Karl Hermann Klaiber

Karl Hermann Klaiber (born May 8, 1835 in Stuttgart , † March 8, 1896 in Hirsau ) was a Lutheran pastor and local researcher from Württemberg.

Life

Klaiber's father, M. Gottfried Klaiber, was a professor at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. The mother Marie was a sister of the poet Wilhelm Hauff . He first attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and from 1853 to 1857 the Protestant seminary in Tübingen because he wanted to become a clergyman. After completing his studies, he initially worked for nine years as vicar and parish administrator in Unterlenningen, Nabern, Ruit, Waldenbuch, Plochingen, Stuttgart and Böblingen. During this time he was a preacher and tutor in Rome between 1859 and 1861. In 1866 he became pastor in Weiler near Weinsberg , in 1874 in Wurmberg and received his doctorate in philosophy.

On January 14, 1885, Klaiber was able to take up a new position as pastor of Hirsau and Ottenbronn . Here he had time to pursue his art and history studies, which he had already begun in Rome. He was particularly interested in the ruins of the Hirsau Monastery , where he carried out measurements and excavations. During the renovation work on the Marienkapelle from 1881–1892, the tombstone with a portrait of the builder Abbot Johannes Hannßmann († 1524) was discovered. The replacement of the late Gothic fountain in the cloister (which was brought to Teinach by order of the ducal) in 1892 by a new three-bowl fountain goes back to Klaiber. But he also campaigned for the preservation and restoration of the Aurelius Church. For being able to prove that the stone coffin found here in 1892 was the first burial place of Duke Berthold I of Zähringen († 1078), Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden awarded him the Zähringer Order of the Lion.

Klaiber died after a serious illness on March 8, 1896 in Hirsau.

Publications (selection)

• Henri Arnaud, pastor and colonel of the Waldensians: a life picture , Stuttgart 1880.
• Documented history of the reformed communities Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg: from the oldest times to the present; a contribution to the history of the Reformed Church in Württemberg , Stuttgart 1884.
• Hirsau monastery. Described for history, antiquity, art and nature lovers , Tübingen 1888.

literature

• Hellmut J. Gebauer, Hartmut Würfele: Significant women and men (Calw. History of a City), Calw 2005, pp. 103-104, ISBN 978-3-9809615-1-6