# John Bost > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Bost > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Bost.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bost > Source revision: 1263584212 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Swiss musician and painter}} {{for| the Catholic Saint|John Boste}} {{more footnotes|date=March 2019}} thumb|right|One of the churches built by Bost '''Jean Antoine Bost''' (March 4, 1817 in [Moutier](/source/Moutier)-Grandval, canton of [Bern](/source/Bern)-1 November 1881) was a French-Swiss Calvinist pastor and musician. His father, Ami Bost, was also a pastor. He learned the piano with [Franz Liszt](/source/Franz_Liszt). In 1840, he gave up his musical career and became a pastor in [La Force](/source/La_Force%2C_Dordogne), village of the [Dordogne](/source/Dordogne) valley of France. In 1846, he inaugurated there a new temple and decided to build the asylum of his dreams by that temple. 'La Famille' (the Family) was inaugurated on May 24, 1848. It was immediately made available to children, orphans, disabled and incurables. He created 9 asylums during his lifetime. In 1861, he married Eugénie Ponterie. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1864.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1864&year-max=1864&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-16|website=search.amphilsoc.org}} The asylum has since flourished to become the John Bost Foundation where over 1000 people with a wide variety of disabilities live. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.johnbost.org/ John Bost Foundation] *[http://www.lexilogos.com/famille/bost_john_charity.htm Establishments of John Bost at Laforce, The Romance of Charity] by John De Liefde (1867) *[http://www.lexilogos.com/famille/bost_john_quiver.htm John Bost, Pastor and Philanthropist], The Quiver (1883) {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bost, John}} Category:1817 births Category:1881 deaths Category:People from the Bernese Jura Category:Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians Category:French Calvinist and Reformed ministers Category:Swiss pianists Category:Swiss male musicians Category:19th-century pianists Category:19th-century male musicians Category:19th-century musicians --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Bost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bost) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bost?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.