Jan Jílek

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Jílek's grave slab on the Böhmischer Gottesacker in Berlin

January Jílek (* 3. April 1707 / 1709 in Lubná , East Bohemia , † 3. October 1780 in Bohemian-Rixdorf ) wrote, also in January GILEK , an important representative of the Bohemian Protestant movement of the 18th century and co-founder was the Bohemian refugee settlement Bohemian- Rixdorf near Berlin .

While his date of death seems certain, his date of birth is given differently. His date of birth is given as April 3, 1709 on his grave slab in the Böhmischer Gottesacker cemetery in Berlin ; other sources also mention April 30, but above all the year 1707 (according to the database of the Czech National Library or the family genealogy).

Jílek comes from a landlord family in eastern Bohemia , whose members worked as secret lay preachers. The religious intolerance in Bohemia forced him to leave his homeland in 1731. He settled in Gerlachsheim in Saxony , where a small community of his fellow believers was, organized the transport of forbidden literature to and aid for refugees from Bohemia. During a visit to Bohemia in 1733 he was arrested and held in Litomyšl Castle for two years . In 1735 he managed to escape and returned to Gerlachsheim.

At the invitation and under the patronage of Friedrich Wilhelm I , Jílek came to Rixdorf near Berlin in 1737 as one of the first colonists with some fellow believers from Bohemia, which from then on is divided into two communities: German Rixdorf and Bohemian Rixdorf. In the first decades Jílek played an important role in the community, he reorganized the old parish and became a member of the board of trustees.

Jan Jílek left his memoirs, which he wrote after his arrival in Bohemian Rixdorf. He himself was discovered as a fictional character in the novel by the writer Tereza Nováková Jan Jílek .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see sigma.nkp.cz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / sigma.nkp.cz  
  2. ↑ a b see http://www.rodokmen.czweb.org/
  3. ↑ a b see Jan Jílek on the website of the city of Lubná (PDF) (Czech).
  4. Jump up ↑ Jan Jílek: Pamětní věci, aneb, Běh života Jana Jílka . Slovo života, Brno 1998, ISBN 80-901956-9-5 [ Mementos , or, the course of Jan Jílek's life]

literature

  • Jan Jílek: Pamětní věci, aneb, Běh života Jana Jílka. [Memorabilia, or, the course of Jan Jílek's life.], Slovo života, Brno 1998, ISBN 80-901956-9-5 (Czech)
  • JE Hutton: History of the Moravian Church . fullbooks.com
  • Teréza Nováková: Jan Jílek [Jan Jílek]. Jos. R. Vilímek, 1934 (Czech)
  • Edita Štěříková: Běh života českých emigrantů v Berlíně v 18. století [The course of the life of Bohemian emigrants in Berlin]. Kalich, Praha 1999, ISBN 80-7017-253-3 (Czech)
personal data
SURNAME Jílek, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilek, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Representative of the Bohemian Protestant movement and co-founder of the Bohemian refugee settlement Böhmisch Rixdorf near Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1707 or April 3, 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubná , Eastern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1780
Place of death Bohemian Rixdorf