Anna Jansz

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Anna Jansz (also: Anneken Jans , Anneke Jansz , Anneke Janszdr. , Anneke Esaiasdcha , Anneken Jans uyt den Briel or Anneke van Rotterdam ; * 1509 or 1510 in Brielle ; † January 24, 1539 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ) was a martyr of the Anabaptist movement . She wrote the Anabaptist Trumpet Song .

Life

Anna Jansz on the way to the execution, depiction from the Märtyrerspiegel 1685

Anna Jansz came from a wealthy family from Brielle who lived on the Dutch island of Putten . She was married to Arent Jansz . At the end of 1533, Gerrit Boekbinder and Johann Bockelson , who later became the so-called King of the Anabaptist Empire of Münster , came to Putten. Their work led to the establishment of an Anabaptist congregation. In February or March 1534 were Anna and Gerrit Jansz by Meynaart van Emden , a trailer Bockelson, baptized . She must have been 23 or 24 years old at the time of her baptism. Only a short time later, a persecution of the young community began on Putten. Numerous Anabaptists fled the island in June 1534. Among them was Anna's husband, who went into exile in England.

Anna Jansz stayed behind. By autumn 1538 she was able to evade the pursuit of the authorities and even give other Anabaptists, including David Joris , temporary refuge in her home. During this time Jansz wrote the so-called trumpet song "Ick hoorde de Basuyne blasen". The song, shaped by the apocalyptic-revolutionary mood around the uprising in Münster and the storming of the Amsterdam City Hall, has the character of an Anabaptist hymn, which promises redemption and liberation from oppression to the believers, but prophesies a bloody end to the rulers.

In November 1538 Jansz made himself suspicious by singing an Anabaptist song. She was arrested, taken to Rotterdam as a prisoner, tortured there and finally sentenced to death by drowning. On January 24, 1539, on the way to her execution, she is said to have promised her entire inheritance to anyone willing to adopt her 15-month-old son. According to the stories, a baker answered and promised to raise the child like his own. Anna Jansz's son Esaias de Lind later became a brewer and mayor of Rotterdam. He was also the subject of Anna's Spiritual Testament , which has come down to us along with her trumpet song in David Joris' song collection Een Geesteliick Liedt-Boecken . Her story was a 18 song entrance to the Anabaptist hymnal paragon and is just a few months have been sung in the streets of Hamburg after the appearance of the hymnbook.

Works

  • 1534–1536: Ick hoorde de Basuyne blowing (trumpet song)
  • 1536: Letter to David Joris

literature

  • Werner O. Packull : Anna Jansz of Rotterdam , in: Profiles of Anabaptist Women: Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneer , edited by C. Arnold Snyder, Linda A. Huebert Hecht, Waterloo, Ontario 1996. pp. 336-351.
  • Werner O. Packull: Anna Jansz of Rotterdam, a Historical Investigation of an Early Anabaptist Heroine . In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 78 (1987), pp. 147-173.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jans uyt den Briel, Anneken - The will that Anneken left her son Esaia
  2. ↑ Song No. 18 in the Anabaptist hymn book Ausbund ; Accessed July 8, 2011
  3. ↑ Original version of Ick hoorde die Basuyne blasen by Anneken J. , published in David Joris' collection of songs Een Geestelijck Liedt-Boecxken , edition from 1576 - 82, on the Nederlandse Liederenbank
personal data
SURNAME Jansz, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jans, Anneken; Jansz, Anneken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION radical Baptist
DATE OF BIRTH 1509 or 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Brielle
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1539
Place of death Rotterdam