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JEAN FREDERIC OBERLIN (1740-1826)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN FREDERIC OBERLIN (1740-1826)  , German
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Protestant pastor and philanthropist, the son of a teacher, was born on the 3Ist of August 1740 at Strassburg, where he studied
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theology . In 1766 he became Protestant pastor of Waldbach, a remote and barren region in the Steinthal (
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Ban-de-la-Roche), a valley in the Vosges on the
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borders of Alsace and
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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
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personal example . He introduced an improved
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system of agriculture . Substantial cottages were erected, and various
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industrial arts were introduced . He founded an itinerant library, originated infant
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schools, and established an ordinary school at each of the five villages in the parish . In the
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work of
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education he received
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great assistance from his housekeeper, Louisa Scheppler (1763—1837) . He died on the 1st of
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June 1826, and was interred with great manifestations of honour and affection at the
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village of Urbach . Among the many accounts of the labours of Oberlin, mention may be made of Thomas Sims, Brief Memorials of Oberlin (
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London, 183o) ;
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Memoirs of Oberlin, with a short
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notice of Louisa Scheppler (London, 1838, 2nd ed . 1852) ; H .
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Ware, Biography of Oberlin (Boston, 1845) ; L .

Spach, Oberlin le

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) ; Josephine Butler,
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Life of J . F . Oberlin (1882); G . H. von Schubert, Ziige aus dem Leben Oberlins (11th ed., 189o) ; Armin Stein, Johann Friedrich Oberlin, ein Lebensbild (1899) . See also the article in Herzog Hauck, Realencyklopadie .

The collected writings of Oberlin were published by Burkhardt at

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Stuttgart in 1843 in 4 vols .

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