Gregor Gobius

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House at Peterstraße 13 in Görlitz
Memorial plaque on the house, Peterstraße 13, in Görlitz

Gregor Gobius (* 1588 or 1598 in Glogau ; † 1658 ) was a mayor of Görlitz and an alchemist .

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Life

Gregor Gobius made several study trips abroad in his youth. So he traveled to France, Belgium and England. In 1630 he became city judge in Görlitz.

Gobius stood out among his fellow citizens with an eye-catching presentation - red dresses and a voluminous wig. He was engaged in gold making and embalming corpses. His wife Anna, b. He embalmed Heintze, with whom he had nine children, in his house at 13 Peterstrasse; the body was found to have been preserved when the grave was opened later. Gobius himself was embalmed by his servant. The result is said to have been less than satisfactory.

The crypt of the Gobius family, a work of the Renaissance from 1635, has been preserved in the Nikolaifriedhof in Görlitz. The gate was stolen in 2006, but was later found again.

Say

Gregor Gobius was said to have miraculous things. He is said to have looked at his own funeral procession from the window of his house. His tomb in the Nikolaifriedhof is said to be haunted and a ring is said to be missing from the grating of this tomb, which no blacksmith can permanently replace because it pops off again the following night. Nightly rattling of wagons is also said to announce a funeral procession with headless mourners and draft horses. Whoever sees this funeral procession is supposed to die that same year.

Literary use

In his novel Children's Wedding , Adolf Muschg lets one of the protagonists, the scholar Balthasar Nicht, live in Gobius' house on Peterstraße. Balthasar nicht tells the legends about Gobius to his guest Klaus Marbach.

Gobius is also the main character in René Harder's play Der Gottesacker is in bloom , which is performed in Görlitz at the Nikolaifriedhof. Gregor Gobius also plays a role in The Traitorous Rotte Tor .

Web links

Commons : Gregor Gobius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SZ-Online: The stolen gate is back ; October 19, 2006.
  2. ↑ reneharder.de: Children of Music ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  3. ^ SZ-Online: Courtesan today, nun tomorrow ; February 24, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Gobius, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Görlitz
DATE OF BIRTH 1588 or 1598
DATE OF DEATH 1658