Johann Philipp Glock

Johann Philipp Glock (born December 10, 1849 in Schriesheim , † December 14, 1925 in Bad Nauheim ) researched and described his home in Baden in the 19th century.

Life

Johann Philipp Glock was born as the son of the teacher Philipp Jakob Glock and his wife Charlotte in the Schriesheim schoolhouse. Glock's father took part in the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 and went to court, but was acquitted. Glock attended grammar school in Heidelberg and after graduating from high school began studying Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen . He got his first job as vicar at the Heiliggeistkirche in Heidelberg. As a medic and later a military chaplain, he took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. This was followed by vicar positions in Lahr , Emmendingen and Baden-Baden . Although he could have become a pastor in Baden-Baden, he preferred to accept the Protestant pastor in Zuzenhausen . There he was pastor of the Protestant parish of Zuzenhausen from 1877 to 1896. Glock wanted to be a village pastor because he wanted to be close to the common people.

In 1880 he married Marie née Hess in the Heiliggeistkirche in Heidelberg. The couple had ten children, five daughters and five sons. In addition to his pastoral work, he tended his large parish garden and dedicated himself to beekeeping . In beekeeping newspapers and brochures wrote on many issues related to beekeeping. For many years, Glock was the district administrator of the Historical Commission for the Grand Duchy of Baden . As a farewell present to Zuzenhausen, he published an extensive local history.

In 1897 the Oberkirchenrat transferred Glock to Wolfenweiler , where a parsonage with 14 rooms was available for his large family. The songs and sayings he published in 1898 he had put together in Zuzenhausen. Because of his wife's serious illness, he retired in 1916 and the couple moved to Bad Nauheim. The death of three sons who died in the First World War and the death of a son who emigrated to America darkened the last years of his life. He found his final resting place in Laudenbach in 1925. The community of Schallstadt named the Johann-Philipp-Glock-Grund- und Hauptschule with Werkrealschule after him.

Bobbele

Thanks to Glock, it is proven that the nickname Bobbele was circulating for the Freiburg residents as early as 1909, twenty years before the opening of the St. Elisabeth Hospital , where supposedly the "real" Bobbele were born. City historian Peter Kalchthaler explains: “In 1909 he [Glock] published the Breisgauer Volksspiegel , in which he describes his experiences. He had the rural population talk about it; he asked her about her proverbs. How do you say when a child is born? How do you say when you drive the cattle out in the fall? What kind of weather rules do you have? The term Bobbele appears several times in this systematic listing . "

Works

• Castle, town and village of Zuzenhausen in Elsenzgau - a local history, 1896.
• The symbolism of bees and their products in legend, poetry, culture, art and customs of the peoples, Heidelberg (Weißsche Universitätsbuchhandlung) 1891 (2nd edition 1897)
• Songs and sayings from the Elsenz Valley - collected from the mouths of the people, in: Alemannia , 1898.
• Breisgauer Volksspiegel, 1909.

literature

• bsch: "Peasant Pastor" Johann Philipp Glock, in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of February 9, 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Mauch: "Bobbele were the big city dwellers". Badische Zeitung, July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 . 

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Philipp Glock  - Sources and full texts