Christoph Sauer

Christoph Sauer (1695) – Satumba 25, 1758) shine firintar Jamusanci da kuma mawallafi na farko a Arewacin Amurka.

An haifi Johann Christoph Sauer a shekara ta 1695 a Ladenburg (kusa da Heidelberg ), ɗan wani fasto na Reformed. Ya zo gundumar ( Graftschaft ) ta Wittgenstein a tsakiyar Jamus tun yana yaro tare da mahaifiyarsa bazawara a wani lokaci tsakanin 1700 da 1710. Ya kammala karatunsa a jami'ar Jamus, kuma ya yi karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Halle . A lokacin, masu mulkinta sun yi haƙuri da nau'ikan masu ra'ayin Pietist da sauran masu adawa da addini, musamman Alexander Mack, wanda ya kafa ' Yan'uwan Schwarzenau daga baya ya yi ƙaura zuwa Amurka. Yawancin ƙungiyoyin 'Yan'uwa sun fito ne daga wannan cocin na asali. Johann Christoph Sauer ya auri bazawara Maria Christina (an haife shi Gruber) a shekara ta 1720. Iyalin sun zauna a ƙauyen Schwarzenau, wanda yanzu mallakar garin Berleburg ne duk da cewa yana da alaƙa da Laasphe .

 Pennsylvania 
Iyalan sun yi ƙaura zuwa Pennsylvania a shekara ta 1724, suka zauna a Germantown . Sauer ya yi aiki a matsayin mai dinki kafin ya koma Lancaster a shekara ta 1726, inda yake da fili    gona.  A shekara ta 1731, matar Sauer, Maria Christina, ta shiga al'ummar Baptist ta Kwanaki Bakwai ta Johann Conrad Beissel a Ephrata, wato Ephrata Cloister .  An san ta a Ephrata a matsayin "Sister Marcella," kuma daga ƙarshe ta zama ƙaramar mai fifiko ga al'ummar, wadda aka keɓe ga rashin aure.  Shawarar Maria Christina ta hana aikin noma na Sauer,  kuma ya ƙaura tare da ɗansa zuwa Germantown inda a wannan shekarar ya gina babban gida don gidansa. 

Domin ya biya buƙatun sauran mutanen da ke jin Jamusanci a yankunan da aka yi wa ilimi mai zurfi, musamman a fannin tauhidi, ya sami Littafi Mai Tsarki da ayyukan addini daga Jamus. 
A kusan shekara ta 1735, Sauer ya ɗauki ra'ayin zama firinta da mawallafi. Benjamin Franklin ya mamaye wannan sana'a a lokacin, kuma shi ne mai samar da kayan bugawa ga al'ummar Jamus da ke kewaye da Pennsylvania. Abin mamaki, Franklin ya yi amfani da rubutun Romawa kawai. Sauer ya sami nau'in Fraktur daga wani kamfanin hakar ma'adinai a Nuremberg wanda Jacob Gass na Ephrata Cloister ya saya. A shekara ta 1738, Sauer ya fara buga almanacs, kalanda, littattafai da jaridu a shekara ta 1739 ta amfani da fuskar rubutu wadda masu karatunsa na Jamus za su iya karantawa cikin sauƙi.

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