Samuel Zeller

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Samuel Heinrich Ansgar Zeller (born April 9, 1834 in Beuggen , † April 18, 1912 in Männedorf ) was a Swiss missionary and director of the institution.

Life

Samuel Zeller is a son of Christian Heinrich Zeller , who together with Christian Friedrich Spittler founded the school for the poor at Beuggen Castle . The oldest known ancestor is a Konrad, who was master builder and stonemason in Martinszell near Kempten (Allgäu) around 1500 . One of his ancestors was Andreas Christoph Zeller, who was friends with the Pietist father August Hermann Francke .

Samuel Zeller lived from 1851 to 1852 for almost two years in a large boys' institute in Payerne . Among other things, he worked for three years as a seminar teacher in Schiers (today the Evangelical Middle School in Schiers ) and as a teacher in Beuggen. Due to an illness he came to the Christian institution in Männedorf in 1857 , where he learned healing through prayer and worked there. After the death of the founder Dorothea Trudel in 1862, he took over the management of the institution, where he also worked as a pastor. The sanatorium (now the Bibelheim) was an important place of the pietistic revival movement of the 19th century, where many spiritual leaders also found relaxation.

Samuel Zeller had an extraordinary spiritual charisma and had a positive influence on many people. The Bible studies he held were based on the Bible and Jesus Christ and at the same time grounded with a lot of down to earth.

Works (selection)

  • Arithmetic - forgiven. Reflections on Matthew 18: 21–35. Publishing house of the St. Johannis printing house C. Schweickhardt, Lahr-Dinglingen 1922.
  • What is the sin against the Holy Spirit? 3. Edition. Self-published by the institute in Männedorf, Männedorf approx. 1910 ( online version in the text archive of the Evangelical Remote Library ; PDF; 1.9 MB).
  • From the life and death of the virgin Dorothea Trudel von Männedorf. 11th edition. Basel 1899.
  • House devotions held in Männedorf in 1871. 8th edition. Basel 1903.
  • Punishment and Consolation, Six Reflections on Bible Passages. 8th edition. Basel 1912.
  • A mother. A true story (memories of the mother of Dorothea Trudel). 13th edition. Basel 1900.
  • I would love to love her, reflections on Hosea 14 . 3. Edition. Männedorf 1921.
  • Will, weigh, choose, dare, meditations on Hebrews 11: 24-27. Männedorf 1909; 3rd edition Lahr-Dinglingen 1955.
  • Come, take, learn, meditations on Genesis 45: 4 and Matt. 11, 28-30. 2nd edition 1912.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed genealogical information on the homepage of the Paul Wolfgang Merkelschen Family Foundation
  2. ^ Johannes Heinrich Schmid: Zeller Samuel. In: Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1986, ISBN 3-417-24082-4 , p. 539.
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeller, Samuel Heinrich Ansgar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss missionary and director of the institution
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Flexing
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1912
Place of death Männedorf