Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz

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Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz (copper engraving by August Christian Fleischmann (1704–1732))

Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz, also Latinized Andreas Henricus Bucholtz (born November 25, 1607 in Schöningen , † May 20, 1671 in Braunschweig ), was a German Lutheran theologian and writer of the Baroque era .

Life

Andreas Heinrich was the twin brother of the lawyer Christoph Joachim Bucholtz and the son of the superintendent of Schöningen Joachim Bucholtz (* in Brandenburg / Havel; † March 8, 1622 in Hameln) and his wife Elisabeth Praetorius (* Frankfurt / Oder; † February 11, 1642 born in Hameln). After initial private lessons, he attended school in Hameln from 1618. After his father's death, he and his brother were sent to Brandenburg an der Havel , where his step-grandfather, the local superintendent Joachim Garcaeus, took care of the upbringing of the children and both attended the local school. After his grandmother Theodora Musculus († 1624 in Brandenburg / Havel) died, he attended school in Magdeburg from 1624, which was under the direction of the rector Sigismund Evenius . But since he did not like the climate there, he returned to Hameln in June of the same year and shortly afterwards went to Herford. Together with his brother he moved to the University of Wittenberg on September 19, 1627 , where he acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy on September 21, 1630.

Since his mother could not afford to have two sons at a university, he left Wittenberg on January 3, 1631 to work as a private teacher in Hameln. There he became vice principal at the city school in Hameln in 1632 , but from 1634 studied theology at the University of Rostock . He was also engaged there as a teacher of philosophy and morals. In 1637 he became rector of the grammar school in Lemgo ( County Lippe ). The turmoil of the Thirty Years' War forced him to move to Rinteln in 1639 . There he became professor of philosophy and poetry at the University of Rinteln in 1641, and in 1645 also associate professor of theology. In 1647 he changed to the church service in Braunschweig as coadjutor and in 1663 became superintendent there.

Bucholtz became known through his works about Horace , with which he contributed to its lasting reception in humanism and classicism in Germany as one of the most important Roman poets of the " Augustan period ". As a novelist, Bucholtz met the taste of the times with his great heroic novels, which, interspersed with learning and piety, found a relatively broad readership. With Lohenstein and others, he is one of the innovators of German baroque fiction and one of the founders of the historical novel . 1659-60 he published Hercules and Valiska , the first courtly historical novel in German literature that was not based on foreign models, in order to counteract the shallow entertainment literature of the Amadis novels with a Christian moral. Yet this 1,800-page colossal novel offers hardly less bloodthirsty imagination than the competition. His second giant novel, Herkuliskus und Herkuladisla from 1665, lacks the clear structure of the previous one and confuses the reader with no fewer than 450 characters.

Buchholtz had married Katharina Magaretha von Windheim, the daughter of the patrician Georg von Windheim, on November 14, 1646 in Hanover. This marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters. The youngest son died in childhood.

Works (selection)

  • Oden book translated into German and explained with short notes. (Translation by Horace ' Odarum liber ), Rinteln 1639.
  • Germanized art of poetry explained with short notes. (Translation by Horace ' Ars poetica ), Rinteln 1639.
  • Christmas joy. Rinteln 1639.
  • Advent chant. Rinteln 1640.
  • German Poetic Psalter of David. Rinteln 1640
  • Sad and consoled Sion. Rinteln 1640 ( online )
  • Old and New Warring Church. Rinteln 1642 ( online )
  • Christian joy in Christmas and a warm wish for peace. Rinteln 1643.
  • Spiritual German poemata. 2 parts, Braunschweig 1651.
  • The pious children of God Temporary suffering and eternal glory. Braunschweig 1654 ( digitized version ).
  • Some and complete reconciliation For the whole of the world's sin Jesus Christ. In the consoling proverb of the first epistle, John cap. II. V. 1.2. ...: Caused And Bey Volckreicher funeral of the corpse of ... Valentini Rademacher / Wolvermermer Pastoris emeriti in the city of Braunschweig ... presented and explained. Braunschweig 1664 ( online )
  • The Christian German grand prince Hercules and… Valiska miracle story. 2 vols. Zilliger, Braunschweig 1659–1660 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive, vol. 1, digitized and full text in the German text archive, vol. 2) (reprinted by Ulrich Maché, Bern 1973–1979)
  • The Christian royal prince Herculiskus and Herculadisla ... miracle story. Braunschweig 1665 (reprinted by Ulrich Maché, Bern 1982)
  • Hertzens Felß and Antheil All Children of God: Except for the consolation and faith saying / psalm. LXXIII. v. 25.26. Lord / if I only have you / [et] c. Arranged / And in the event of a handsome, popular corpse entombment / Deß ... Messrs. Joachim Lütgen / Merited Mayor. Braunschweig 1665 ( online )
  • Most powerful consolation of faith. Braunschweig 1666 ( digitized version )
  • Basic and chief cause Why an understanding Evangelical Christian does not become Roman-Catholic / But will and remain Evangelical-Catholic: Namely / Because only a few words / Salvation. Writes / God's word is / The tradition / ... is by no means God's word. Braunschweig 1671 ( online )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Bucholtz from Brandenburg enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in April 1580 and an underage Joachim Buchholtz from Brandenburg on August 4, 1591
  2. ↑ Joachim Garcäus (* 1567 in Brandenburg / Havel; † June 2, 1633 ibid) was the son of the former Greifswald professor and superintendent in Brandenburg / Havel Johann Garcäus (* 1530 in Wittenberg; † January 22, 1574 in Brandenburg / Havel) and his wife Katharina Damsdorf, attended high schools in Brandenburg and Braunschweig, then the universities in Helmstedt, Wittenberg and Frankfurt / Oder, professor of the Greek language in Frankfurt / Oder, 1594 pastor in Sagan, 1598 superintendent Sorau, 1618 superintendent Brandenburg, m. I 1588 with Dorothea Prätorius (née Musculus), married. II Ursula Schinnemann (see Pfb. Brandenburg I p. 232)
  3. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934, p. 316
  4. ↑ See the entry of Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Bucholtz, Andreas Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bucholtz, Andreas Henricus; Buchholz; Buchholtz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöningen
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1671
Place of death Braunschweig