Abraham Hinckelmann

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Abraham Hinckelmann, copper engraving by Johann Friedlein

Abraham Hinckelmann (also: Hinkelmann ; * May 2, 1652 in Döbeln ; † February 11, 1695 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist.

Life

Born as the son of councilor and pharmacist Martin Hinckelmann and his wife Anna (born in thirty), he had received training in his hometown and in 1664 moved to the grammar school in Freiberg . Prepared there for university studies, he went to the University of Wittenberg on October 8, 1668 , where he studied with Abraham Calov , among others , and on April 28, 1670 acquired the degree of master's degree.

After staying in Wittenberg for four years, he took over a position as principal of the school in Gardelegen in 1672 . Just three years later, on January 7, 1675, he changed to the Katharineum in Lübeck in the same position . In the same year he married Elisabeth Schirmer, the widow of his predecessor Hermann Nottelmann. In 1685 he went as a deacon at the Hamburg St. Nikolai Church , received his doctorate in 1687 at the University of Kiel to the doctor of theology and in the same year by Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt , the general superintendent called Churches and court preacher.

In this function he also held the position of honorary professor of theology at the University of Giessen . In 1689 he was called back to Hamburg, where he took over the post of main pastor at the St. Katharinen Church . As a representative of Pietism, he was also involved in the denominational disputes of his time, in particular in a violent argument between himself, Johann Winckler , the main pastor to St. Michaelis and Johann Heinrich Horb , the main pastor to St. Nicolai, with Johann Friedrich Mayer , the Lutheran-Orthodox -minded main pastor of St. Jacobi . For religious reasons, Hinckelmann was a staunch opponent of the opera on the Gänsemarkt (today's Hamburg State Opera ) and fought it fiercely in the first Hamburg theater dispute . He was also one of the three refusers of the Hamburg religion lapel .

Another important contribution to Protestant teaching was his pamphlet against Jakob Boehme's pantheism , which he wrote in 1693 - a little in a hurry because of the upcoming Leipzig Book Fair - : Investigation and refutation of the basic doctrine contained in Jacob Boehme's writings .

In literary terms he has made a name for himself as an orientalist. His particular merit lies in the publication of the first readily available complete Arabic edition of the Koran in 1694. The Hamburg mayor Johann Diedrich Schaffshausen acquired a manuscript of the Koran during his stay in Vienna and brought it to Hamburg in 1686.

Some of the hymns created by Hinckelmann were included in the Hallische Gesangbuch by Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen in 1704 and were thus widely used in the 18th century. However, none of them can still be found in the hymnal today.

Works (selection)

  • Testamentum et pactiones inter Muhammedem et christianae fidei cultores. (Arabic and Latin) Brendeke, Hamburg 1690
  • Detectio fundamenti Böhmiani, investigation and refutation of the basic doctrine that is negotiated in Jacob Böhmens Schrifften . Georg König, Hamburg 1693
  • Al-Coranus sive Lex Islamitica Muhammedis, Filii Abdallae, Pseudoprophetae, ad optimorum Codd. Fidem edita ex museo Abr. Hincckelm. D. (Arabic and Latin) Schultz-Schiller, Hamburg 1694
  • Tertullian's Apologeticus

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predecessor Office successor
Hermann Nottelmann Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck
1675 - 1685 		Enoch Schwante the Younger
predecessor Office successor
David Klug Chief Pastor to St. Katharinen in Hamburg
1688 - 1695 		Johann Volckmar
personal data
SURNAME Hinckelmann, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinkelmann, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1695
Place of death Hamburg