Johannes Gosselck

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Johannes Rudolf Friedrich Gosselck (born July 6, 1881 in Stresendorf near Parchim , † October 6, 1948 in Rostock ) was a German homeland researcher and Low German writer.

Life

Johannes Gosselck was the oldest of ten children of the teacher Hugo Gosselck. He grew up near Parchims and later near Gadebusch , and from 1897 attended the preparandum at the Neukloster teachers' seminar . From 1900 to 1901 he worked as a school assistant at a village school before he attended the teachers' seminar in Neukloster until 1903. After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer , he became a teacher in Steffenshagen near Kröpelin in 1904 . In 1905 he moved to Rostock, where he taught biology and local history at the Friedrich-Franz girls' school and later at the secondary school, but also taught at the trade school. He worked in school until 1948, only interrupted from 1914 to 1918 by military service in World War I.

In 1932 Gosselck was one of the founders of the Warnemünde local history museum , and he served as its director on a voluntary basis from 1932 until it was closed due to the war. In 1945 he was the re-founder and again the director until 1946.

Around 1906, Gosselck was a board member and at the same time head of the field name collection and technical cultural monuments work group in the Mecklenburg Heimatbund . In 1912 he was a board member and from 1922 to 1927 chairman of the Low German regional association of Meckelborg . He was also chairman of the Mecklenburg Volksliedkommission founded in 1928 at the University of Rostock and head of the Mecklenburg Volksliedarchiv as well as head of the Rostock local group of the Reich Association for Bird Protection . From 1926 he worked for many years on the Mecklenburg dictionary created by Richard Wossidlo and Hermann Teuchert , he wrote for the Mecklenburg school newspaper and the Vagel-Grip calendar , which was published by Adler's heirs in Rostock from 1760. Many of his articles were published in the Mecklenburg monthly magazine.

After the end of the Second World War, he was a member of the state management of the u. a. "Cultural Association for the Democratic Renewal of Germany" founded by Johannes R. Becher and significantly involved in its development in Rostock. From 1947 he was also the district nature conservation officer and officer for nationality and homeland protection for the city of Rostock.

Works (selection)

  • What was mine once Low German Heimatbilder , Bahn, Schwerin 1911
  • Mecklenburg Realienbuch , 1914
  • Geography for schools in Mecklenburg , 1914
  • History for schools in Mecklenburg , 1914
  • Citizenship for the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz , 1914
  • Primer , 1918
  • Atlas of local history of Rostock , 3rd edition, 1920
  • Rostock Primer. First reading book for Rostock children , 1922; Additional editions under the title Heini and Lene , 14th edition, 1942
  • The Rostock Wanderbuch , 1925
  • Hiking book. Southeast Mecklenburg and the Upper Lakes , 1931
  • Our Mecklenburg field names , 1938
  • Pentecost Market , 1926
  • From singing Mecklenburg , 1929
  • The horn song on its hike through Mecklenburg , 1930
  • Glaserleben, as it is reflected in craft songs and sayings of the 18th century , 1930
  • Volkstum and vernacular in Mecklenburg , 1931
  • Ausköst in Olldbod , 1932
  • German peasantry , 1934
  • Vertellers ut de Grabowsch area , 1934
  • From the diary of a former village schoolboy , 1939, in Mecklenburgische Monatshefte .
editor
  • with Richard Wossidlo: Bökerie von'n Plattdütschen Landsverband Meckelborg , 1923–1925
  • with Friedrich Siems: Folk songs from both Mecklenburg with pictures and ways. (= Volume 20 of Landschaftliche Volkslieder), Hinstorff, Rostock 1933

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3439 ff .
  • Joachim Puttkammer: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - 100 famous minds. Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-851-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mecklenburgisches Flurnamenarchiv ( Memento from September 30, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) - Folklore Section, University of Rostock
  2. ^ Mecklenburgisches Volksliedarchiv ( Memento from September 30, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) - Folklore Section, University of Rostock
  3. ↑ The list follows the information given by Grete Grewolls: Who was who ... See literature, most of them are also listed in the LBMV.
personal data
SURNAME Gosselck, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gosselck, Johannes Rudolf Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher and Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Stresendorf , Parchim
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1948
Place of death Rostock