Gustav Tobler (historian)
Gustav Tobler (* 2. January 1855 in Ilanz ; † 9. July 1921 in Merligen , community Sigriswil ; heimatberechtigt in Lutzenberg and in 1913 an honorary citizen in Bern ) was a Swiss historian and university teachers from the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .
Life
Gustav Tobler was a son of Hans Konrad Tobler, teacher , choir director , composer and author , and Juliana, geb. Lutz. The theologian Alfred Tobler was his brother.
Gustav Tobler attended high school in St. Gallen . From 1875 to 1879 he studied history at the universities of Tübingen , Strasbourg and Zurich . In Zurich in 1879 he received the Dr. phil. From 1880 to 1896 he worked as a high school teacher for history and German in Bern. From 1887 he was a private lecturer and from 1896 to 1921 a full professor of Swiss history at the University of Bern . From 1887 to 1899 he worked as an editor for the scoreboard for Swiss history
Tobler demanded that historiography should encompass not only political events but all areas of life. He published mainly on cultural-historical topics in the field of Bern and Swiss history.
In 1883 he married Anna Bertha Haaf, daughter of Johann Christoph Karl Haaf, a chemist .
Gustav Tobler's estate is in the Bern Burger Library .
literature
- Christian Baertschi: Gustav Tobler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 24, 2012 .
- Edgar Bonjour : Switzerland and Europe. Volume 4. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1976, pp. 251-256.
- Richard Feller : Prof. Gustav Tobler. In: Journal of Swiss History . Volume 1, 1921. S 248–256 (with catalog raisonné ; web access via E-Periodica ).
- Richard Feller, Edgar Bonjour: Historiography of Switzerland from the late Middle Ages to the modern age. Volume 2. Basel / Stuttgart: B. Schwabe 1962, p. 756 f.
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| SURNAME | Tobler, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ilanz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1921 |
| Place of death | Merligen |