Emilián Božetěch Glocar

Emilián Božetěch Glocar (born July 11, 1906 in Lukavice , † February 10, 1985 in Libertyville , Illinois) was an American priest , painter and writer of Czech origin.

Life

He grew up in Nové Mlýny near Litovel , and after his father was killed in the war, in Zábřeh na Moravě , later in Ledče v Čechách and in Strážisko near Prostějov . His mother died in 1917 and he and his brother were raised by relatives. At the age of seventeen he went to Yugoslavia , where he studied theology . After studying in Sarajevo , he worked as a religion teacher in Prague and Pilsen . After he cannot find a job that interests him, he returns to Yugoslavia and studies at the University of Belgrade , receives his doctorate and is ordained a Serbian Orthodox priest in a small village. He later got a job at the important parish in Dalj near Osijek and was sent to the USA with his family in 1939 because of his language skills and his missionary work . He worked in Cleveland and later in Ohio . Glocar becomes a teacher at the University of Marshfield , Wisconsin , where he began to paint in addition to writing towards the end of his life.

Works

In addition to his first works, two volumes of poetry, he wrote novels and religious literature (the latter mostly in Serbian ), wrote for religious magazines and edited himself. Except for the trilogy, the author's noteworthy and extensive work was not published in Czech literary circles in the past duly recognized. Mainly because he worked as a priest and professor in the United States, which did not correspond to the ideology of the communist regime. In addition, his texts, but also paintings, are filled with deep religious belief. There are no German translations.

poetry

• Písně sirotků , Bělehrad 1931 - (The songs of the orphans)
• Vigile : verše [z roku 1928-29], Bělehrad 1932

Novels

• Od jara do jara  : Kronika zapadlé dědiny, Prague 1937 - in Czech (From spring to spring)
• Fruška Gora , Prague 1946 - Novel in Czech about the life of monks in Serbia, originally banned and published after the war.
• A Man From the Balkans , Philadelphia 1942 - published in English in the USA, translation by Fern Long
• Rebelie , Prague 1949 - Novel in Czech about the revolt of the Serbs against the Turks from 1806 to 1807
• The diary of Mr. Gregorij Maximomovič (Deník pana Gregorija Maximomoviče), 1953 in Serbian
• Irrungen (Blouděn), 1953 in English, published in USA
• Treason (Zrada) - in handwriting
• The night over the promised land (Noc nad zemí zaslíbenou) - in handwriting
• Olomoucká trilogy , 1960 - (Olomouc Trilogy) one of the best historical works of Czech literature, consisting of

- Vol. 1 Olomoucká romance , 1960 - Vol. 2 Magistr Gabriel, písař olomoucký (1527–1542), 1962 - Vol. 3 Olomoucká elegie , 1970

Religious literature

• Tvoj Glas , 1936 - (Your voice) in Serbian

Other literature

• Doctoral thesis Philosophy of V. Solojev (Filosofie V. Solovjeva) - for this work he was awarded the Beograd University Prize.

narrative

• Children in the Storm , published in: Youth Replies - I Can; stories of resistance, edited by May Lamberton Becker, New York 1945 - in English, a story about the resistance struggle in Serbia during the Second World War