Adrian Höynck
Adrian Höynck (born October 20, 1701 in Bilstein ; † January 26, 1749 in Arnsberg ) was abbot in the Premonstratensian Monastery of Wedinghausen .
Life
Höynck was born on October 20, 1701 in Bilstein as the third son and sixth child of the administrator and rent master of Bilstein Johann Everhard Höynck and his wife Maria Theodora Meyer and baptized two days later in the castle chapel there with the name Joannes Arnoldus Antonius. He had ten siblings.
He attended high school in Wedinghausen . Since 1720 he can be proven as "junior" in the monastery Wedinghausen. There he took the monastery name "Adrian". In 1735 he appears as pastor of Arnsberg at a wedding. A year later he was elected abbot of the Wedinghausen monastery on July 30, 1736. In this capacity he had the right to wear a miter .
Adrian Höynck died on January 26th, 1749 in Arnsberg. A picture of him hangs in the chapter house of the former Wedinghausen monastery .
literature
- Franz Honselmann: Sauerland Family Archive, unchanged reprint of the 1931 edition, Paderborn 1983.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Höynck, Adrian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Höynck, Joannes Arnoldus Antonius (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of the Wedinghausen Monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1701 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bilstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1749 |
| Place of death | Arnsberg |