Johann Heinrich Tobler
Johann Heinrich Tobler was a Swiss singer and composer of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, active in the formative period of Switzerland as a federal state.
Born in Trogen as the son of a butcher, he worked as Modelstecher in Speicher from 1792, from 1798 also as secretary to the local authorities. He married Ursula Lerchenmeyer in 1803, and Anna Katharina Lindenmann in 1820.
He was a musical autodidact, and became known as composer and editor of song collections, as publicist and poet.
In 1823, he was co-founder of the first cantonal fire-insurance. He founded a literary association in 1820, which he presided 1825-27 and 1835–37, in 1824 he founded the cantonal choir.
In 1813, he also published a treatise of the early modern history of his home canton since partition from Appenzell Innerrhoden in 1597.
