This article focuses on an aspect of Pietist education that may be regarded as a reform, namely a new way of upholding the role model to educational ends – or, more simply put, of teaching by example. This new approach to the example, according to my thesis, manifests itself in an implicit, narrative didactics of piety. This will be illustrated by reference to a popular genre of children’ and young people’s literature dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, namely ‘exemplary children’s stories’ (Kinderexempelgeschichten). Such stories consist of biographical model narratives concerning exemplary pious boys and girls. To demonstrate how this implicit, religious didactic was made explicit, I draw on the text ‘Christliche Lebens=Regeln’ (Christian Rules of Life), which was especifically conceived as a systematic elucidation of exemplary stories.

本文侧重于虔诚主义教育的一个方面，可以将其视为一种改革，即一种将榜样坚持教育目标的新方法，或者更简单地说，是通过示例教学。根据我的论文，这种对示例的新方法以一种隐含的，叙述性的虔诚教义表现出来。可以参考17和18世纪流行的儿童和青少年文学流派来说明这一点，即“典型的儿童故事”（Kinderexempelgeschichten）。这些故事包括有关典范虔诚的男孩和女孩的传记式叙事。为了说明这种隐含的，宗教的教义是如何变得明确的，我借鉴了文字“ Christliche Lebens = Regeln（《基督教生活规则》），这被专门认为是对典范故事的系统阐释。