Karl Caspar Obrist (1828 - 1901)

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Biography

• He was a Swiss physician.
• He is described by Georg Fuchs in a biographical article on his son as "a [medical] doctor in Kilchberg by the Zürchersee (lake)
• He is named by the Tayler siblings as "Gaspar Obrist of Zürich" and one or two derivative anglophone sources online have copied the spelling and persist in callinig him Gaspar. Some anglopho9ne sources and all German-lanmguage sources call him Caspar Obrist or Karl Caspar Obrist

Sources

• Duffs - "The daughters of Alexander Duff of Braco and Grant Duffs" in "The Book of the Duffs by Henrietta and Alexander (Alister) Tayler, printed privately by T & A Constable in Edinburgh 1914, and made available (partially) online by the Internet Archive "Wayback Machine" in 2009: pages 491-501, here 496-497
• Hermann Obrist: His son's entry in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS),, authored by Annemarie Bucher (2010) and also accessible in a French translation by Laurent Auberson (2010) and an Italian translation by Alberto Tognola (2010)
• Hermann Obrist: two biographical essays on his son by Georg Fuchs & Wilhelm Bode, published together in Pan (magazine) (Berlin) 1895–96 (vols. III, IV & V in a single online presentation), pages 317–328, made available online by the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg