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词条 Dora Rappard
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  1. Life

  2. Publications

  3. Notes

  4. Sources

  5. Further reading

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| name = Dora Rappard
| image = Dora Rappard.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Sophie Rosine Dorothea Gobat
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|09|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = St Julian's, Malta.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1923|10|10|1842|09|01|df=y}}
| death_place = Bettingen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
| nationality = Swiss
| other_names =
| occupation = Missionary and hymn writer
| known_for =
}}

Dora Rappard (1 September 1842 – 10 October 1923) was a Swiss missionary and hymn writer. For many years she taught and gave spiritual guidance at the St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission, a training school for evangelical missionaries near Basel, Switzerland. Many of her hymns are included in modern hymnals.

Life

Sophie Rosine Dorothea (Dora) Gobat was born on 1 September 1842 in St Julian's, Malta.

Her parents were Samuel Gobat (1799–1879) and Marie Christine Regine Zeller (1813–1879).

Her maternal grandfather was Christian Heinrich Zeller (1779–1860).{{sfn|Raupp|2010}}

Her father, who was Swiss, had been made Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem by King Frederick William IV of Prussia and Queen Victoria of England.{{sfn|Gerlach|2013|p=345}}

She grew up in Jerusalem.{{sfn|Killy|2005|p=152}}

In 1862 she was head of a girls' school in Jerusalem.{{sfn|Raupp|2010}}

Dora married Karl Heinrich Rappard (1837–1909) in 1867 and moved with him to Alexandria and Cairo.

From 1868 onward they lived in St. Chrischona near Basel.{{sfn|Killy|2005|p=152}}

They had two children, Simon and Theodora Marie.{{sfn|Sophie Rosine Dorothea (Dora) Rappard – Geni}}

She helped her husband teach at the Bible School in St. Chrischona.{{sfn|Gerlach|2013|p=345}}

The St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission was an evangelical training school for home and foreign missions.{{sfn|Bloesch|2001|p=52}}

From 1868 she was very active working with her husband in St. Chrischona.

From 1871 she was administrative director, pastor, evangelist and builder.{{sfn|Raupp|2010}}

Dora Rappard was a formative figure within the pietist community movement.{{sfn|Raupp|2010}}

She came to be called "the mother of St. Chrischona" due to her spiritual advice, leadership and writings.{{sfn|Bloesch|2001|p=52}}

Dora Rappard died on 10 October 1923 in St. Chrischona, in the municipality of Bettingen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland.{{sfn|Raupp|2010}}

Publications

Dora Rappard translated English revivalist hymns into German.{{sfn|Killy|2005|p=152}}

She became well known for the many songs she composed or wrote herself.

The Mennonite Hymnal (1972) has two of her songs: Here is my heart, My God, I give it to you and There still is room, His house is not yet full.

She was also a very gifted poet, whose work had great influence.{{sfn|Gerlach|2013|p=270}}

Her publications include:

{{refbegin}}
  • {{citation|author=Dora Rappard|title=Gemeinschafts-Lieder (Community songs)|year=1875|edition=multiple editions}}
  • {{citation|author=Dora Rappard|title=Lichte Spuren (Light traces)|year=1914 |type=autobiography}}
  • {{citation|author=Dora Rappard|title=Frohes Alter (Happy age)|year=1923}}
{{refend}}

Notes

{{notes}}

Sources

{{refbegin}}
  • {{citation

|last=Bloesch|first=Donald G.|title=Is the Bible Sexist?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6VKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52
|accessdate=2017-11-25|date=2001-07-11|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-57910-691-1}}
  • {{citation

|last=Gerlach|first=Horst|title=My Kingdom Is Not of This World: 300 Years of the Amish, 1683-1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lL84BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA270
|accessdate=2017-11-25|date=2013|publisher=Masthof Press & Bookstore|isbn=978-1-60126-387-2}}
  • {{citation|chapter=Rappard, Dora

|last=Killy|first=Walther|title=Plett - Schmidseder|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkoK_108xJkC&pg=PT180
|accessdate=2017-11-25|year=2005|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-096630-5}}
  • {{citation|language=de|date=27 July 2010

|last=Raupp |first=Werner |chapter=Rappard, Dora|title=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
|url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D29048.php|accessdate=2017-11-25}}
  • {{citation|ref={{harvid|Sophie Rosine Dorothea (Dora) Rappard – Geni}}

|title=Sophie Rosine Dorothea (Dora) Rappard|work=Geni
|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Sophie-Rosine-Dorothea-Rappard/6000000022917704713|accessdate=2017-11-25}}{{refend}}

Further reading

{{refbegin}}
  • {{citation|author=E. Veiel-Rappard|title=Mutter: Bilder aus dem Leben von Dora R.-Gobat |year=1925}}
{{refend}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rappard, Dora}}

5 : 1842 births|1923 deaths|Swiss Protestant missionaries|Calvinist and Reformed hymnwriters|People from St. Julian's

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