Valentin Schwöbel

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Valentin Schwöbel (born February 22, 1863 in Weinheim ; † May 12, 1921 ) was a German Protestant theologian with a focus on Palestine geography.

Life

Valentin Schwöbel was born in 1863 as the son of the farmer Georg M. Schwöbel on the Nahe Bacherhof near Weinheim. Here he attended the community school and switched to the Heidelberg high school. After graduating from high school (1822) he studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg, Zurich, Berlin and Göttingen. In 1889 Schwöbel took up a pastor's post in Sulzbach (now a district of Billigheim). In the same year he married Marie Hamel († 1894). From 1893 he worked as a pastor in the Mannheim state prison.

Inspired by his first trip to the Orient in 1898, Schwöbel continued his education in the areas of geography, geology, paleontology and the Arabic language. He specialized in the field of Palestine geography. In Heidelberg he received his doctorate in 1903 on the subject of "The Galilee Roads and Settlements" (Dr. phil.). In 1905 he took part in the research excursions of the German Palestine Institute (Jerusalem) under Gustaf Dalman on a scholarship . With his death (1921) he left some of his travel photographs to the Greifswald-based Gustaf-Dalman-Institut . Some of his recordings can be found e.g. B. in the standard work “Palestine. The landscape in maps and pictures ”(1930) by the Palestinian geographer Robert Koeppel.

Publications (selection)

  • The national nature of Palestine. Part 1 , Leipzig 1914.
  • The transport routes and settlements of Galilee in their dependence on the natural conditions , Leipzig 1903 (also dissertation, Heidelberg, 1903).

literature

  • Ulrich Hübner (Ed.): Palaestina exploranda. Studies on the exploration of Palestine in the 19th and 20th centuries, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine (German Association for the Exploration of Palestine: Treatises of the German Palestine Association 34), Wiesbaden 2006, therein: p. 23.
  • Robert Koeppel: Palestine. The landscape in maps and pictures , Tübingen 1930, therein: p. IV.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Geographische Zeitschrift 1921, 27-28, p. 178.
  2. ↑ On the curriculum vitae up to 1903 see: Valentin Schwöbel: The traffic routes and settlements of Galilee in their dependence on the natural conditions , Leipzig 1903 (including dissertation, Heidelberg, 1903), therein: p. 57 (accessed on May 27, 2017).
  3. ↑ See: Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1910 (accessed on May 27, 2017): “Dr. Valentin Schwöbel, pastor, possible chaplain at the state prison in Mannheim ”.
  4. ↑ See: List of course participants ( memento of the original from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Access date: May 27, 2017). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deiahl.de
personal data
SURNAME Schwöbel, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian (focus: Palestine geography)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1921