Johannes Grob

Johannes or Johann Grob (born September 16, 1643 in Oberglatt , today the municipality of Flawil , † April 1, 1697 in Herisau ) was a Swiss poet and epigrammatist.

Life

Grob came from a wealthy family from the hamlet of Enzenschwyl (today Grobenentschwil ) in the municipality of Flawil in what was then the county of Toggenburg or in today's canton of St. Gallen . After his youth at his birthplace, he studied in Zurich . From 1661 to 1664 he was a soldier in the bodyguard of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II. He then traveled to Paris, Bremen, Hamburg, London and the Netherlands. In 1664 he took over his father's linen trading company and became state commissioner in Toggenburg. In his home country he intervened on the side of the Protestant Toggenburgers in the dispute with the Prince Abbot of St. Gallen . After these conflicts he lived with his family in Herisau in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from 1674 until his death . There he worked as a diplomat and was a member of the Grand Council until his death.

His literary work mainly includes satirical poems, especially epigrams. A frequently recurring theme is the struggle for German and against French culture, in particular the expansionist efforts of Louis XIV. For this patriotic commitment he was ennobled by Emperor Leopold I.

Works (selection)

• Poetic experimentation. Basel 1678
• Loyal federal wake-up. o. O., 1678 u. ö.
• Poetic walking forest , 1700
• Epigrams. In addition to a selection from his other poems, ed. Axel Lindqvist. Hildesheim 1991 (Ndr. Of the 1929 edition)

literature

• Walter Ernst Schäfer: Johannes Grob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2006 .
• August Steiger: Johannes Grob: the Toggenburg poet and Appenzell honorary citizen. In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Volume 71 (1944) (archived in E-Periodica.ch of the ETH Library , PDF; 11.5 MB).
• Jakob Baechtold:  Grob, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 704 f.
• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johann Grob , in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 1852-1854 (list of works and references)
• Georg Thürer:  Grob, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 100 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Grob  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johannes Grob in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Johannes Grob in VD 17 .
• Digitized prints by Johannes Grob in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
• Walter Ernst Schäfer: Grob, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .