Gustav Schwab
Gustav Benjamin Schwab (19 June 1792 – 4 November 1850) was a German writer, pastor and publisher.
Life
Gustav Schwab was born in
In the spring of 1813, he made a journey to northern Germany, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Rückert, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Adelbert von Chamisso and others. In 1818 he became a high school teacher in Stuttgart, and in 1837 he started work as a pastor in Gomaringen, near Tübingen. In 1841, he moved back to Stuttgart, where he was first pastor and then from 1845 educational counselor for Stuttgart's high school system. In 1847 he received an honorary Doctorate from his old university.
Schwab's collection of
In his later years, he traveled regularly to Überlingen am Bodensee to enjoy the waters at the city's spa.[2] He died in Stuttgart in 1850.
Works
- Gedichte (1828)
- Das Buch der schönsten Geschichten und Sagen (1837)
- Sagen des klassischen Altertums (1838–1840)
- ISBN 9780394734026)
Citations
- ISBN 978-3-406-58154-0.
- ^ Alfons Semler, Überlingen: Bilder aus der Geschichte einer kleine Reichsstadt,Singen, 1949, p. 173.
External links
- Media related to Gustav Schwab at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about Gustav Schwab at Internet Archive
- Works by Gustav Schwab at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- gutenberg.spiegel.de (in German)