Amicist order

Joseph Martin Kraus as a student in Erfurt with the Amicist order on his lapel

Amicist Cross

The Amicist Order (also: Mosellaner Order ) was a student order between 1771 and 1811.

history

The Amicist Order was founded in 1771 in Jena by Alsatian and Baden members of the Mosellaner Landsmannschaft and can be traced as a student order until 1811 in the university cities of Gießen , Marburg , Göttingen , Mainz , Erlangen , Erfurt , Tübingen , Leipzig , Würzburg , Halle and Jena. The order first existed within the Mosellaner Landsmannschaft in Jena and its customs were based on the Masonic lodges of the time. The so-called learned lodge later emerged within the Amicist order, which fought brawling and drinking. In 1793 the student character was lost after several bans and the order became a lodge.

The name amicist order can be derived from the Latin amicus (friend). In the name one can recognize the values ​​that were laid down in the religious principles by the members: friendship , honor , loyalty , mutual respect , commonality of joy and sorrow, subordination to the laws of community .

His motto was, "Vivat vera amicitia, vivat amicitia fructus honoris", expressed in the monogram as V and A on top of each other. In addition, two XX placed close to each other and two dots above and below a line.

Known members

• Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), German poet
• Johann Heinrich Heinrichs (1765–1850), German theologian, Hanover church councilor and superintendent
• Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792), German composer
• Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (1751–1828), German librarian and writer

literature

• Friedrich Christian Laukhard : The Mosellaner or Amicist order depicted according to its origin, internal constitution and distribution on the German universities. Hall 1799 ( digitized )
• Walter Richter: On the early history of the Amicist order . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 22 (1977), p. 19 ff.
• Maria Josef Bopp: The Alsatian students in the Amicist order in Jena . In: Elsaß-LothrJb 21, 1943, pp. 245-290
• Ingo Bach (ed.): The pedigree of Friedrich von Hardenberg from August 1791 to May 1793
• Karl Hoede: Guys out. As a reminder of the origins of the old boyhood. Frankfurt am Main 1962, pp. 39-42, 54.

Web links

• Search for Amicist orders in the German Digital Library
• Search for Amicist orders in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Founded by the later writer Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard .