Josef Blau

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Josef Blau (born August 12, 1872 in Ober Neuern , Klattau district; † October 22, 1960 in Straubing ) was a Sudeten German teacher, local researcher and folklorist.

Life

Born as the eldest son of a family of artisans and farmers, he joined the German Teachers Training Institute in Prague in 1890 after completing school and working for four years as a clerk for a lawyer in Neuern and Bilin . After graduation, he became a teacher and senior teacher at various schools in the Bohemian Forest , most recently in his native Neuern near Klattau. In 1910 Josef Blau attended a folk high school course in Eger, today's Cheb , where he received initial suggestions for his later work as a local researcher from the Prague university professor Adolf Hauffen . Since the First World War he has published pamphlets with the results of his local research. He became the initiator and one of the most important representatives of local research, local education and folklore of the First Czechoslovak Republic and did research in the field of the culture of the Bohemian Forest.

He is the brother-in-law of the Chod composer Jindřich Jindřich .

Honors

  • 1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works (selection)

  • The teacher as homeland researcher. A guide to local history work. Haase, Prague 1915; 2nd revised and significantly expanded edition: Der Heimatforscher. 1920.
  • Šumava domestic industry and folk art. 2 volumes. Prague 1917/1918.
  • ABC of local lore. Haase, Leipzig / Prague / Vienna 1921.
  • Regional and folklore of the Czechoslovak Republic. Sollor, Reichenberg 1921; 2nd, increased edition 1927.
  • The church chronist and his duties. State Publishing House, Prague 1931.
  • History of the Jews in Modern Times. In: Hugo Gold : The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present. A compilation. Jewish book and art publishing house, Brno / Prague 1934.
  • History of the artistic freelance farmers in the Bohemian Forest. First West Bohemian Printing Industry Ltd., Pilsen 1934.
  • The glassmakers in the Bohemian and Bavarian Forests in folklore and cultural history. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1954–1956.
  • together with Emil Lehmann (1880–1964): Editor of Heimatbildung, monthly papers for Heimatlisches Volksbildungswesen

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum . Volume I, R. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 107.
  • Bohemia yearbook of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 2 (1961), p. 652 ff.
  • Theo Keil: The German School in the Sudetenland. Lerche, Munich 1967, p. 413 ff.
  • Announcements from the Adalbert Stifter Association. Vol. 9 (1961), H. 2.
  • Life and work pictures of Sudeten German teachers. Vol. 1, Pollak, Brünn 1933, pp. 68-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sumavanet.cz/nyrsko/fr.asp?tab=snet&id=6470&burl=&pt=HS&lng=de
personal data
SURNAME Blue, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German teacher, local researcher and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Newer
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1960
Place of death Straubing