Carl August Bächtold
Carl August Bächtold (born February 15, 1838 in Merishausen ; † February 5, 1921 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss Protestant pastor, teacher and local history researcher.
Life
Carl August Bächtold's grandfather was the doctor Johannes Bächtold, his father the pastor of Merishausen, Johann Caspar Bächtold. Carl August attended grammar school in Schaffhausen , where he was a student of Karl Knies . This suggested that he and his schoolmate Ernst Wilhelm Götzinger study German and theology. Bächtold then studied theology at the University of Basel from 1856 to 1859 , fellow students were Götzinger and other Schaffhausers - such as Gottlob Kirchhofer and Johannes Meyer - and then attended the University of Tübingen for a semester . Due to illness, he was unable to extend his studies in Tübingen.
He became vicar in Gächlingen and passed the theological examination in Schaffhausen. In 1862 he succeeded Pastor Mezger in Gächlingen. In 1869 he was appointed pastor on the Steig in Schaffhausen. He held this office until 1912. He also worked as a religion and history teacher at the boys' secondary school. From 1874 to 1894 he was city school councilor and head of the ministerial library, from 1890 to 1918 city librarian and from 1912 to 1918 city archivist at the city archive of Schaffhausen . In 1871 he became a member of the Schaffhausen Historical Society .
In response to the news that the Stuttgart Literary Association wanted to publish the chronicle of Johann Jakob Rüeger , he made a copy of the chronicle. On July 9, 1878, a specially founded commission decided to publish the Rüeger Chronicle , which appeared in three parts (in two volumes) from 1892 onwards. Employees were mostly the members of the historical association, including Johann Heinrich Bäschlin and Albert im Thurn .
In 1903 Bächtold was awarded the title of honorary doctor by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich . In addition to numerous works on Schaffhausen's history, he also published treatises on legal and church history. In 1918 he resigned from all offices after a stroke.
literature
- Gertraud and Rudolf Gamper: Bächtold, Carl August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Heinrich Wanner-Keller: Pastor Dr. Carl August Bächtold 1838–1921. In: Historischer Verein Schaffhausen (ed.): Schaffhauser contributions to history , Volume 34, 1957, pp. 157–162.
Web links
- Publications by and about Carl August Bächtold in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Carl August Bächtold in the catalog of the German National Library
- City archive of Schaffhausen with a list of Bächtold's people
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bächtold, Carl August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baechtold, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pastor, teacher and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merishausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1921 |
| Place of death | Schaffhausen |