Karl Schaible

Karl Heinrich Schaible

Karl Heinrich Schaible (born April 7, 1824 in Offenburg ; † November 21, 1899 in Heidelberg ) was a German doctor, revolutionary , linguist and writer .

Life

After attending grammar school in Offenburg and for the last two years of school at the Lyceum in Rastatt, Karl Schaible studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . In 1843 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Freiburg . In 1846 he joined the Neckarbund fraternity in Heidelberg. In 1846 he founded the Offenburg gymnastics club together with Franz Volk and others. Because of his involvement in political activities within the student body, he was arrested in Rastatt in 1847 shortly before his exams on the trip from Heidelberg to Offenburg . After nine months of imprisonment in a narrow, dark cell and numerous lengthy, exhausting interrogations in which he was supposed to reveal the identity of conspirators, his health had deteriorated to such an extent that, at the urging of the prison doctor and bail of 4,000 guilders, he was forced into the House of his father, an Offenburg doctor, was released. While still bedridden, he was sentenced to a one-year term in the workhouse for a distant attempt at high treason, which he did not have to undertake, however, as he fell under an amnesty pronounced in March 1848 , which the Baden government under the influence of the February Revolution in France to stabilize the domestic political situation in Baden. After the suppression of the Hecker uprising in April 1848, which the Offenburg youth and thus also Schaible had joined, he managed to flee to Strasbourg . In Strasbourg and later also in Metz , he visited the local hospitals as part of his medical studies.

In the spring of 1849, Schaible returned to Baden from his first exile to join the Offenburg Freischaren in the May Revolution . By the revolutionary government he was initially appointed adjunct to the civil commissioner of the Offenburg district, later civil commissioner and finally war commissioner. After the revolution was suppressed, he was able to flee to Strasbourg again, where he was exposed to morning hunts by the French authorities and therefore went to Nancy in mid-August 1849 , where he studied French at the Académie des Sciences until January 1850. He then stayed until November 1853 to continue his studies in Paris. During this time he was exposed to constant spying by German government agents. He was only able to avoid expulsion in 1851 because Thierry, who was then Vice-President of the Paris Municipal Council, spoke out on his behalf. He came to England for the first time in August 1851 when he accompanied his host Perret to the Great Exhibition in London . After a four-week stay and further developed knowledge of English, he returned to Paris, where after the coup of Napoleon III. the situation for German exiles worsened. When Schaible was not admitted to the medical exam in Paris, he went to the University of Basel , which, after recognition of his previous academic achievements, admitted him to the exam in April 1853 and obtained his doctorate in medicine and surgery. On his return to Paris, in the late summer of that year, he received an offer from the French Foreign Ministry to monitor the German press. When he refused this offer, he was expelled from France in November.

He decided to go to England. In London he met many old friends and acquaintances again, including Ferdinand Freiligrath , Gottfried Kinkel , Lothar Bucher , Karl Blind , Theodor Goldstücker , Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Johannes Ronge , Amand Goegg , Richard Wagner , Gustav Adolf Bergenroth , Hermann Müller-Strübing (1812–1893), Arnold Ruge and the ophthalmologist Eduard Bronner . He gave up the medical profession and initially became a private teacher for exam candidates at universities in the subjects of natural history, physiology with hygiene and languages ​​with a history of literature. In a short time he became a teacher at several secondary schools in London. He became an examiner and later a member of the Senate of the College Preceptors and an examiner of the University of London . In 1862 he became a member of the teaching staff at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich . Initially working as an instructor, he was appointed head of department and professor in 1870. In 1882 he retired and then lived again in Baden, having been able to return to Germany in 1861 due to an unconditional amnesty for those who were politically persecuted by the Baden Revolution. From 1883 to 1892 he lived in Heidelberg, then in Freiburg and from 1894 in Offenburg. Most recently from 1897 he lived in Heidelberg again.

Schaible was the author of numerous specialist articles and later independent works in the fields of science, hygiene, history and education. He also worked as a reviewer.

Awards

In his hometown of Offenburg the Karl-Heinrich-Schaible-Stadion was named after him.

Fonts

• Practical elementary exercises in the art of thinking , 1860
• On the death penalty and imprisonment, with special reference to England , 1869
• History of Germans in England from the first Germanic settlements in Britain to the end of the 18th century , 1885
• German catchwords , 1885
• Shakespeare the author of his plays , 1889
• The Jews in England from the Eighth Century to the Present - A Picture of Cultural History , 1890
• Germany a hundred years ago , 1892
• Higher Education for Women in Great Britain , 1894
• Thirty-seven years from the life of an exile , 1895 ( digitized version )
• English language blunders: use of ridiculous words and idioms by English speaking Germans. A humorous lecture by O'Clarus Hiebslac , 1896

literature

• Baden Biographies , Part V, p. 687 ff. ( Digitized version )
• 196. Schaible, Carl . In: Hans Fischer, Gerhard Becker: List of members of the Corps Suevia in Freiburg im Breisgau 1815–1955 , p. 28.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 188-190.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 188.