Christophe Moehrlen Explained

Christophe Moehrlen
Birth Date:	20 January 1800
Birth Place:	Baiersbronn, Württemberg
Death Place:	Daillens, Switzerland
Occupation:	Schoolteacher, writer
Genre:	Children's literature, Christian literature

Christophe Moehrlen (20 January 1800 – 28 February 1871), pen name: Christoph Irenius, was a Swiss French Protestant pastor of German origin, schoolteacher and author of children's literature.

Biography

Moehrlen was teacher at the Evangelical College in Schiers,^[1] at the poorhouse Calame in Le Locle^[2] and at Christian Friedrich Spittler′s Griechenanstalt in Beuggen.^[3] He later worked as a pastor in Payerne, where he founded a reformatory for boys, and finally in Daillens.^[4] In addition to some educational works and translations, he published in 1839, under the pseudonym Christoph Irenius the autobiographical book Eine wahrhafte Geschichte ("A true story").

Moehrlen was the father-in-law of Otto Sutermeister.^{[5] [6]}

Selected works

• Christoph Irenius: Eine wahrhafte Geschichte. Autobiography. Basel, 1839.
• Geschichte der Waldenser: von ihrem Ursprunge an bis auf unsere Zeit. Basel: Bahnmaier's Buchhandlung, C. Detloff, 1844. 99 pages.
• Das Buch der Wahrheitszeugen oder der theuern protestantisch-evangelischen Kirche ununterbrochene Fortdauer in allen Jahrhunderten. Geschichtserzählungen für Schule und Haus. 2 Volumes, Basel 1844–1845 (Volume 1 and Volume 2 at Munich Digitization Center)
• Histoire biblique pour les écoles et les familles. Translation from German to French. Payerne: Louis Gueissaz, 1850–60.

Secondary literature

• Marie Dedie-Moehrlen. Une belle vie: la vie de mon grand-père, le pasteur Christophe Moehrlen, 1800–1871. Neuchâtel: Impr. P. Attinger S.A., 1936. 199 pages.
• Olivier Dedie (editor). Le dernier journal du pasteur Christophe Moehrlen. (from 1866 to 1869) Rolle: Société d'histoire de la Côte, 1987. 32 pages.

Notes and References

1. [Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch]
2. Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Vol. 43-45. Historische und Antiquarische Gesellschaft zu Basel, Stiftung Pro Augusta Raurica, R. Reich, 1944. p. 132
3. [Heidy Margrit Müller]
4. Anzeige einer Knaben-Erziehungsanstalt in the second volume of his work Das Buch der Wahrheitszeugen. Basel 1846, p. 829
5. http://www.gen-gen.ch/MOEHRLEN/Christophe/1403459?lg=en Christophe Moehrlen
6. Erinnerung an Frau Professor Ernestine Sutermeister-Moehrlen: Geboren den 18. Oktober 1832 / Gestorben den 18. Juli 1900. 1900.