Friedrich August Hackmann

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Title vignette by Reineke de Vos with the koker , published in 1711

Friedrich August Hackmann (also: Hackemann ) (born November 14, 1670 in Gandersheim , † around 1745 ) was a German legal scholar. He became famous in 1709 and 1711 for the rediscovery of the Low German version of Reineke Fuchs ; his edition Reineke de Vos mit dem Koker (1711) is considered authoritative for Gottsched's prose version of Reineke the Fox , published in 1752.

Life

Friedrich August Hackmann was the son of Gandersheimer General Superintendent John Hackmann (1629-1676). Around 1709 he was a full professor at the University of Helmstedt , where he gave lectures on Reineke Fuchs. Since he provided his lessons with mocking allusions to high-ranking personalities and Christianity, he was banned from lecturing and was awarded the Consilium abeundi , which means he had to leave the city. Hackmann quietly left Helmstedt and became a Catholic. When he later sought support from the Prussian court, he returned to the Reformed faith at the instigation of the same. In 1729 he became Professor of Law and Privy Councilor in Halle . Since he insisted on giving not only legal, but also deistic lectures there, he had to leave Halle immediately on the orders of the Prussian court and under the threat of punishment from Stäupen . In 1734 he went to Vienna and became Catholic again; then his track is lost.

His frequent change of denomination led to the formulation circulating among his contemporaries that his religion was of good cloth because it had been turned around so often.

Reineke de Vos with the koker

In 1711 Hackmann published the Low German Reineke de Vos in Wolfenbüttel , to which he appended a hitherto unknown poem, entitled Koker (Quiver), which consists of sayings and proverbs. The peculiarity of this poem lies in the structure of its rhymes: The individual sayings are interlocked as two lines with the preceding and following rhymes in such a way that they form a chain, which is pictorially interpreted in the title as arrows in a quiver. It remained unclear whether Hackmann was the author of this poem or just the rediscoverer of an old dialect text.

literature

  • Sabine Ahrens: The teaching staff of the University of Helmstedt (1576-1810) (=  publications of the district lakes Helmstedt . No. 7 ). District of Helmstedt, Kreismuseen, Helmstedt 2004, ISBN 3-937733-70-1 , p. 95 f .
  • Jakob Franck :  Hackmann, Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 297 f.
  • Paul Zimmermann : Friedrich August Hackmann, especially in his relationship with Leibniz and the University of Helmstedt . In: Yearbook of the History Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig , Volume 2, 1903, pp. 81–115

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Jakob Franck, in: ADB, Vol. 10, p. 297
personal data
SURNAME Hackmann, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hackemann, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and rediscoverer of the Low German version of Reineke Fuchs
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Gandersheim
DATE OF DEATH around 1745