Adolf Schaubach

Ernst Adolf Schaubach

Monument in the park cemetery Meiningen

Ernst Adolf Schaubach (born January 30, 1800 in Meiningen ; † November 28, 1850 there ) was a German teacher, writer, alpinist and geographer.

Life

Schaubach was born on January 30, 1800 in Meiningen. His father was a consistorial councilor and head of the city school. After attending the Bernhardinum grammar school , he studied theology, mathematics, geography and history at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the University of Jena from 1819 to 1821 . In 1822 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Jena . During this time he traveled to German low mountain ranges and drew landscape sketches, panoramas and geographic reliefs of the Thuringian Forest, Harz, Fichtelgebirge and Saxon Switzerland. He returned to Meiningen in 1922 as a candidate for a ministry position and initially worked as a private teacher and from 1830 as a teacher at the community school. In 1835 he was appointed director of the community school. In 1832 Schaubach joined the Henneberg Antiquities Research Association . His first publication appeared in 1831 and described the volcanic mountain Dolmar near Meiningen. For the ducal Saxony-Meiningen regional studies, Schaubach created a physical and topographical overview of the duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from 1832 to 1834 . Duke Bernhard II appointed him ducal professor in 1846 because of his educational merits.

Between 1824 and 1847 Schaubach undertook a total of ten longer journeys to explore the Alps , which lasted up to 63 days. His travel companions included the landscape painter Carl Wagner and the natural scientist Hermann Friedrich Emmrich . The trips took her particularly to areas of the Eastern Alps that have not yet been explored , including the Austrian Alps, the Bavarian Alps and Dalmatia . Schaubach climbed the Watzmann (2713 m) and the Großglockner (3798 m), among other things, under difficult conditions at the time . He collected geological, orological, geographical, climatic, hydrological, historical and folklore data and published the results as well as drawings in his main 5-volume work The German Alps . It is one of the classics of popular scientific alpine literature, which contributed to the tourism and alpine development of the Alps. After two strokes in 1849, Schaubach succumbed to its consequences in 1850.

The Viennese Alpine Club "Wilde Banda" named the Schaubachhütte in the Ortler Alps in the Italian province of South Tyrol, built in 1875, after Schaubach . In 2014, the Meiningen Alpine Association had a plaque attached to the hut in the presence of the South Tyrolean provincial administration and the Alpine Association of South Tyrol. In honor of Schaubach, the Meiningen Alpine Association erected a memorial in the Meiningen Park Cemetery from 1884–1887 on the initiative of the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DÖAV) , made of stones from various Alpine mountains. 53 Alpine sections delivered the Alpine stones to Meiningen for this. In addition, the Jena Section donated 40 different alpine plants for the monument, which was inaugurated on June 5, 1887. Furthermore, a commemorative plaque installed in 1900 at the Bernhardinum grammar school and a hiking and viewing hut named after him in the Meiningen city forest, built in 1910, from which there is a good view of the north and east of the city, reminds of Schaubach. In the Meiningen museums he is represented in the permanent exhibition on Meiningen writers.

Adolf Schaubach was married to Marie Henriette Ferdinande (* 1829), daughter of the general superintendent Constantin Ackermann .

Works

Ernst Adolf Schaubach published geographic and alpine tourism works.

• Signpost through the Thuringian Forest for nature lovers: together with a panorama of Dolmar, description of the area around it and a chart , 1831
• Overview of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen according to its physical surface , 1832–1834
• The German Alps: a handbook for travelers through Tyrol, Austria, Steyermark, Illyria, Upper Bavaria and the adjoining areas; portrayed for locals and foreigners , five volumes, Jena 1845–1847
  • First part: General description , 1845
  • Second part: North Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Oberbaiern , 1845
  • Third part: The Salzburg, Upper Styria, the Austrian Mountains and the Salzkammergut , 1846
  • Fourth part: The area of ​​the Etsch and adjacent river areas , 1846
  • Fifth part: the south-eastern slope from the Grossglockner to Trieste , 1847
• The North Sea-Mediterranean Railway and the Main-Werra-Elbe Canal: with a railroad and canal map of Germany , Hildburghausen 1845
• Main Elbe Canal , 1845

literature

• Peter Grimm:  Schaubach, Ernst Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 587 ( digitized version ).
• Kuratorium Meiningen (Ed.): Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen , Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .

Web links

Commons : Adolf Schaubach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• [1] More works by Schaubach online at archive.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 74 , 23.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Seifert: On Schaubach's footsteps in Meiningen and South Tyrol. Meininger Heimatklänge, Meininger Tageblatt, August 8, 2017.
3. ^ German biography: Ernst Adolf Schaubach