Karl Howald
Karl Howald (born March 31, 1796 in Bern , † November 28, 1869 in Sigriswil ) was a conservative Swiss pastor and chronicler .
Life
Karl Howald, the son of a typist , first went to high school (also: Green School ) and graduated from the Bern Art School in 1814 . After studying theology and philosophy at the Bern Academy and the Lausanne Academy , he was ordained as a Reformed pastor in 1821 . From 1821 to 1831 he was secretary of the Bern Bible Society and from 1821 to 1833 preacher at the Inselspital . In 1825 he traveled to Paris to see Philipp Albert Stapfer and in 1827 to Italy . From 1833 to 1869 he was pastor in Sigriswil .
His mostly handwritten estate is now kept in the Burger Library in Bern and contains a wealth of notes and excerpts in 16 volumes, which are illustrated with numerous pen drawings. His six-volume Chronik der Berner Brunnen ( Die Brunnen zu Bern ) contains a lot of other material as well as a linguistically significant transcript of some Bern German lectures by Niklaus Blauner .
In 1888 Heinrich Philipp Loesch had Howald's son draw up his will, in which he dedicated his estate to the maintenance of the Bern fountain.
Works
- The fountains in Bern , 6 volumes
- Sigrisweiler Chronik , 7 volumes, 1844–69
- Mémoires
literature
- Collection of Bernese biographies . Vol. 5, 1906, pp. 282–290 (with Bibl.)
- Hans Sommer: Karl Howald and his Sigriswiler Chronicle. In: Yearbook of Lake Thun and Lake Brienz. 1975, pp. 16-34
- Hans summer: people and poetry of the Bernese Oberland. Francke, Bern 1976, v. a. Pp. 85-87
Individual evidence
- ↑ O. Weber: The delete fund and its donor. In: Die Berner Woche , Vol. 17, 1927, p. 22
Web links
- Karl Howald (Manuscripta historica helvetica) in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
- Christoph Zürcher: Howald, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Karl Howald's estate in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Howald, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pastor and chronicler |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1796 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1869 |
Place of death | Sigriswil |