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OBERLIN, JEAN FREDERIC (1740-1826)

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OBERLIN, See also:JEAN See also:FREDERIC (1740-1826) , See also:German See also:Protestant pastor and philanthropist, the son of a teacher, was See also:born on the 3Ist of See also:August 1740 at See also:Strassburg, where he studied See also:theology. In 1766 he became Protestant pastor of Waldbach, a remote and barren region in the See also:Steinthal (See also:Ban-de-la-See also:Roche), a valley in the See also:Vosges on the See also:borders of See also:Alsace and See also:Lorraine. He set himself to better the material equally with the spiritual See also:condition of the inhabitants. He began by constructing roads through the valley and erecting See also:bridges, inciting the peasantry to the enterprise by his See also:personal example. He introduced an improved See also:system of See also:agriculture. Substantial cottages were erected, and various See also:industrial arts were introduced. He founded an itinerant library, originated See also:infant See also:schools, and established an See also:ordinary school at each of the five villages in the See also:parish. In the See also:work of See also:education he received See also:great assistance from his housekeeper, Louisa Scheppler (1763—1837). He died on the 1st of See also:June 1826, and was interred with great manifestations of See also:honour and See also:affection at the See also:village of Urbach. Among the many accounts of the labours of Oberlin, mention may be made of See also:Thomas See also:Sims, Brief Memorials of Oberlin (See also:London, 183o) ; See also:Memoirs of Oberlin, with a See also:short See also:notice of Louisa Scheppler (London, 1838, 2nd ed. 1852) ; H. See also:Ware, See also:Biography of Oberlin (See also:Boston, 1845) ; L.

Spach, Oberlin le See also:

Pasteur (Strassburg, 18y5 2nd ed. 1868) ; F. W. Bodemann, J. F. Oberlin (3rd ed., 1879) ; K. F. Riff, Drei Bilder aus dem Leben von Papa Oberlin (Strassburg, 1880) ; See also:Josephine See also:Butler, See also:Life of J. F. Oberlin (1882); G. H. von See also:Schubert, Ziige aus dem Leben Oberlins (11th ed., 189o) ; Armin See also:Stein, Johann See also:Friedrich Oberlin, ein Lebensbild (1899). See also the See also:article in See also:Herzog Hauck, Realencyklopadie.

The collected writings of Oberlin were published by Burkhardt at See also:

Stuttgart in 1843 in 4 vols.

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