Alois John

Alois John (born March 30, 1860 in Oberlohma ; † August 2, 1935 in Oed , Czechoslovakia ) was an archivist , folklorist and local writer of the Egerland .

origin

The ancestors of Alois John came to Franconia from the Netherlands in the 14th century , were then settlers from the Braunau monastery in the Braunauer Ländchen in eastern Bohemia and from 1629 as farmers and millers in the Egerland . Alois John was born in 1860 in the farm no. 23 in Oberlohma with the farm name "ban Äd (l) a" (= "near the eagle"), of which a building is still preserved today. His parents lived in Eger after 1875 .

Live and act

Alois John graduated from high schools in Eger and Leitmeritz, followed by studying history and German at the universities of Vienna, Innsbruck and Munich. After 1884 he lived as a writer on local history topics in Eger, in 1897 he founded the monthly Our Egerland - Blätter für Heimatkunde und Heimatpflege , which was edited by the chief editor Anton Krauss (1883-1966), before 1918 professor at the grammar school in Eger, after 1945 as a displaced person in Bavaria.

Our Egerland magazine was founded in 1897 in connection with the Baden language ordinance issued by Austrian Prime Minister Kasimir Felix Badeni and was a success with other publications by John in the German-speaking Egerland.

In 1922 Alois John bought the country house “Waldheim” on Antonienhöhe (Antoninova Vysina) near Franzensbad, today's “Johnvilla”, and became the director of the municipal museum, library and archive of the spa town of Franzensbad in western Bohemia . Among other things, in 1907 he was a co-founder of the study group for local history and home care in Eger; after the establishment of Czechoslovakia since 1922 an association with the name "Unser Egerland eV" and subsequently the Egerländer Gmoi eV

In 1935 he died in the Antonienhöhe district belonging to the municipality of Oed.

recognition

In recognition of his local history research, the Alois John Society was founded in 2002 with cross-border projects.

Publications

Complete list of publications by Alois John in: Valentin Men: Index for Egerländer Volks- und Heimatkunde, Amberg 1971, pages 24 to 32; in: "Unser Egerland", Werksverzeichnis 24, 1930 and in: Bibliography on the history of the city of Eger and the (historical) Egerland, compiled by Hermann Putz, available online.

selection

• In the Gau of Narisker - descriptions from the Egerland, 1888
• Richard Wagner in the German-Bohemian baths, Teplitz 1890
• About German folklore in the Egerland , in: Dresdner Wochenblätter für Kunst und Leben, issue 41
• Literary yearbook, 6 volumes. 1891 to 1896
• Egerland court names, in: Erzgebirgszeitung 1896, 9, pages 202 to 206
• Cross stones , Marterln and so-called plague columns in the Egerland, Journal for Austrian Folklore 3, 1897
• Volksaberglauben, in: Zeitschrift für Österreichische Volkskunde 2 (1996) to 6 (1900)
• Egerland folk songs, together with Josef Czerny (1897–1967) publisher and printer, 2 booklets, 1898–1901
• Joseph Sebastian Grüner - About the oldest customs and traditions of the Egerland; by Alois John published in: Contributions to German-Bohemian Folklore, JG Calve (Koch), 1901
• Oberlohma - history and folklore of a village in Egerland. Contributions to German-Bohemian folklore, JGCalve (J.Koch), Prague 1903
• Wenzel Heinrich Veit - Life picture of a German-Bohemian sound poet. 1903; Note: Veit was President of the District Court in Eger from 1854 to 1862, then President of the District Court in Leitmeritz and a recognized composer.
• Customs, Customs and Popular Beliefs in German West Bohemia , with a map of the areas of the Nordgau (Bavaria) in Bohemia. Contributions to German-Bohemian folklore, JG Calve´sche k. and k. Court and University Bookstore, Prague 1905
• Egerer students at the Leipzig University (1431–1556), in: Egerer Jahrbuch, 1907
• Egerländer Heimatbuch, self-published by Eger in 1908
• The Egerländer-Nordgau language area in Bohemia; Linguistic research on the Nordgau (Bavaria) , 1908
• Contributions to the history of the Eger student population, in: Egerer Jahrbuch, 1908
• Rural welfare in the Egerland, 1909
• Karl Huss : On superstition; published in 1910 by Alois John in the contributions to the folklore of the Egerland, JG Calve (J.Koch), Prague ( online )
• The history and genealogy of the John family in Egerland, 1912 digitized
• Egerländer Prokuratorenbuch; Special print from the monthly “Unser Egerland”, 24th year, Eger 1921
• Franzensbad . First mud bath in the world. Excellent women's and heart spa. A guide for spa guests and passers-by, Franzensbad, 1925
• The Goethestein in Haslau / ( Hazlov ), 1926
• Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the Franzensbader Stadttheater, 1928
• Goethe-Festschrift of the spa town Franzensbad on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Franzensbad 1932.
• The urn finds near Sirmitz in the municipal museum of Franzensbad, in: Unser Egerland, year 35, 1933. Note: An urn field from the Bronze Age at the large mill pond in Sirmitz was exposed around 1929.

literature

• Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume II, pages 59 and 60, R.Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1984, with further literature, ISBN 3 486 52551-4
• Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger, pages 246 and 248, Männedorf / ZH 1985, ISBN 3 922808 12 3
• Ten pictures from the history of the Egerer Museum, Cheb / Eger, in Czech and German pages 118 and 119 Short biography of Alois John with a portrait photo and a photo in front of the Villa Waldheim in Antonienhöhe, today a district of Oberlohma (Horni Lomany), Eger 2003
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1825–1950, Volume 3 (Lfg. 12, 1962), page 124
• Hans Giebisch and Gustav Gugitz: Yearbook of the Egerländer 1, 1954
• Anton August Naaff: Alois John as a local writer - twenty years in the service of the homeland, 1906.
• Wilhelm Kosch : The Catholic Germany, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Lexikon, Augsburg, delivery 1919
• Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch 2, 1953

Web links

• Alois John Society

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Röll: History of my place of birth Oberlohma, Eger district ( Sudetenland ). A home and place register, 1970