Julius Blaschke

Julius Blaschke (21 March 1866 – 23 January 1922) was a German historian, composer and pedagogue.

Biography

Julius Blaschke was born in Kostenblut. He graduated from the Catholic Teachers' Seminary in Breslau, and simultaneously studied at the Academic Institute of Church Music. Initially he worked in Peucker and Trzcinica Wołowska, teaching in Catholic schools. Two years after passing the second teacher's exam in 1888, he was given a position at the People's School in Glogau, at the same time becoming organist at the local parish church. Beginning in 1900, he taught drawing at the Humanistic Gymnasium for nine years.

Blaschke's passion was researching the history of the city of Glogow and its surroundings, and he published his findings in the form of articles and publications. He wrote openly about the Slavic roots of Glogow. In addition to writing about the city's history, he composed organ pieces, but treated this as an additional interest. He died suddenly at the age of 56. As a token of his appreciation, in the mid-1920s Polish Street in Glogow was renamed after him.

Works

In 1906, Julius Blaschke's first book, entitled Die Belagerung Glogaus im Jahre 1806 (The Siege of Glogau in 1806), was published on the 100th anniversary of the siege and capture of the city by French troops. His largest work is Geschichte der Stadt Glogau Und des Glogauer Landes (History of the City of Glogow and the Land of Glogow), written between 1902 and 1912. In compiling this work, the author drew on knowledge gleaned from the Glogau press that had been published for more than a century, 144 volumes of the Schlesische Provinzial-Blätter (Silesian Provincial Journal), 45 volumes of the Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte Schlesiens (Periodical of the Union for the History of Silesia) and 33 Reports of the Magistrate's Board (Verwaltungsberichte des Magistrats). To this day, the monograph by Blaschke is one of the most important works describing the history of Glogow.