Johann Heinrich Pabst (25 January 1785 – 28 July 1838) was a German-Austrian physician, philosopher and

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who was a native of

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Biography

In 1807 he earned his medical doctorate at the

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and afterwards relocated to

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. Subsequently, he served as a military physician for an Austrian battalion during the

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. In 1810 he resigned from his position at a hospital in

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on account of severe illness. During convalescence his primary interests turned to

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and philosophy. In the 1820s Pabst formed a close friendship with Austrian philosopher Anton Günther (1783–1863), and the two men collaborated on the treatise "''Janusköpfe für Philosophie und Theologie''" (Heads of

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for philosophy and theology). Pabst was also the author of the following works: * ''Der Mensch und seine Geschichte'' (Man and his history), 1830. * ''Gibt es eine Philosophie des positiven Christenthums?'' (Is there a philosophy of positive Christianity?), 1832. * ''Adam und Christus. Zur Theorie der Ehe'' (Adam and Christ, contribution to the theory of matrimony), 1835.

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Austrian Christian theologians Austrian philosophers 1785 births 1838 deaths People from Northeim (district) University of Göttingen alumni Lay theologians German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-theologian-stub