Karl Gauss

Karl Otto Gauss (born June 5, 1867 in Basel , † February 8, 1938 in Liestal ) was a Swiss pastor and historian .

Gravestone in the Liestal cemetery

Life

Karl Otto Gauss, son of the architect Hermann Rudolf Gauss (including builder of the synagogue in Basel ), studied theology in Basel and Göttingen and was ordained in 1888 . 1892-1897 he was pastor in Benken and then until 1928 in Liestal. 1911–1935 he was also head of the parish convention in Baselland. In addition to his pastoral work, Gauss carried out church and local historical research on the Basel landscape. In 1910 the theological faculty of the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate .

His daughter Julia Gauss became a historian and educator and his son Hermann Gauss became a philosopher and university professor.

Fonts (selection)

• The saints of the churches in Baselland. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 2, 1903, pp. 122–162. ( Digitized version )
• History of the Reformation in Liestal , n.d. 1917
• School history of the city of Liestal, Liestal 1918
• The parishes of the Basel Stadt und Land church and their pastors from the Reformation to the present day , Basel 1930
• History of the Basel landscape and the canton of Basel landscape, 2 volumes, Liestal 1932

literature

• H. Senn: Pastor D. Karl Otto Gauss. In: Basler Jahrbuch , 1939, pp. 127–141.
• Otto Gass: Karl Gauss as a Basel historian. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch , Volume 1, Liestal 1942, pp. 8–27.
• Fritz La Roche: Karl Gauss. In: Committed to the Reformation, Basel 1979, pp. 155–159.

Web links

• Michael Raith : Gauss, Karl Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Gauss, Karl Otto in the person lexicon of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
• Publications by Karl Gauss in the Opac der Regesta Imperii