Johann Georg Gustav Tobler
Johann Georg Gustav Tobler (born December 17, 1769 in Trogen ; † August 10, 1843 in Nyon ; resident in Wolfhalden ) was a pedagogue and writer from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .
Life
Johann Georg Gustav Tobler was the son of Hans Jakob Tobler, butcher and country woman and Ursula Lutz. He was the half-brother of Johann Heinrich Tobler . In 1802 he married Maria Magdalena Gengenbach. From 1779 he lived as an orphan in the Samaritan house in Wolfhalden. In 1781 he got an apprenticeship as a baker. Then he had a job in the mousselin factory in Gais . From 1792 he studied theology in Basel . He worked as a tutor .
In 1800 Tobler met Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Burgdorf , in whose institutions in Münchenbuchsee and Yverdon he worked at the invitation of Johannes Niederer until 1808. Tobler took over the management of a factory school in Mulhouse in 1809 . In 1811 he left Mulhouse and worked for a few years as a writer and tutor before he founded a boys' education institution in Arbon in 1820 . He handed the management over to his son Gustav Tobler in 1831 and moved to Nyon in 1838. There, his younger son Eduard Tobler ran an educational institute.
literature
- Ernst Martin, Bettina Diethelm: Johann Georg Gustav Tobler in the mirror of his letters to Pestalozzi. Pestalozzianum Publishing House, Zurich 2000.
Web links
- Johannes Gruntz-Stoll: Johann Georg Gustav Tobler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 5, 2012 , accessed April 24, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Tobler, Johann Georg Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tobler, Johann Georg; Tobler, Gustav; Tobler, JG |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss educator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trogen AR |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1843 |
| Place of death | Nyon |