Titus Tobler

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Titus Tobler (born July 25, 1806 in Stein , † January 21, 1877 in Munich ) was a Swiss doctor, dialect researcher and Palestine researcher .

Life

Titus Tobler, portrait by Carl Gonzenbach 1875

Titus Tobler was born in Stein ( Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden ) in 1806 as the son of a Reformed pastor. After basic training at the canton school in Trogen AR , he studied medicine in Zurich , Vienna , Würzburg and Paris . From 1827 he worked as a practicing doctor in Teufen AR .

In addition to his work as a doctor, he worked in political offices and worked as a writer and journalist. In 1830 he published the educational book The House Mother . To this day, his work Appenzeller Sprachschatz (1837) is recognized in dialect research. In 1834 he left Teufen and worked in various Appenzell villages. From 1840 he settled in Horn TG on Lake Constance , where he worked as a spa doctor until 1871. Tobler ran successfully in the parliamentary elections in 1854 and was a member of the National Council until 1857 . At his suggestion, Good Friday was made a public holiday in all Reformed cantons.

When he retired in 1871, he moved from Lake Constance to Munich. Titus Tobler died there on January 17, 1877. In his will, he had ordered that his body be buried in his home town of Wolfhalden .

Palestine exploration

Tobler achieved its real importance through his research on Palestine. He was considered one of the best connoisseurs of Palestine literature , so that he is sometimes referred to as the nestor of medieval travelogues . Tobler visited Palestine for the first time in 1835. His travel experiences, which he published in two volumes in 1839 under the title Lustreise ins Morgenland , received great attention. Further trips to Palestine that Tobler undertook in 1845, 1857 and 1865 were also reflected in literary terms.

His greatest merit is the compilation of all known printed and unprinted sources on Palestine, which he published in 1876 in his Bibliographica geographica Palaestinae . This work and many other publications on Palestine earned him the reputation of a pioneer in Palestineology . To compile his Palestine bibliography, Tobler visited libraries all over Europe and made contact with other Palestine researchers.

In 1865 Tobler made his fourth and last trip to Palestine. Due to the outbreak of a cholera epidemic , however, he was unable to achieve all of the planned goals. After moving to Munich (1871), he devoted himself entirely to his research.

Fonts

Helvetica

  • The housemother. A book for the people, Bühler 1830
  • Appenzell vocabulary, Zurich 1837 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Old dialect samples from German-speaking Switzerland, St. Gallen 1869

Palestine studies and travelogues

  • Pleasure trip into the Orient, Zurich 1839 ( Volume 1 in the Google book search)
  • Bethlehem in Palestine: Topographically and historically depicted according to sight and sources, St. Gallen and Bern 1849 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Golgotha: His churches and monasteries, St. Gallen and Bern 1851 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Thinking sheets from Jerusalem, St. Gallen and Konstanz 1853 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Two books, Topography of Jerusalem and its Surroundings, Berlin 1853–1854 ( Volume 1 in the Google Book Search; Volume 2 in the Google Book Search)
  • Contribution to the medical topography of Jerusalem, Berlin 1855 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Titus Tobler's third migration to Palestine in 1857, Gotha 1859 ( full text in the google book search)
  • Bibliographica geographica Palaestinae, Leipzig 1867 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Nazareth in Palestine, Berlin 1868 ( full text in Google book search)
  • The great dispute between the Latins and the Greeks in Palestine, St. Gallen 1870 ( full text in the Google book search)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Titus Tobler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Altherr : Titus Tobler and Good Friday. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . April 17, 2014, as well as Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 18, 1962. In the literature, e.g. B. the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, it is said imprecisely that thanks to Tobler , Good Friday is a major holiday throughout Switzerland. However, this did not and does not apply to the Catholic cantons. See list of cantonal public holidays (PDF; 126 kB)
  2. ↑ Furrer (ADB), p. 401.
  3. ^ Stefan Schröder: Between Christianity and Islam . Berlin 2009.
  4. ↑ See Goren (2003), p. 221.
personal data
SURNAME Tobler, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and Palestine researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone AR
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1877
Place of death Munich