{{short description|New Zealand cricketer and physician (1870–1924)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Joseph Pabst | image = Some well-known medicos of Auckland City and province (1903) (cropped to Joseph Pabst).jpg | caption = Pabst in 1903 | country = | fullname = Joseph Charles Pabst | birth_date = 1870 | birth_place = Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia | death_date = 19 May {{death year and age|1924|1870}} | death_place = Wellington, New Zealand | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper | club1 = Auckland | year1 = {{nowrap|1894/95–1897/98}} | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 5 | runs1 = 71 | bat avg1 = 8.87 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 20 | deliveries1 = 12 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1= 5/1 | date = 22 September | year = 2024 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38152.html Cricinfo }}
'''Joseph Charles Pabst''' (1870 – 19 May 1924) was a New Zealand cricketer and doctor. He played five first-class matches for Auckland between 1894 and 1898,<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38152.html |title=Joseph Pabst |accessdate=19 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> and practised as a doctor in Auckland and Wellington.
==Life and career== Pabst's father was a German who migrated to Australia in 1860 and settled on the Bendigo goldfields, where he established a business as a butcher. Pabst was one of four children, two boys and two girls.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Death of Mr. J. Pabst|journal=Bendigo Advertiser|date=3 March 1902|page= 3|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88614363}}</ref> He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1892,<ref>{{cite journal|title=The University of Melbourne|journal=The Argus|date=15 November 1892|page= 7|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8481728}}</ref> was awarded first-class honours in 1893, when he was acting resident surgeon at the Melbourne Women's Hospital,<ref>{{cite journal|title= University Honors|journal= Bendigo Advertiser|date=20 March 1893|page= 2|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88965858}}</ref> and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1897.<ref>{{cite journal|title= The University |journal= The Age|date=22 March 1897|page= 6|url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/193692635}}</ref> He took up a position as house physician at Auckland Hospital in September 1894.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Hospital and Charitable Aid Board |journal= New Zealand Herald|date=18 September 1894|page= 6|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18940918.2.58}}</ref>
Pabst played cricket as a batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.<ref>{{cite book |last=McCarron |first=Tony |year=2010 |title=New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010 |page=103 |location=Cardiff |publisher=The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |isbn=978-1-905138-98-2 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/104/index.html|access-date=22 September 2024}}</ref> Playing for the Gordon club in senior Auckland cricket, he was one of the leading batsmen in the competition in 1894–95.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Cricket |journal= New Zealand Herald|date=19 January 1895|page= 6|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18950119.2.53}}</ref> He made his first-class cricket debut in January 1895, captaining Auckland to victory over the touring Fijians.<ref>{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4258.html| title = Auckland v Fiji 1894-95| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =22 September 2024}}</ref>
Pabst married Frederica Isabel Peacocke in Auckland in August 1901.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Marriages |journal= New Zealand Herald |date=10 September 1901|page= 1|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19010910.2.2.1}}</ref> They moved to Wellington in 1922, where he went into private practice. He injured himself when he slipped on the stairs outside his surgery and died a few weeks later in May 1924, leaving a widow and several daughters.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Dr J. C. Pabst |journal= New Zealand Times |date=20 May 1924|page= 3|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19240520.2.17}}</ref>
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