Salomon Tobler

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Salomon Tobler
Salomon Tobler 1794-1875 with his son Adolf Tobler, oil painting by Ed. Steiner

Salomon Tobler (born December 10, 1794 in Zurich ; † November 19, 1878 there ) was a Swiss pastor and poet .

Life

Salomon Tobler was born in Zurich in 1794 as the son of the teacher and pastor Johann Kaspar Tobler and his wife Ursula Hirzel. From 1810 he attended the humanistic grammar school, and in 1816 he passed the theological exam. From 1816 he worked as a parish vicar in Mönchaltorf , Wülflingen and Wädenswil . In 1819 he became pastor of Sternenberg , and in 1820 he married. In 1826 he took over the pastoral position in Hirzel .

In 1820 he married the née Margaretha Diezinger, daughter of Johannes Diezinger. In 1836 he published the epic Die Enkel Winkelried 's . This work deals with the resistance of the Nidwalden against the French troops in 1798 ( days of horror in Nidwalden ).

In 1839 the situation for Salomon Tobler in Hirzel became intolerable. As a liberal, he criticized the events of the Züriputsch to his largely conservative community and therefore had to change jobs in 1840. Until the end of his professional career he was in charge of the parish of Embrach .

Inspired by the success of his first work, he began planning another epic. First he dealt with Huldrych Zwingli , but when his friend Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich published an epic about Zwingli in 1840, he broke off this work and began to study Gustav Adolf . Ultimately, he chose Christopher Columbus and published the epic Columbus in 1846 . Although this work was praised in the professional world, it was less successful than Die Enkel Winkelried's . Further plans for an epic about Niklaus von Flüe remained unrealized.

Tobler's wife died in 1853. In 1864 he resigned from his pastoral office and moved to Zurich, where he lived with one of his sons until his death.

Salomon Tobler was the father of the Germanist Ludwig Tobler (1827–1895), the Romanist Adolf Tobler (1835–1910) and the historian Wilhelm Tobler.

Works

  • Salomon Tobler: Winkelried's grandchildren. Epic poetry . S. Höhr, Zurich 1836 ( google.com ).
  • Salomon Tobler: Columbus. Epic poetry . Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1846 ( google.com ).
  • Salomon Tobler: Poems from the estate . In: Gesellschaft Zürcherischer Geschichtsfreunde (Ed.): Zürcher Taschenbuch . tape 1 . Zurich 1878, p. 108-119 ( archive.org ).

literature

  • Ludwig Tobler: Salomon Tobler of Zurich. His life and work together with some communications from his estate . In: Gesellschaft Zürcherischer Geschichtsfreunde (Ed.): Zürcher Taschenbuch . tape 1 . Zurich 1878, p. 87-107 ( archive.org ).
  • Heinrich Kurz : History of German Literature . 4th edition. tape 4 . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1881, p. 361 ( archive.org ).
  • Jakob Baechtold :  Tobler, Salomon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 394 f.
  • The Tobler family from Zurich / 1626 - 1926. A historical study by Werner Ganz . Printed as a manuscript / Zurich 1926

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Tobler: Salomon Tobler of Zurich. His life and work together with some communications from his estate . In: Gesellschaft Zürcherischer Geschichtsfreunde (Ed.): Zürcher Taschenbuch . tape 1 . Zurich 1878, p. 87-107 ( archive.org ).
  2. ^ Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: Salomon Tobler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 24, 2012 , accessed June 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Jakob Baechtold:  Tobler, Salomon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 394 f.
  4. ↑ Heinrich Kurz : History of German literature . 4th edition. tape  4 . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1881, p. 361 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pastor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1878
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland