Georg Christoph Tobler

Georg Christoph Tobler (born January 1, 1757 in Ermatingen ; † May 8, 1812 in Wald ) was a Swiss pastor , translator and writer .

Life

Georg Christoph Tobler grew up as the son of pastor Johannes Tobler (1732–1808) in Zurich. There he studied the Greek poets early on and then theology . He was ordained in 1779 . He then went on long journeys through France and Germany and stayed in Weimar in the summer of 1781 as a guest of Karl Ludwig von Knebels . There he associated with Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Johann Gottfried Herder and at the Weimar court . In 1782 he wrote his essay Die Natur , the authorship of which was often attributed to Goethe.

In 1782 Tobler became a catechist in Fluntern near Zurich and in 1784, after the departure of Johann Jakob Stolz (1753–1823), a preacher in Offenbach am Main . From 1793 to 1799 he was in charge of the parish of Veltheim near Winterthur . In 1800 he was a member of the Senate of the Helvetic Republic in Bern for a short time and returned to Zurich after it was dissolved. In 1801 he received the parish of forest in the canton of Zurich .

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Tobler has made known mainly as a translator from Greek: 1781 appeared his Sophocles transmission, 1782 (in German Merkur ) of the Prometheus of Aeschylus , 1784 The Argonauts , later pieces from the Greek Anthology. In 1801 he wrote the speech: Johann Caspar Lavater , the truth teacher and philanthropist .

literature

Ludwig Hirzel : Goethe's Relationship to Zurich. P. 22 ff.
Shu Ching Ho: Tobler, Georg Christoph (1757-1812). In: Manfred Wenzel (Ed.): Goethe Handbook. Supplements. Vol. 2: Natural Sciences. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, pp. 671–672.
Markus Lutz : Necrology of memorable Swiss from the 18th century. 1812, p. 525 f.
Jakob Baechtold : Tobler, Georg Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 392.

Web links

Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Georg Christoph Tobler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ About Tobler's part in the fragment about nature in the Tiefurter Journal cf. Writings of the Goethe Society VII, 393 ff .; on the history of research on this question: Holger Dainat: Goethe's 'Nature' or: 'What is an author?' In: Klaus Kreimeier , Georg Stanitzek (eds.): Paratexts in literature, film, television. Akademie, Berlin 2004, pp. 101–116.

personal data
SURNAME	Tobler, Georg Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss pastor, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ermatingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 8, 1812
Place of death	Forest ZH

[1] About Tobler's part in the fragment about nature in the Tiefurter Journal cf. Writings of the Goethe Society VII, 393 ff .; on the history of research on this question: Holger Dainat: Goethe's 'Nature' or: 'What is an author?' In: Klaus Kreimeier , Georg Stanitzek (eds.): Paratexts in literature, film, television. Akademie, Berlin 2004, pp. 101–116.