Alfred Tobler

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Alfred Tobler (born April 13, 1845 in Teufen ; † September 9, 1923 in Heiden ; entitled to live in Lutzenberg ) was a Swiss theologian , concert singer , author and folklorist and advocate of the Appenzell folk song .

Life

Alfred Tobler was the son of the teacher and later private teacher for language, singing and music lessons Johann Konrad Tobler (1812–1890) von Lutzenberg. He married Juliana Lutz von Schwellbrunn in 1835 .

In order to support his parents financially, Tobler sang in the taverns of St. Gallen as a teenager . He was sponsored by Ferdinand Huber . After finishing school, Tobler studied theology at the University of Basel from 1866 to 1868 and attended lectures by Immanuel Stockmeyer , Hermann Schulz, Karl Rudolf Hagenbach , Samuel Preiswerk , Karl Steffensen , Hermann von der Goltz , Wilhelm Dilthey , Wilhelm Vischer and Jakob Burckhardt and accepted participated in several of Burckhardt's “auditorium lectures” and guided tours at the Kunsthaus Basel. During his studies in Basel, Tobler lived in the «Alumneum» institution run by Wilhelm Legrand , which had been founded in 1844. He completed his philosophical and theological studies in Zurich and, after passing his exams, was ordained by Antistes Diethelm Georg Finsler in the Grossmünsterkapelle . In 1868 Tobler passed the Philosophical Examination.

In Zurich Tobler married the widow Elise Hess-Füssli, with whom he moved to Stuttgart in 1873 , where he took singing lessons from Julius Stockhausen . In the Württemberg capital he became known as a song and oratorio singer. His vocal lectures, which were appreciated by Karl Attenhofer , Friedrich Hegar , Richard Wiesner and Albert Meyer, accompanied his wife on the piano. After the death of his wife in 1886 he gave up his singing career and returned to his brother Gustav Tobler in Bern . He advised him to devote himself to folklore studies in his Appenzell homeland.

From 1890 Tobler lived in Heiden at Stapfenweg 2. He was the editor of several song and folk music collections and wrote various works on Appenzell history and folklore. This made him known as the “Appenzell singer father”. In 1914, the first section of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich made him an honorary doctorate for his "tireless research and word and manner, custom and history of his Appenzell homeland" .

In 1916 Tobler bought the "biographical sketch of Jakob Burckhard and Paul Heyse " and in 1920 Burckhardt's correspondence with his pupil Albert Brenner . His shorthand notes, which he had made while Burckhardt was singing, he left Otto Markwart to use for his "Jakob Burckhardt work" to celebrate Burckhardt's 100th birthday in 1918.

Alfred Tobler's estate is kept in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library .

Works

  • Kühreihen or Kühreigen, yodelling and yodelling song in Appenzell. With 7 music supplements. Leipzig / Zurich 1890.
  • The Kläusler celebration in Speicher. In: Appenzell Yearbooks, 1897.
  • Sang and sound from Appenzell. A collection of older songs for 4-part male choir. 2nd, increased edition Zurich / Leipzig [1899].
  • Hans Konrad Frick, an Appenzell folk poet. Wolfhalden 1900.
  • Experiences of an Appenzeller in the Neapolitan service 1854–1859. Fehr, St. Gallen 1901 ( PDF ).
  • Next oß mine Buebejohre. St. Gallen 1903.
  • The Appenzell joke. A study from popular life. In: Appenzellian Yearbooks, 1902; 3rd, increased edition Heiden 1905.
  • New jokes and rascals from Appenzell. Pagans 1908.
  • The Appenzell fool community. Pagans 1909.
  • Ulrich Lopacher's Soldier Life, 1860–70. Self-published, Heiden 1912.

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SURNAME Tobler, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, concert singer, writer and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Teufen AR
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1923
Place of death Heiden AR