Early life Details of Galubitz’s life, especially his early years, are poorly known. He first appears in the records in 1732–1733 as a mason’s journeyman working under the master Gottfried Forster. According to
Vladas Drėma and
Stanisław Lorentz, he was born in
Świdnica, in
Silesia, though this remains only a supposition. In 1737 he appeared in
Vilnius, where he initially worked as a mason on the Chapel of
Saint Barbara in the
Church of St. John, until 1739.
Vilnius Glaubitz, who was among the leaders of the
Lutheran community of Vilnius. His first independent project was the reconstruction of the Evangelical church in
Vilnius between 1739 and 1743. His next commission, the reconstruction of the
Church of St. Catherine for the Benedictine nuns between 1741 and 1744, brought him considerable recognition. In 1743 he took over and completed the construction of the church in
Stolowicze. In 1749 he entered the service of the Uniate Archbishop of Polotsk,
Florian Hrebnicki, for whom he built a palace in Strunie and also completed the construction of
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk, which had most likely been begun by
Guido Antonio Longhi. At the same time he worked for the Vilnius Jesuits on the construction of the
Church of St. John, as well as for the Dominicans on the construction of the church in Zabiały-Wołyńce in the
Vitebsk Voivodeship. Glaubitz was also responsible for the reconstruction of the
Vilnius Town Hall. This concludes the list of Glaubitz’s certain major architectural works. He was also the builder of many altars, for example in the
Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit, Vilnius. Many other stylistically similar buildings are often attributed to him, but these attributions remain uncertain. Among them is
Carmelite church of
Glubokas (Hlybokaye), which he reconstructed in 1735; it is now
the Orthodox Church of the Birth of Theotokos. In 1746—1750, also
Mscislaŭ Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Other towns with possible Glaubitz's architecture include
Mogiliavas (Mogilev),
Lyda (Lida), and the
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk, all three in what is now
Belarus and
Daugavpils in
Latvia. The
Basilian Church and Monastery in Berezwecz, now part of Hlybokaye, was built in 1776 and demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. Its replica was constructed in
Białystok in the 1990s. ==See also==