Andreas Toppius

Andreas Toppius (born April 16, 1605 in Sondershausen ; † June 6, 1677 in Tennstedt ) was a German Protestant pastor and regional historian .

Life

Toppius was born as the son of the cloth maker Andreas Martinus Topf. His family was one of the long-established families of craftsmen in Sondershausen. After attending the Latin school in his hometown, he began studying theology . From 1626 he studied in Wittenberg , from 1629 in Rinteln . After graduation Toppius was first pastor in Rohnstedt , in 1638 he became pastor of the Johanniskirche in Wenigen-Tennstedt . Although Wenigen-Tennstedt fell desolate in the course of the Thirty Years' War between 1641 and 1644 , Toppius persevered until the church and the rectory were demolished in 1655. Suspended during this time, he made his living writing non-fiction books. After the church buildings were demolished, Toppius went with his family to Tennstedt, where he worked as a pastor again until his death in 1677.

Toppius had been married to the mayor's daughter Dorothea Rümpler since 1632, and the marriage resulted in 13 children, some of whom died at an early age.

Act

Toppius wrote topographical and historical treatises, in particular city chronicles and descriptions of cities such as Tennstedt, Erfurt , Ohrdruf , Gebesee and Greußen , which formed the basis for later historians . He made particular contributions to researching local history in Thuringia , in particular to the county of Schwarzburg . One of his most extensive works, the history of the city of Eisenach , was only published posthumously by Christian Juncker in 1710 .

Works

• Old history and report of the first and oldest city and castle in Thuringia , also the royal and headquarters and mighty fortress Scheidingen an der Unstrut called Burgscheidungen

literature

• Urania cultural and educational association Gotha eV (Ed.): Eisenacher personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 , p. 137 .
• Ludwig Friedrich Hesse: Life and writings of the Thuringian historian Andreas Toppius . In: Serapeum . tape 25 , 1864, pp. 257–271 ( full view on Google Books ).
• View at DigiZeitschriften

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Toppius in the WorldCat catalog

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Planck Institute for History (ed.): The German King Palaces . tape 2 : Thuringia . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-36511-X , p. 524 .