Career
He later worked as a pastor in Payerne where he founded a reformatory for boys, and finally in Daillens. In addition to some educational works and translations, he published in 1839 under the pseudonym Christoph Irenius the autobiographical book Eine wahrhafte Geschichte (“A true story”). Moehrlen was the father-in-law of Otto Sutermeister.
Marie Dedie-Moehrlen.
Une belle vie: la vie de mon grand-père, le pasteur Christophe Moehrlen, 1800-1871. Neuchâtel: Impr. P. Attinger South America, 1936.
199 pages. Olivier Dedie (editor).
Le dernier journal du pasteur Christophe Moehrlen. (from 1866 to 1869) Rolle: Société d"histoire de la Côte, 1987.