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Alsatian pastor ground philanthropist (1740–1826)

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J. F Oberlin 1740 - 1826 An Example and Inspiration for Generations Oberlin College Library Sept. - Oct. 1990 J. F. OBERLIN 1740-1826 AN EXAMPLE AND INSPIRATION FOR GENERATIONS This exhibition honors Johann Friedrich Oberlin, born two-hundred and fifty years ago, for whom one-hundred and fifty seven years ago, Oberlin College was named. An attempt has been made to show how this country pastor working in an obscure comer of France, who traveled little and wrote less, influenced educators in his own and succeeding generations all over the world. During his lifetime his fame was spread by visitors and self-styled “pilgrims” who came to see the changes he had wrought in a wretchedly backward, isolated and forgotten region of Alsace called the Ban de la Roche. In the fifty-nine years of his pastorate there he transformed the barbaric inhabitants into literate citizens and, in the process, introduced innovations in education which were a hundred or more years ahead of their time. He, himself, did nothing to publicize his accomplishments. They became known through the writings of those “pilgrims” who came, saw, were impressed, and described their observations. They wrote biogra

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Jean Frederic Oberlin - Encyclopedia

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JEAN FREDERIC OBERLIN (1740-1826), German Protestant pastor and philanthropist, the son of a teacher, was born on the 31st of August 1740 at Strassburg, where he studied theology. In 1766 he became Protestant pastor of Waldbach, a remote and barren region in the Steinthal (Ban-de-la-Roche), a valley in the Vosges on the borders of Alsace and Lorraine. He set himself to better the material equally with the spiritual condition of the inhabitants. He began by constructing roads through the valley and erecting bridges, inciting the peasantry to the enterprise by his personal example. He introduced an improved system of agriculture. Substantial cottages were erected, and various industrial arts were introduced. He founded an itinerant library, originated infant schools, and established an ordinary school at each of the five villages in the parish. In the work of education he received great assistance from his housekeeper, Louisa Scheppler (1763-1837). He died on the 1st of June 1826, and was interred with great manifestations of honour and affection at the village of Urbach.

Among the many accounts of the labours of Oberlin, mention may be made of Thomas Sims, Brief Memorials of Oberlin (London, 1830); Memoirs of Oberlin, with a short n