Georg Friedrich Blaul

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Title page "Dreams and Foams from the Rhine", edition 1882
Grave in the Germersheim cemetery

Georg Friedrich Blaul (born January 30, 1809 in Speyer , † April 1, 1863 in Germersheim ) was a German pastor and poet .

Live and act

The son of a master blacksmith attended the grammar school at the Kaiserdom in Speyer from 1819-1827 , where the well-known philologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach and the later Speyer bishop and Cologne cardinal archbishop Johannes von Geissel, who were friends with him, exerted particular influence on him. He then studied Protestant theology , history , art history and modern languages at the University of Heidelberg from 1828 , then theology in Tübingen and languages ​​and history in Erlangen and Munich . In 1831 Blaul returned to Heidelberg, completed his studies with the Old Testament scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit and passed his examination.

First he worked as a private tutor in Speyer, then as a preacher in Otterberg , pastor in Frankenthal , from 1856 dean in Germersheim , where he died in 1863. He is buried in the Germersheim cemetery . In Germersheim, "Blaulstrasse" was named after him.

Because of his fiction and local history writing, Blaul is known as a “ Palatinate late romantic ”.

His daughter Sophie (1843–1930) married Carl Friedrich Heman (1839–1919 ) in 1870 , a Protestant pastor and later professor of philosophy at the University of Basel .

Works

  • 1839/40 dreams and foams of the Rhine (travel pictures from the Rheinpfalz)
  • 1860 The Imperial Cathedral of Speyer

In addition, various short stories , stories and lyrical writings on the Palatinate.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Blaul, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1863
Place of death Germersheim