Bogler, Joseph Carl Jacob

born: April 10, 1819 in Wiesbaden
died: August 29, 1893 in Wiesbaden

The son of the teacher and organist Valentin Bogler, he attended the Pädagogium Wiesbaden from 1829, then grammar schools in Mainz and Weilburg. From 1838, he studied philology and philosophy in Marburg. He began his career as a teacher at grammar schools in Wiesbaden and - for two years - in Hadamar, before working in Wiesbaden until his retirement in 1876, where he became deputy principal at the former royal grammar school.

He founded a ladies' choral society and became musical director of the Wiesbaden men's choral society in 1841. The joint performance of both choirs resulted in the mixed choral society in 1847, which was renamed the Cäcilienverein(choir of the city of Wiesbaden) in 1854. Bogler was its director until 1855; he mainly conducted works by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. He often wrote preliminary reports about the association's concerts in the "Rheinischer Kurier", and he also founded a new choral society, which existed until 1871 and often performed together with the Cäcilienverein.

Bogler was a member of the commission that managed the Wiesbaden theater after the March Revolution from 1848 to 1857 and was responsible for the drama. Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl described this period in his novella "Das Theaterkind" (1867), referring to Bogler as "the philologist".

Bogler was also important for Wiesbaden as a theater critic and music writer. In 1872, he was one of the founders of the "Association of Artists and Friends of the Arts" (Die Kammermusik in Wiesbaden e.V.). He was also active in the "Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung ". He organized benefit concerts for the procurement of the bells for the Marktkirche, and his portrait was cast on one of the bells in gratitude. His brother Wilhelm Bogler was an architect and was also involved in community life, while their cousin Ida married the painter Kaspar Kögler. Bogler was buried in the old cemetery.