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FELIX NEFF (1798-1829)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX
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NEFF (1798-1829)  , Swiss
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Protestant divine and philanthropist, was
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born at
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Geneva on the 8th of
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October 1798 . Originally a sergeant of
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artillery, he decided in 1819 to devote himself entirely to evangelistic
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work . He was ordained to the
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ministry in 1822, and soon afterwards settled in the valley of Freissinieres, where he laboured in the manner of J . F .
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Oberlin, being at one and the same
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time pastor, schoolmaster, engineer and agriculturist . He was so successful that he changed the
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character of the
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district and its inhabitants . In 1827, worn out by his labours, he was obliged to return to his native
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place, where he died two years later .

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