Johann Heinrich Pabst was a German-Austrian physician, philosopher and lay theologian

Lay theologian

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 who was a native of Lindau

Lindau (Katlenburg-Lindau)

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 in Eichsfeld

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In 1807 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen, and afterwards relocated to Vienna

Vienna

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. He later served as a military physician for an Austrian battalion during the Napoleonic Wars

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

Eger

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 due to severe illness, and during convalescence his primary interests turned to theology

Theology

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 and philosophy

Philosophy

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In the 1820s Pabst formed a close friendship with Austrian philosopher Anton Günther

Anton Günther

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 (1783–1863), and the two men collaborated on the treatise Janusköpfe für Philosophie und Theologie (Heads of Janus

Janus

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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