- Gustav Schwab
Gustav Benjamin Schwab (
June 19 ,1792 –November 4 ,1850 ) was a Germanwriter ,pastor andpublisher .Life
Gustav Schwab was born in
Stuttgart , the son of a professor and was introduced to the humanities early in life. He studied as a scholar of "Tübinger Stift " atEberhard Karls University of Tübingen , his first two years studying Philology and Philosophy, and thereafter Theology. While at university he established a literary club and became a close friend ofLudwig Uhland ,Karl Varnhagen andJustinus Kerner , with whom he published a collection of poems under the title "Deutscher Dichterwald".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 inStuttgart , and in 1837 he started work as a pastor inGomaringen , nearTübingen . 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 myths and
legend s of antiquity, "Sagen des klassischen Altertums", published from 1838 to 1840, was widely used at German schools and became very influential for the reception of classical antiquity in German classrooms.He died at
Stuttgart in 1850.Works
*"Gedichte" (1828)
*"Das Buch der schönsten Geschichten und Sagen" (1837)
*"Sagen des klassischen Altertums" (1838-1840)External links
*http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/schwab.htm de icon
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