Gustav Schwab

Schwab, Gustav (Stuttgart, 1792-1850, Stuttgart), was educated at the Stuttgart grammar school (Gymnasium) and the Tübinger Stift, entering the ministry of the Lutheran Church. As a student he was a close friend of L. Uhland, J. Kerner, and K. Mayer, and was associated with the Schwäbischer Dichterkreis. In 1815 he undertook a journey through Germany, in the course of which he visited almost every reputable German writer, including Goethe as well as the younger Romantic authors such as A. von Chamisso, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and J. and W. Grimm. After a brief spell of teaching at the Tübinger Stift he became classics master (with the title professor) at his old school in Stuttgart (1817-37). From 1827 to 1837 he was also editor of the literary columns of the Stuttgart Morgenblatt, and from 1833 to 1838 he edited jointly with Chamisso the Deutscher Musenalmanach. From 1837 to 1841 he had a living at Gomaringen near Tübingen and then became pastor at St Leonhard's in Stuttgart. He held additional offices in the ecclesiastical and educational administration of Württemberg.

Schwab was a prolific, if unoriginal, writer. His own poems (Gedichte, 1828-9, amplified in 1838) are largely forgotten, although the ballads ‘Das Gewitter’, ‘Der Reiter und der Bodensee’, and ‘Der Riese von Marbach’ remained popular throughout the 19th c. In 1815 he began with the collection of student songs Neues deutsches allgemeines Commers- und Liederbuch (which included among his own contributions ‘Bemooster Bursche zieh ich aus’), and followed this with Romanzen aus dem Jugendleben Herzog Christophs von Württemberg (1816). He found his most congenial vein with the collection Buch der schönsten Geschichten und Sagen (2 vols., 1836-7), achieving his greatest success with Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums (3 vols., 1838-40, repeatedly reissued).

Schwab was an anthologist, an editor of chap-books (Deutsche Volksbücher, 3 vols., 1836-7), a travel writer, and the author of Schillers Leben (1840). His own biography was written by his son C. Th. Schwab (1883). His correspondence with the brothers A. and D. E. Stöber, ed. K. Walter, appeared in 1930.

Gustav Schwab.

Gustav Benjamin Schwab (June 19, 1792 – November 4, 1850) was a German writer, pastor and publisher.

Contents 1 Life 2 Citations 3 Works 4 External links

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 at Eberhard 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 of Ludwig Uhland, Karl Varnhagen and Justinus 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 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 myths and legends 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.

In his later years, he traveled regularly to Überlingen am Bodensee to enjoy the waters at the city's spa;^[1] he died at Stuttgart in 1850.

Citations

1. ^ Alfons Semler, Überlingen: Bilder aus der Geschichte einer kleine Reichsstadt,Singen, 1949, p. 173.

Works

• Gedichte (1828)
• Das Buch der schönsten Geschichten und Sagen (1837)
• Sagen des klassischen Altertums (1838-1840)

External links

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