Abraham Hartwich

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Abraham Hartwich (born January 28, 1663 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † 1720 in Bahrenhof near Bärwalde in West Prussia ) was a German Protestant theologian , educator , regional historian and non-fiction author .

Life

Hartwich's parents were Benjamin Hartwich, braid master († 1695), and Maria Balck († 1675). He was the youngest of the couple's nine children. From April 1681 he studied theology at the University of Königsberg . Hartwich had worked as a teacher at the Löbenicht Latin School in the Königsberg district of Löbenicht since 1693 , the last year of which he was vice principal. In 1698 he became pastor in Lindenau (on the Nogat , southwest of Elbing , in the great Marienburger Werder ) in West Prussia. In 1712 he moved to Bahrenhof (also known as Barenhof and Baarenhof) near Bärwalde, Marienburg district, where he took over the pastor's office and where he died. His detailed description of the three Prussian Werder, published in the Gelehrten Preußen , 1st part, p. 54 ff., Came out in 1722 after his death. The much used and referenced work comprises 548 pages.

Works

Geographical-historical country description of the three Werdern lying in Pohlnian Prussia, as the Dantziger, Elbing- and Marienburgischen. 1722
  • Geographical-historical country description of the three Werdern lying in Pohlnian Prussia, as the Dantziger, Elbing- and Marienburgischen. In which, according to the previous geographical description of these countries according to their name, situation, characteristics, borders, villages, rivers, forests, animals, fruits and plants, with more of the inhabitants quality, language, customs, customs, privileges and freedoms, religion and worship, church and schools, government and regimental form, trade and home affairs are traded. Hence the strange war coincidences, fire and water damage as well as dealings with virtue and vice are cited . Königsberg 1723 ( full text ).

literature

  • On the biography of Abraham Hartwich . In: Communications of the West Prussian History Association . Volume 9,! 910, p. 6.
  • Old Prussian biography . Volumes 1–2, Gräfe and Unzer, 1941.
  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University . Second part, to which a message from the life and the writings of a hundred Prussian scholars is attached. Königsberg 1746, p. 509.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GC Pisanski: From the schools in Königsberg in the seventeenth century . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 9, Königsberg 1850, pp. 458-467, in particular pp. 465-467.
personal data
SURNAME Hartwich, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, educator, regional historian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH 1720
Place of death Bahrenhof , Bärwalde , West Prussia