Wilhelm Legrand (clergyman)

Wilhelm Legrand , also Guillaume Le Grand (born September 26, 1794 , other date April 26, 1794 in Riehen , † May 18, 1874 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.

Life

Wilhelm Legrand came from a family who came to Basel from the Spanish Netherlands in the 17th century because of their Protestant faith . He was the son of the politician and manufacturer Johann Lukas Legrand and his wife Rosina (born May 30, 1755 in Basel, † October 4, 1836 in Fouday); he had seven siblings, including his older brother Daniel Legrand .

From 1803 he attended the college in Saint-Morand near Altkirch in Alsace and in 1810 came to the Aarau Cantonal School .

In 1813 he matriculated to study theology at the University of Basel , which he continued from 1814 to 1816 at the University of Tübingen .

From 1816 to 1817 he was vicar in Waldersbach with pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin and in 1817 he was candidate for a pastorate; until 1820 he was employed as a teacher at a private institute, before he became a pastor in Oltingen from 1820 to 1832 .

On the occasion of the separation of the cantons in Basel , he gave up his parish by order of the Liestal government and was parish administrator in the Alsatian Hohewald from 1834 to 1835 . On October 23, 1836 he became the first German Reformed pastor in Freiburg im Üechtland and held this office until 1842, when he had to give it up due to health problems.

In 1842 he became the founder of the Basel Protestant Church Aid Association (today: Protestant Solidarity Switzerland ), which had the purpose of supporting Protestant diaspora communities at home and abroad. A particular goal was the establishment of Protestant communities in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland; later the association expanded to Eastern Europe , France , North and South America . Initially, Wilhelm Legrand, Adolf Christ , Adolf Sarasin (1802-1885) and Emanuel Preiswerk (1825-1904) were on the committee of the aid association . As president of the aid association, he established close contacts with the Waldensians in Italy .

From 1844 to 1873 he was head of the theological alumni founded by Antistes Jakob Burckhardt , theology professor Karl Rudolf Hagenbach and councilor Andreas Heusler in Basel, where Alfred Tobler lived, among others .

In 1873 he settled in Riehen.

Wilhelm Legrand had been married to Ursula (born May 18, 1797 in Basel; † January 18, 1853 ibid), daughter of the merchant and appellant Emanuel La Roche (1771–1849), since 1820; the marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

• The ecclesiastical distress of our Protestant co-religionists near and far . Basel: Bahnmaier, 1844.

literature

• Wilhelm Legrand . In: Keep what you have - Evangelisches Volks- und Gemeindeblatt from Austria . Brno 1874.

Web links

• Thomas K. Kuhn : Wilhelm Legrand. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Legrand, Wilhelm , index entry: German biography .
• Wilhelm Legrand . In: Portrait Archive .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luzius Müller, Hans-Adam Ritter, Roger Thiriet: Celebrate! Why we have our holidays . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17830-7 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
2. ^ CH: Conference "Protestant Solidarity Switzerland" before foundation. September 3, 2018, accessed on March 4, 2020 (Swiss Standard German). 
3. ↑ Editorial office Kirchenbote: The judgment applies. October 29, 2018, accessed March 4, 2020 . 
4. ^ Marlon Ronald Fluck: Basel Missionaries in Brazil: Emigration, Awakening and Becoming Church in the 19th Century . Peter Lang, 2004, ISBN 978-3-03910-205-1 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
5. ^ Ernst Matthias Rüsch: "Conversation about the one thing that is needed": Protestant-Reformed Italian pastoral care in the canton of Zurich in the 19th and 20th centuries . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-290-17540-5 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
6. ↑ Foundation & History | Theological alumneum. Retrieved March 4, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .