Albert Knapp
Albert Knapp (25 July 1798, Tübingen - 18 June 1864, Stuttgart) was a German poet and animal welfare activist.
Albert Knapp
Albert Knapp · Christoterpe, 1833. · Public domain
- Name
- Albert Knapp
- Born
- 25 July 1798
- Birthplace
- Tübingen
- Died
- 18 June 1864
- Place of death
- Stuttgart
- Occupation
- Poet, animal welfare activist
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Tübingen
- Languages
- German
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Albert Knapp (25 July 1798, Tübingen - 18 June 1864, Stuttgart) was a German poet and animal welfare activist.
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Albert Knapp (1798–1864) was a parson, pastor and poet, among other activities, of German nationality. The parson died in Stuttgart.
Albert Knapp was educated at University of Tübingen. The parson was a member of ATV Arminia zu Tübingen. Languages used include German.
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• Name — Albert Knapp • Born — 25 July 1798 • Birthplace — Tübingen • Died — 18 June 1864 • Place of death — Stuttgart • Occupation — Poet, animal welfare activist
Biography
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He studied theology at Tübingen, became vicar in Feuerbach (1820) and filled other positions until he made a reputation in the Hospitalkirche at Stuttgart (1836). After becoming pastor at Stuttgart, he had applied himself to poetry, especially to the composition of hymns and other poetry of a religious character. Rev. Knapp is also distinguished as an important figure in the history of the animal welfare movement in Germany. In 1837, he established the Stuttgart Society, the first German animal protection organisation in Stuttgart.
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Albert Knapp is recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded as poet, writer, pastor, translator and parson.
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1798
Albert Knapp was born on 25 July 1798.
1864
Albert Knapp died on 18 June 1864.
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He published his hymns annually in a small volume between 1833 and 1853, under the title of Christoterpe. Among his other publications in verse are three collections of poems (Stuttgart: Christliche gedichten, 1829; Neuern gedichte, 1834; and Gedichte, neueste Folge, 1843); Evangelischer Liederschatz für Kirche und Haus (“Evangelical treasury of songs for church and home,” 1837; 3d ed., 1865), a collection taken from the liturgies and hymns of every Christian century, to which Christenlieder (1841) is a supplement; and the cycles Hohenstauffen (1839) and Bilder der Vorwelt (1862). He also wrote prose: Das Leben von Ludwig Hofacker. See also Gesammelten prosaischen Schriften (“Collected prose,” 1870-75; published posthumously).
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- 1.Ulrich Trohler and Andreas-Holger Maehle, "Anti-Vivisection in Nineteenth-century Germany and Switzerland: Motives and Methods" in Vivisection in Historical Perspective, ed. Nicolaas A. Rupke (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 150
- 2.Posluszna, Elzbieta. (2015). Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security. Elsevier. p. 62.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Gerok, K., Albert Knapp als schwäbischer Dichter (Stuttgart 1881)
- Knapp, A., Knapp als Dichter und Schriftsteller (Tübingen 1913)
- Ulrich Trohler and Andreas-Holger Maehle, "Anti-vivisection in Nineteenth-century Germany and Switzerland: Motives and Methods" in Vivisection in Historical Perspective, ed. Nicolaas A. Rupke (London: Routledge, 1987), 149-187.
- Werner Raupp (Ed.): Gelebter Glaube. Erfahrungen und Lebenszeugnisse aus unserem Land. Ein Lesebuch, Metzingen/Württ.: Ernst Franz-Verlag 1993, p. 236–241, 391 (Introduction, Source material, Lit.).
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