Josef Rabl (alpinist)

Josef Rabl (* 19th January 1844 in Vienna , † 29. August 1923 ) was an Austrian mountaineer and Travel book - author .

Life

Josef Rabl initially worked as a bank clerk, but from around the age of 30 he turned completely to alpine writing. At the beginning he worked for the magazine “Der Tourist”. As a result, he wrote countless specialist articles and travel guides. In 1882 he became an honorary citizen of Dölsach . His "Tauernbahnführer" (1906), where the journeys on the "New Austrian Alpine Railways" were described in detail for the first time, is legendary. In old age, Rabl was impoverished, sick and could only survive with the help of friends.

Fonts (selection)

• Ill. Guide through Upper Austria . 1886
• Ill. Guide through Bohemia . 1887
• Ill. Guide through Carinthia . 1898
• Ill. Guides on the Tauern Railway and its access lines . 1906
• Ill. Glockner guide . 1881
• The mountaineer in the high mountains (according to m. J. Meurer) . 1893
• The development of high tourism in the Austrian Alps (according to G.Gröger) . 1890
• My memories (with portrait) . 1923

literature

• R. Hösch:  Rabl Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 360 f. (Direct links on p. 360 , p. 361 ).
• Karl Kantner: On Josef Rabl's 80th birthdays. In: Bergsteiger , Vol. 2 (1924), pp. 21 ff. ISSN  1435-8905

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Rabl in the catalog of the German National Library
• E. Oberegger, On the biography of Josef Rabl
• Travel on the Wocheinerbahn Assling-Görz
• Travel on the Karst Railway Gorizia-Trieste
• Michael A. Populorum, short biography of Josef Rabl (with portrait)