Johann Wilhelm Gloger

Johann Wilhelm Gloger , called Wilhelm Gloger (* 1702 ; † December 11, 1760 ) was a German organ builder.

Life

He was the eldest son of Johann Heinrich Gloger . In 1734 he married Charlotte Hedewig Gabriela Kurren (* 1708; † February 1739), who died in childbed. In 1745 he married Justina Hasenbein († January 1762); her daughter Sophia Elisabeth (* 1746) married Johann Sieber in Stade ; Nothing is known about her son Georg Wilhelm (* 1753); another five offspring died young.

Gloger lived in Northeim until 1742, then moved to Göttingen as an organ builder and was then organist in the St. Jacobi Church .

plant

In 1722/23 he was a journeyman to the organ builder Caspar Sperling in Goslar . In 1728 he built a small organ in Sack . In 1734 he completed his father's organ work in the St. Stixti Church in Northeim. The following year he worked in Nette (Bockenem) . For the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen he built an organ from 1738 to 1740; This was expanded in 1803, stored in the St. Nikolai Church and sold in 1806 to Wittingen , where the prospectus is still preserved. From 1755 to 1759 he built the organ of the church in Rosdorf ; this burned down in 1857.

literature

• Hildegard Behr: A famous family of organ builders (Gloger) in Northeim and Göttingen . In: Northeimer Heimatblätter , March 1971, pp. 22-24