was appointed the city's second bishop as the successor to the late Michael Solomon Alexander . In his capacity as bishop Gobat founded evangelical congregations and schools, orphanages and hospitals in Jerusalem, Bethlehem , Jaffa , Nablus and Nazareth .
He was succeeded by Joseph Barclay .
literature
- Alex Carmel: Gobat, Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- F. Zeller: Gobat, Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 413-416.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : GOBAT, Samuel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 258.
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| SURNAME | Gobat, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crémines in the Bernese Jura |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1879 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |