Hans Karl Walter von Greyerz ( 7. February

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in Bern) was a Swiss Reformed pastor, Christian socialist, and hymn writer.

Family

Karl von Gruyerz was the great-grandson of the naturalist Georg Forster through his daughter Claire von Greyerz, son of the pastor Otto Wilhelm Aimé von Greyerz (1829–1882) and his wife Pauline Luise Locher (1838–1873). The writer was his brother.

Life

After studying theology in Basel, Jena,

, Berlin and Paris, he became pastor in Bürglen ( Aegerten near Biel) in 1895, in Winterthur in 1902, in Kandergrund in 1912 and in 1918 at the , where he stayed until 1935. After the First World War he advocated for Christian pacifism and the introduction of

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. Karl von Gruyerz created a pacifist version of the hymn " Holy God, We Praise Thy Name", which is number 518 in the hymn book of the Evangelical Reformed Churches in German-speaking Switzerland and number 729 in the prayer and hymn book of the Christian Catholic Church in Switzerland.

Published works

* * * "Greyerz, Hans Karl Walter von". In: '' Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie.'' 2. Ausgabe. Bd. 4 (2006), S. 135
online
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Greyerz, Karl von 1870 births 1949 deaths 19th-century Calvinist and Reformed ministers 20th-century Calvinist and Reformed ministers 20th-century Swiss writers Calvinist and Reformed Christian socialists Calvinist pacifists Christian hymnwriters German-language writers Swiss Christian pacifists Swiss Christian socialists