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

Life

Gustav Schwab was born in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, the son of the philosopher

Johann Christoph Schwab Johann Christoph Schwab (10 December 1743 - 15 April 1821) was a Kingdom of Württemberg, Württemberg philosophy, philosopher. Life Johann Christoph Schwab was born in Ilsfeld, a small country town in the hills north of Stuttgart. His father wa ...

: he was introduced to the humanities early in life. After attending Gymnasium Illustre, he studied as a scholar of ''

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'' at

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, 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 Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest i ...

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and

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, 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

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and others. In 1818 he became a high school teacher in

, and in 1837 he started work as a pastor in

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, near

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. 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

myth Myth is a folklore genre consisting of Narrative, narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or Origin myth, origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not Objectivity (philosophy), ...

s and

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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. There is a still available English translation with a foreword of

Werner Jaeger Werner Wilhelm Jaeger (30 July 1888 – 19 October 1961) was a German-American classicist. Life Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was born in Lobberich, Rhenish Prussia in the German Empire. He attended school in Lobberich and at the Gymnasium Thomaeum in ...

In his later years, he traveled regularly to Überlingen am Bodensee to enjoy the waters at the city's spa;Alfons Semler, ''Überlingen: Bilder aus der Geschichte einer kleine Reichsstadt,''Singen, 1949, p. 173. he died in Stuttgart in 1850.

Works

*''Gedichte'' (1828) *''Das Buch der schönsten Geschichten und Sagen'' (1837) *''Sagen des klassischen Altertums'' (1838–1840) **'' Gods and Heroes: Myths and Epics of Ancient Greece'' ()

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External links

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