Johann Heinrich Pabst

Who was Johann Heinrich Pabst?

Johann Heinrich Pabst was a German-Austrian physician, philosopher and lay theologian who was a native of Lindau in Eichsfeld.

In 1807 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen and afterwards relocated to Vienna. Later on he served as a military physician for an Austrian battalion during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810 he resigned from his position at a hospital in Eger on account of severe illness. During convalescence his primary interests turned to theology and philosophy.

In the 1820s Pabst formed a close friendship with Austrian philosopher Anton Günther, and the two men collaborated on the treatise "Janusköpfe für Philosophie und Theologie". Pabst was also the author of the following works:

Der Mensch und seine Geschichte, 1830.

Gibt es eine Philosophie des positiven Christenthums?, 1832.

Adam und Christus. Zur Theorie der Ehe, 1835.