Karl Howald

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The Dutch tower , watercolor around 1851
Organ consecration in the Nydegg Church by Jeremias Lorza 1812, drawing

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

  1. ↑ O. Weber: The delete fund and its donor. In: Die Berner Woche , Vol. 17, 1927, p. 22


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personal data
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