Jean Antoine Bost (March 4, 1817 in Moutier-Grandval, canton of

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-1 November 1881) was a Swiss Calvinist pastor and musician. His father, Ami Bost, was also a Pastor. He learned the piano with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

. In 1840, he gave up his musical career and he became Pastor in La Force, village of the

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valley of France. In 1846, he inaugurated the new temple and decided to build the Asylum of his dreams by the temple. 'La Famille' (the Family) was inaugurated on May 24, 1848. It was immediately made available to children, orphans, disabled, incurables. He created 9 asylums during his life. In 1861, he married Eugénie Ponterie. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1864. The Asylum has since flourished to become the John Bost Foundation where over 1000 people with a wide variety of disabilities live.

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John Bost Foundation
by John De Liefde (1867)

The Quiver (1883) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bost, John 1817 births 1881 deaths People from the Bernese Jura Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians French Calvinist and Reformed ministers Swiss pianists Swiss male musicians 19th-century pianists 19th-century male musicians 19th-century musicians