Karl Robert Pabst

Karl Robert Pabst (born July 10, 1809 in Elberfeld , † April 26, 1873 in Bern ) was a German-Swiss philologist.

Life

Born the son of a teacher, Pabst went to the Erfurt grammar school and studied philology in Halle and Breslau . During his studies he became a member of the old Halle fraternity of Germania in 1828 and of the old Breslau fraternity of Arminia in 1829 , in which he acted as speaker and writer . After his studies he worked until his death in 1833 as a private tutor with Franz Passow in Breslau, then until 1834 with police district commissioner Laubert von Nimptsch in Jaechkowitzt in Silesia. In 1834 Pabst was arrested for his fraternity activity and taken to the Berlin House Bailiwick, where he finally confessed after months of interrogation. In 1834 he came to the Kolberg Fortress to begin his sentence , where he conducted philosophical studies. In 1835 he was finally sentenced by the Berlin Higher Regional Court with incapacity and 15 years arrest . After his sentence was reduced, he was released in 1838.

After he was denied permission to emigrate, he went illegally to Switzerland in 1838 and accepted an apprenticeship in Wabern with Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek , who was also a fraternity member. After Pabat had passed his bankruptcy examination in 1839 with the Bern government, he worked as a teacher and later as a high school professor for ancient languages at the high school in Biel . In 1846 he went to the canton school in Bern as a professor and rector. 1840 Pabst at the University of Berne Dr. phil. doctorate , where he then until his death as a professor of German literature was active.

His brothers were the musician, composer and Königsberg music director August Pabst and the writer, councilor and dramaturge at the Dresden court theater Julius Pabst .

Publications (selection)

• De diis Graecorum fatidicis seu de religione qua Graecorum oracula nitantur. Dissertation University of Bern 1840.
• Concerning the care of the beautiful as an essential part of the high school activity. Bern 1853.
• Theodor Müller's life and work in Switzerland. 3 volumes 1861–1863.
• A jubilant trip between two old gentlemen from the Breslau fraternity. Wroclaw 1864.
• About ghosts in legend and poetry. Bern 1867.
• Lectures on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan. Bern 1881 (published posthumously by Friedrich Edinger).

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 265-266.

Web links

• Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Karl Robert Pabst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .