Anton Heimreich

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Anton Heimreich (* 5. March 1626 in Trindermarsch , Old North beach , † 1685 in Nordstrandischmoor ) was a German, Evangelical Lutheran pastor in North beach, the diverse as the author chronicles , including the North Frisian Chronicle , and a transcript of the Nordstrandischen land law became known .

Life

Anton Heimreich came from a family of pastors in Schleswig. The name Heimreich itself is probably based on a wrong etymology from the patronymic Heinrich (s) and was only used by Anton Heimreich himself, his father and his son. His uncle Reinhold (1564–1647), who was a teacher at the Johanneum in Hamburg, latinized the name to Henrici.

His father Johannes Heimreich (1586–1664) was a pastor in Trindermarsch in the Edomsharde , a place on the island of Strand. His maternal grandfather, Henricus Dinggreve, was superintendent in Wismar . Anton Heimreich had two older brothers who also became pastors. On October 11, 1634, the Burchardi flood tore the island of Strand apart . 33 of the 57 houses of Trindermarsch were destroyed and the church was badly damaged. Together with the land clerk and deputy stable man Baltzer Novock, Johannes Heimreich undertook the reorganization of church and state affairs. In 1639 the parish of Trindermarsch was dissolved, the surviving Trindermarsch were parished in Odenbüll , the last remaining community of the now dissolved Edomsharde. Johannes Heimreich became provost and chief pastor of the old church on Pellworm . Part of the area of ​​the Trindermarsch parish was re-diked in 1663 to form today's Trendermarschkoog, the church, which was demolished in 1651, was not replaced.

However, Heimreich's family was quite wealthy despite the disaster. He was able to visit the Johanneum Lüneburg from 1643 to 1645 , then studied theology in Helmstedt and Leiden and then toured Germany, England, France, Rome, Hungary and Bohemia. In London he experienced the revolution under Oliver Cromwell . On December 26th, 1652, he returned to take over the pastoral position on Nordstrandischmoor, "this poor place", which at that time did not yet have its own church. The first pastor of Nordstrandischmoor, the retreat for the survivors of the disaster of 1634, had been his older brother Sebastian Heimreich since 1642 , who had been deposed for a sexual offense in 1649 and in 1652 together with many other stranders who had lost everything due to the Burchardi flood Uckermark pulled. In 1659 he became a preacher in the Danish West India Company and died in Friedrichsburg in Ghana in 1662 . But Anton Heimreich was not ordained a preacher until two years later. He stayed on Nordstrandischmoor until his death, probably not drawing his income from his poor Hallig community , but from his land in Pellworm and Eiderstedt . In addition, he served the French participants of the Oktroy for the recovery of northern beach as an agent. He was married to Helene Finck, the daughter of the Nordstrand land clerk, and had at least three children.

The exact date of Heimreich's death is not known, but in October 1685 a representation at a baptism was entered in the church register for his parish, so that one can assume a date of death in autumn 1685. Heimreich left a number of handwritten additions to the North Frisian Chronicle . After his death, his only son Heinrich Heimreich (1661–1730) succeeded him as pastor in Nordstrandischmoor in December 1685.

timeline

Anton Heimreich's North Frisian Chronicle from 1666 is the oldest chronicle in North Friesland to appear in print. For Strand, Heimreich was able to draw on the work of Matthias Boetius and Johannes Petreus in addition to the documents from his father and father-in-law, and for Eiderstedt on the annals of his contemporary Peter Sax . For the rest of North Frisia, for which no documents were available to him, his explanations remained incomplete. In his chronicle, Heimreich handed down the only written examples of the extinct Strander Frisian . The Nordstrandische Landrecht , which he published in 1670, is a translation of the Nordstrander Landrecht from 1572, which also contains the Spadelandrecht and was valid until 1900. His Schleßwig Church History was published in 1683 . His last work, the Dithmarsische Chronik , is primarily a reproduction of Neocorus ' previously unpublished chronicle.

Fonts

  • North Frisian Chronicle :
  • Nordstrandisches Landrecht (editor), Schleswig, 1670 - digitized SLUB Dresden, urn: nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id4532967937
  • Schleßwigische KirchenHistorie / Darinn The abolition of the pagan idolatry / and introduction of the Christian religion customary in the Roman churches , also founding of Schleßwigischen bishops and the life of the same bishops / and the finally undertaken Reformation , and after the same heresies which were revealed / among other events in Schleßwig's duchy KirchenHändelen / From credible writings and news is composed and pulled together by M. Antonium Heimreich Walthern / P. auf dem Mohre im NordStrande , Schleßwig 1683 - digitized UB Kiel, urn: nbn: de: gbv: 8: 2-702611
  • Dithmarsische Chronick / Darinn Nebenst der Landes Description The story / So before the freedom of the Dithmarscher Land gained / before had and after lost freedom / In three books / From all sorts of credible printed and written messages properly composed by M. Antonium HeimReich Walthern / Pastors Auff dem Nordstrandischen Mohre , Schleßwig 1683 - digitized UB Kiel, urn: nbn: de: gbv: 8: 2-746309

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sometimes, according to the author's statement of his works, Walther is also given as a surname . According to Nikolaus Falck's preface to the new edition of the North Frisian Chronicle . Tondern 1819, p. II, it is only a name extension mentioned by Heimreich in honor of an ancestor.
  2. ↑ a b Dieter Lohmeier: Heimreich (Walther), Anton . In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon , Volume 4. Neumünster 1976, pp. 86-88.
  3. ↑ Nikolaus Falck: Preface In: Nordfresische Chronik . Reprint of the 1668 edition, Tondern 1819, pp. II-V
  4. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen : Attempt at church statistics of the Duchy of Schleswig: Containing the provosts of Tondern, Husum with Bredstedt, and Eiderstedt . Flensburg 1841; P. 657
  5. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen: Attempt at church statistics of the Duchy of Schleswig: Containing the provosts of Tondern, Husum with Bredstedt, and Eiderstedt . Flensburg 1841; P. 667
  6. ^ Anton Heimreich: Schleßwigische Kirchen-Historie. Schleswig 1683, p. 194 Digitized at Kiel University Library - old prints up to 1800
  7. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen: Attempt at church statistics of the Duchy of Schleswig: Containing the provosts of Tondern, Husum with Bredstedt, and Eiderstedt . Flensburg 1841, p. 1308
personal data
SURNAME Heimreich, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Frisian pastor and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Trindermarsch , north beach
DATE OF DEATH before October 1685
Place of death Nordstrandischmoor