Johann Georg Holzach

Johann Georg Holzach ( April 20, 1756 - August 19, 1816 ) was a Swiss pastor .

Johann Georg Holzach, son of Georg Holzach, a teacher at the girls' school in Barfüssern in Basel , worked 1779–1786 as a pastor's helper and 1786–1798 as the second pastor in Biel . 1798–1800 he was pastor in Pieterlen , 1800–1806 in Riehen and 1806–1816 at St. Elisabethen in Basel.

His two sons Emanuel Georg Holzach and Friedrich Holzach were both entrepreneurs and politicians in Basel.

literature

• Karl Gauss : Basilea Reformata , Basel 1930, p. 87.
• Markus Lutz : Baslerisches Bürgerbuch , Basel 1819, p. 163 ( online ).
• Emanuel Raillard: funeral speech at the funeral of the venerable and well-learned Mr. M. Johann Georg Holzach, who was a well-deserved pastor at St. Elisabethen in Basel , 1816
• Michael Raith : Church life since the Reformation , in: Riehen. History of a village, Riehen 1972, pp. 165–214, here p. 185.
• Speech of the esteemed Mr. Staats-Raths Peter Ochs , given on the day of the election of a pastor at St. Elisabethen [in Basel] at the place of the deceased Mr. Johann Georg Holzach, September 17th, 1816, Basel 1816
• Georg Vischer and Markus Christ (eds.): Basliea Reformata 2002 , Basel / Liestal 2002, p. 198.
• Gustaf Adolf Wanner : The Holzach. Story of an old Swiss family. Basel, Frankfurt a. M. 1982.