Franz Xaver Görlich

Franz Xaver Görlich (born September 13, 1801 in Baitzen , Frankenstein district , Silesia ; † July 5, 1881 in Liebenthal , Löwenberg district ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman, chronicler and biographer.

Life

Görlich's parents were the bricklayer and gardening site owner Anton Görlich and Anna Maria, nee. Frog who had eight children. Since Franz - later he preferred the first name Xaver - had shown eagerness to learn and interest in everything related to school, his parents handed him over to the school teacher Müller in Frömsdorf near Münsterberg as an assistant in 1815, with the intention of preparing him for professional training as a teacher. He stayed in the apprenticeship until the autumn of 1816, but then went to Breslau prematurely under the influence of his eldest brother, a cathedral choralist , “to go to some schools beforehand”. At the age of 15 he attended the Catholic grammar school in Breslau from the fall of 1816. Recommended by the later Kapellmeister Hahn as a singer in the Konvikt, he received board and lodging there. In 1824 he moved to the University of Breslau to study Catholic theology . He was ordained a priest on April 8, 1828. His primacy was celebrated in the house of Freiherr v. Saurma , who also supported him materially. He was also promoted by the conductor Joseph Ignaz Schnabel , the organist Franz Wolf , the painter Hermann and the sculptor Mächtig . In his environment he often had the opportunity to hear well-known singers and masters of instrumental music.

In 1828 Görlich became chaplain in Schweidnitz , in 1830 in Breslau. After a few years he took over religious instruction from the Ursulines , became a curator at the St. Adalbert Stift in Breslau in 1834 , then a pastor in Strehlen in 1842 , where he also worked as a district school inspector, and in 1857 a pastor in Liebenthal, where he was also a pastor in the Ursuline monastery worked.

Görlich was active as a writer, made contributions to the Silesian Provincial Gazette and in 1835 was a co-founder of the Silesian Church Gazette . He wrote several monastery chronicles, a life story of St. Hedwig , Duchess of Silesia, and is the author of a chronicle of the city of Strehlen. He was a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . Görlich, whose eyesight had suffered greatly and who was therefore unable to publish anything, died on July 5, 1881 and was buried in the Liebenthal monastery crypt.

Works (selection)

• An attempt at a history of the parish church in Schweidnitz. A contribution to the Silesian church history, on the occasion of the five hundred year jubilee celebration above God's house . Schweidnitz 1830.
• Documented history of the Premonstratensian and their abbey of St. Vincent in front of Breslau . Breslau 1836. ( digitized version )
• The life of St. Hedwig, Duchess of Silesia, as a memento of the six hundred year jubilee of her blessed death . Breslau 1843 ( e-copy )
• History of the town of Strehlen in Prussian Silesia . Breslau 1853 ( e-copy ). ( Review ).
• The Benedictine Jungfrauenkloster Liebenthal on the Lausitz-Bohemian border in Lower Silesia . Breslau 1864 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Karl Gabriel Nowack : Silesian writer lexicon or bio-bibliographical directory of the Silesian writers living in the second quarter of the 19th century . Volume 4, Breslau 1840, pp. 29-32.
• Joseph Kehrein : Biographical literary lexicon of the Catholic German poets, folk and youth writers in the 19th century . Volume 1, Zurich / Stuttgart / Würzburg 1868, pp. 116–117.

Web links

• Works by and about Franz Xaver Görlich  in the German Digital Library