Felix Nave

Felix Nave , born the October 8th 1798 with Geneva and dead the April 12th 1829 in the same city, is a Pasteur protesting Suisse which exerted to it quasi totality of its ministry in France, primarily in the Dauphiné, where it worked as an evangelist, teacher, agronomist and an engineer. He contributed to make evolve/move the situation of these high valleys on the moral, social and economic level.

Biography

Initially Sergeant of Artillery, it decides in 1819 to be devoted entirely to the evangelization. After having preached in the surroundings of Geneva and in the close Swiss cantons, in September 1821, answering the call of French Pasteur, it comes to Grenoble where there remain only three months.

From there, it passes in the Trièves, with Mens, before going to London where it is devoted the May 19th 1823 in the vault of Poultry.

Returned against Mens, it runs up against the Consistory which intends to prohibit to him to preach elsewhere than in the Protestant temple. One him proposae then one two stations, l´un close to Montpellier, the other in the Hautes-Alpes. It decides for this last and arrived in October 1923 at Freissinières, valley to which it was going to devote the essence of its existence.

In addition to preaching, Nave préocupe d´instruction. It makes come from new teachers of the Queyras, arranges a room of school in a common barn of the hamlet of Dormillouse, organizes a school of the evening for the women whose education had been completely neglected and goes until creating a teacher training school, intended to provide teachers to all the villages of the area.

Felix Neff is also interested in the material situation of the inhabitants, making restore channels to irrigate the meadows, modifying the local practices of culture of the Potato and lavishing measurements to improve hygiene of the inhabitants. In addition to these activities with Freissinières, Felix Neff moves unceasingly to go to preach, in Queyras, the Valleys Of Vaud Italian and the Champsaur, not hesitating to cross the collar of Orcières by all times.

Finally, exhausted and sick, it turned over in June 1827 to Geneva where it died on April 12th, 1829.

Sources

External bonds and documents

Of Vaud and Protestant in the States of Savoy Piedmont, the XVI° WITH the XVIII° century

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