Roland Gröbli

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Roland Gröbli (born September 6, 1960 in Ennetmoos ) is a Swiss author , historian and journalist . He is considered a well-founded expert and biographer of Niklaus von Flüe .

Life

Gröbli grew up in Ennetmoos in the canton of Nidwalden and attended the Kollegium St. Fidelis high school in Stans . He studied German literature, general history and literature from 1981 to 1989 at the University of Zurich and from 1983 to 1984 at the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1989 with a biography on Niklaus von Flüe . Gröbli is President of the Zurich regional group of the Association of Christian Entrepreneurs (VCU) and lives with his family in Dachsen , Canton of Zurich .

Gröbli worked as a freelance journalist from 1981 to 1989 and as editor of the Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten (LNN) from 1989 to 1992 . From 1992 to 1994 he worked in Santafé de Bogotá ( Colombia ) for a foundation as an international employee of Interteam , a Swiss voluntary aid organization and then until 1999 as managing director of the Swiss-Colombian Chamber of Commerce. He then returned to Switzerland and was Head of Department and Secretary General of the Swiss Center for Trade Promotion (OSEC) in Zurich in 1999/2000 . Since 2000 he has been working in the corporate development department at Georg Fischer AG in Schaffhausen , where he holds the position of Secretary General.

His dissertation The longing for the "unified being" appeared in several editions as a book and is considered a standard biographical work on Niklaus von Flüe .

Gröbli is a member of the board and president of the scientific advisory board of the sponsoring association "600 years of Niklaus von Flüe". In 2016, Gröbli produced the publications “Introduction to the life and work of Niklaus von Flüe” and “Introduction to the living culture of remembrance of Niklaus von Flüe today” on behalf of the sponsoring association “600 Years of Niklaus von Flüe”.

Works

  • 1988: Niklaus von Flüe - the mystic. In: Dorothee and Niklaus von Flüe-Wyss: Minutes of the lectures of September 22nd and November 3rd, 1987 . Romero House Protocols 5, Romero House, Lucerne 1988.
  • 1989: Roland Gröbli, Leo Odermatt : Ennetmoos. Anniversary book for the 600th anniversary 1389–1989 . Published by the municipality of Ennetmoos, Ennetmoos 1989.
  • 1989: The longing for the "unified being" - life and teaching of Brother Klaus von Flüe. NZN-Buchverlag, Zurich 1992. New edition: Rex-Verlag, Lucerne 2006, ISBN 978-3-7252-0829-6 .
    Excerpt from the dissertation of the same name at the University of Zurich 1989/1990, additional text parts of the dissertation (pp. 1–90, appendix; PDF)
  • 2001: Survival in the urban jungle. IKO Verlag for Intercultural Communication, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 978-3-88939-564-1 . (Gröbli describes the urban survival culture using the example of Santafé de Bogotá, the capital of Colombia.)
  • 2016: «Introduction to the life and work of Niklaus von Flüe» . On behalf of the sponsoring association “600 years of Niklaus von Flüe”, online as PDF .
  • 2016: "Introduction to the living culture of remembrance of Niklaus von Flüe today" . On behalf of the sponsoring association “600 years of Niklaus von Flüe”, online as PDF .
  • 2017: Roland Gröbli, Thomas Wallimann-Sasaki, Heidi Kronenberg, Markus Ries (eds.): Mystiker - Mittler - Mensch. 600 years of Niklaus von Flüe 1417–1487. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-290-20138-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of literature and media on Niklaus von Flüe and Dorothee Wyss (PDF) , p. 8, accessed on April 2, 2017
  2. ↑ Sponsor and board of directors , on the website of the sponsoring association “600 years of Niklaus von Flüe”, accessed on April 2, 2017
  3. ^ Scientific advisory board , on the website of the sponsoring association "600 years of Niklaus von Flüe", accessed on April 2, 2017
  4. ↑ Niklaus von Flüe - Mystics. Middle. Human. , on the website of the sponsoring association “600 years of Niklaus von Flüe”, accessed on April 2, 2017
  5. ↑ A book to read and think about , in Obwaldner Zeitung, January 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Grobli, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author, historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ennetmoos