Franz Joseph Bob

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Franz Joseph Bob (born October 31, 1733 in Dauchingen ; † February 19, 1802 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a camerawoman and philologist from Upper Austria and is considered the first professor to hold an economics chair at the University of Freiburg .

In 1768 he wrote his own grammar and instructions for the spelling of the Upper German writing language , which, however, could not prevail because shortly afterwards Gottsched 's variant of New High German established itself as the standard norm in the entire German-speaking area.

In 1768 he was appointed professor of camera and police science as well as secular eloquence in Freiburg im Breisgau, which was then still Habsburg , a science that, in the era of absolutism, worked out how a state should be run properly and as efficiently as possible in the sense of the Enlightenment . At the same time the elite of court officials was trained.

In addition to these studies, which are comparable to today's economics , Bob dealt with the standardization of the German language and wrote his own grammar in his work The Necessary Principles of German Language Art in 1771 . He was one of the predominantly Catholic scholars in the southern German-Austrian region who tried to raise the Upper German writing language to the general norm, or at least to incorporate a large part of the linguistic peculiarities of this writing standard into a new national standard German. In 1773, as part of an educational reform, the first normal school was founded in Freiburg on his initiative , for which he made excerpts from his grammar in 1778, which then served as teaching material for the lessons.

He retired from the university in 1786; Johann Alphons de Lugo was sent from Vienna as his successor . He was still working on an orthographic dictionary, which was published in 1802. In the same year Franz Joseph Bob died. The end of Habsburg Front Austria in 1805 in the course of the Napoleonic wars also led to the end of the southern German-Austrian official language in administration and education; instead, the “Protestant” New High German prevailed. Thus Bob's philological work had no long-term impact on the history of language.

For the history of camera science and its successor, economics, however, his work Von dem Systeme der Polizeywissenschaft and the cognitive principle of state wisdom and its branches , published in 1779, is of importance , in which he expresses himself programmatically on his subject and summarizes the point of view of his time.

As an enlightener, Bob was a founding member and first secretary of the Freiburg Freemason's Lodge Zur noble Aussicht .

Bobbele

Some sources claim that the nickname " Bobbele " for the Freiburg residents goes back to Franz Joseph Bob. In a contemporary ridiculous poem, the first graders of the newly built normal school are said to have been called that, which was soon transferred to all residents of the city by the rural population, whose students commuted to the city.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerold Blümle, Nils Goldschmidt, Dorothea Schmidt-Klau: Economic history and economic thinking , Metropolis-Verlag GmbH, 2007, ISBN 3895185973 ; online at Google Books p. 286
  2. ^ Werner Besch: History of Language ; Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 3110158833 ; online at Google Books, p. 2987
  3. ^ Hugo Frank: History of the Masonic Lodge for the noble view in Freiburg in Baden . Part II, Freiburg 1922, p. 199 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Gerold Blümle, Nils Goldschmidt, Dorothea Schmidt-Klau: Economic history and economic thinking , Metropolis-Verlag GmbH, 2007, ISBN 3895185973 ; online at Google Books p. 286
  5. ↑ Uwe Mauch: "Bobbele were the big city dwellers". Badische Zeitung, July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bob, Franz Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cinematographer and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Dauchingen
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1802
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau