John Bost
Jean Antoine Bost was born was born on 4 March 1817 at Moutier in the canton of Bern in Switzerland and died on 1November 1881 in Paris Ve) was a Protestant pastor.
He founded the Asylums of Laforce, today became the John Bost Foundation.
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He is the son of Ami Bost , Protestant pastor, a member of the Revival.
He is the brother of nine other Protestant pastors whose Ami Bost Jr., businessman and father of Helen Bost . He learned the piano and became a pupil of Franz Liszt.
In 1840 , he abandoned his artistic career and want to become like his father, Pastor. He became pastor of the village of La Force ( Dordogne ) in 1844.
In 1846 , he inaugurated the new temple. He decides to build a home for unwanted children: the disabled, orphans, the poor.
24 May 1848 , the first asylum, the Family, is inaugurated. This is the first of nine that will build asylums. The assembly now bears the name John Bost Foundation.
In 1861 he married Eugenie Pontere. The couple had three children: Leila, Caroline and Henry.
Family Bost
- Her daughter Leila Bost wife Dr. Francois Charon, Charon their daughter Suzanne married Dr. Leopold Negro who developed the technique of BCG vaccination
- Her daughter Caroline Bost wife Dr. Adolphe Jalaguier, which performs the first operations for appendicitis.
- The niece of John Bost wife Sechan Louis , father of Oliver Sechan and grandfather of Renaud .
- Helen Bost, another niece and daughter of John Bost Ami Bost Jr., is the mother of the famous brothers Cadier .
Quotes from John Bost
"Those that reject all, I welcome them on behalf of my master. "
"I will put flowers on their paths. "
Texts of John Bost
- Long history of the founding of Asylums
- The Christian church considered the suffering of asylum : thesis presented to the theological faculty of Montauban (1880)
Biographies
- John Bost, founder of the asylums of Laforce , by Leo Maury (1925)
- John Bost and his prophetic cited by Alexander Westphal (1937)
- John Bost, a human face of suffering, God, love, flowers, Philippe Rey Lescure (1959)
- Memories of my ghost, Charles-Marc Bost (1981) 3 volumes: Ami and his ten son - John - Descendants
- John Bost BD conducted by the John Bost (1990)
- John Bost, the utopian city, by Michel Baron (1998)
- The Meynardie, for the love of John Bost, by Genevieve-Carion Machwitz (1992) biography of his wife Eugenie Pontere
References section
- a and b Alfred Cadier, Valle d'Aspe and Bearn Protestant MonHlios Publishing, 2002 and 2003
- a and b Cadier Family and leasing Izard
- "Xan Bear" Marc Broad, preface to Renaud, Ed Cairns
See also
External Links
- John Bost Foundation
- Biography of John Bost
- Virtual Museum of French Protestantism : Works of charity
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