Karl Pfaff (pedagogue)
Karl Pfaff (born February 22, 1795 in Stuttgart ; † December 6, 1866 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German educator , historian and father of a singer .
Karl Pfaff was born into a family of civil servants and scholars from Württemberg .
He attended seminars in Denkendorf and Maulbronn to prepare for university . From 1812 he studied theology and philology at the University of Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1817 with a thesis on ancient tragedy .
In 1818 Karl Pfaff became a teacher at the pedagogy in Esslingen am Neckar. As early as 1819 he became vice principal . Thereupon he worked within a few years on the provision of teaching material for almost all subjects of the Realschule .
He also wrote historical writings on the history of Württemberg , Esslingen and the imperial cities. The Stuttgart Main State Archives and the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart keep his scientific legacy .
At the 1st Swabian Song Festival in June 1827 he was one of the main speakers. In 1828 he became the first chairman of the Esslinger Liederkranz, which had been founded a year earlier.
In 1841 Karl Pfaff became an honorary citizen of Esslingen.
In 1849 the south-west German choral societies founded the Swabian Choir Association under his leadership .
In memory of Karl Pfaff, the Swabian Singers Association donated a memorial stone that was erected on June 28, 1868 on the Esslinger Maille. Pfaff was buried in the Ebershaldenfriedhof in Esslingen .
Works
- The sources of older Württemberg history and the oldest period of Württemberg historiography (1831)
- Origin and earliest history of the Württemberg Princely House (1836)
- History of the Princely House and State of Württemberg (1839)
- Ulrich Herzog zu Württemberg (Completion and publication of the 3rd volume of Heyd's Ulrich trilogy, 1844)
- History of the city of Stuttgart (1845–1846)
- History of the imperial city of Esslingen (1852)
- History of Möhringen on the Fildern (1854)
- History of the Frauenkirche in Eßlingen and its restoration (1863)
translation
- Aeschines the Socratic Conversations, and Cebes the Theban's paintings . Metzler, Stuttgart 1827 ( Greek prose writers in new translations ), Vol. 23
literature
- Otto Borst: Karl Pfaff . In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia , on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, ed. by Max Miller and Robert Uhland. Vol. 10, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966, pp. 304-345
- Eugen Schneider : Pfaff, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 595 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Pfaff in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfaff, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator, historian and singer father |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1866 |
| Place of death | Esslingen am Neckar |