Christophe Moehrlen 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, at the poorhouse Calame in Le Locle

Le Locle

Le Locle is a municipality in the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.It is situated in the Jura mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds....

 and at Christian Friedrich Spittler′s Griechenanstalt in Beuggen. He later worked as a pastor in Payerne

Payerne

Payerne is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the district of Payerne, and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully....

 where he founded a reformatory for boys, and finally in Daillens

Daillens

Daillens is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Gros-de-Vaud.-Geography:Daillens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.9% is forested...

. 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

Otto Sutermeister

Friedrich Gottlieb Otto Sutermeister was a Swiss folklorist and professor at the University of Berne who collected and revised numerous folk tales, legends, fables, and proverbs....

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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
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• 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.