Anton Hoen

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Anton Hoen (* around 1540/41 in Herborn ; † August 7, 1587 there ) was land clerk, commander and official administrator of the County of Diez .

Live and act

Anton Hoen, born around 1540/41, joined the Nassau-Dillenburg family in 1566 after studying law in Wittenberg as a clerk for the County of Diez . During his studies Anton - like many of his contemporaries - was inspired to write poetry by the death of the Praeceptor Germaniae Philipp Melanchthon . Three of his great and artistic poems, which were written in 1560 and 1561, were published in an honorable place.

Anton Hoen's humanistic education enabled him to write extensive poems in which he not only demonstrated his linguistic dexterity, but also a clear line of thought. Literary exercises were part of the training of every student back then, even if very few of them reached the level required for printing. The later job usually offered no more leisure for such time-consuming games. Although Anton Hoen is not a real poet with an unmistakable individuality, an exemplary representative of a highly educated class of civil servants from the time of late humanism can be known from his poems .

Anton Hoen rose over time under Count Johann VI. became a major figure in County Diez. Soon after his appointment as land clerk, he was entrusted with the management of the winery businesses in Nassau , Kirberg and Camberg in addition to the winery of the Dierstein monastery , some of which he managed until his death. As early as 1567 he appeared as the commander and administrator of the County of Diez, which at that time included Hadamar and Ellar in addition to the nassau-katzenelnbogic part of the quadrilateral . As a cellar we find it attested for Nassau from 1574 and for Kirberg and Camberg 1585, while it is mentioned as bailiff for Hadamar and Ellar from 1582 to 1587 . Anton Hoen died shortly before August 7, 1587. Anton Hoen was married to Anna Camberger, the daughter of the Nassau councilor Andreas Camberger. On November 14, 1592 Anna Hoen married the successor in office of her deceased husband, Dr. jur. utr. Alexander son.

children

Three sons have become known from Anton Hoen's marriage to Anna Camberger, all of whom have entered the service of the sovereign. * Johann took over the cellars in Kirberg and Camberg,

  • Anton the Younger (II.) Became the cellar over the former Diersteiner monastery property and
  • Philipp Heinrich became the statesman of the house of Nassau- Katzenelnbogen .

Philipp Heinrich Hoen not only worked as an important lawyer through widely distributed works from Herborn , he was also the leading councilor and statesman of Nassau-Dillenburg for almost 40 years, well known and highly honored, at the Grafenhof in Dillenburg as well as at the Kaiserhof in Vienna. Philipp Heinrich was married to a daughter Anna (Enchen) of the Nassau-Dillenburg Council Erasmus Stöver. From his father-in-law he had inherited a house in Dillenburg with " castle freedom " "on the huts next to the boot", which he lived in with his family and of whose property he and his wife gave a part to the Dillenburg magistrate and innkeeper in 1622 Herberge zum Stiefel “Eoban Kempfer and his wife Margarete sold. Hoen's wife Anna died on May 2nd, 1635 at the castle in Dillenburg and was buried on May 7th in the Dillenburg town church. In 1636 Rat Hoen entered into a second marriage with Elisabeth von Se (e) lbach-Zeppenfeld (d. 1648). There is almost no other news about Hoen's private life. Only one has survived. It throws a significant light on the confusion of that time, in which, aided by war and plague, the witch craze flared up again. The fact that he also demanded his victims in the Dillenburg region, which even led to a personal attack on a well-deserved and highly respected man like Philip Heinrich von Hoen, says a message that in a trial in 1632 a woman from Eibach with bad repute stated " the councilor Hoen himself was at the witch's dance, because he was a sorcerer and not only got drunk but also behaved otherwise naughty ”.

Grandchildren

The marriage of Philipp Heinrich to Anna Stöver resulted in three sons and nine daughters, some of whom apparently died early. Two of the sons also died before their parents.

  • Erasmus, the eldest of the three, attended the Dillenburg Latin School until the end of October 1614 , switched to the 5th class of the Herborner Pedagogy on November 4, 1614 and studied law at the local high school in 1623. Later he went to the military and took part in the fighting of the time in the Netherlands, then in the army of the Danish king Christian IV . He entered the Venetian service in 1631, but in the same year he drowned in the "Cantabrian Sea" while crossing to Venice. In the Herborn register of Erasmus Hoen we find the following addition: »postea miles in Belgio, item sub rege Daniae, tandem inter alios lectus a Venetianis in urbe Amstedolamiensi; quorum signa e Batavia secutus naufragio in Oceano Contabrico submersus anno 1631 obiit « .
  • Philipp Heinrich the Younger (II.) Left the Dillenburg Latin School on April 25, 1623 in the third class of the Herborn Education and also studied law at the High School from 1626 . He also turned to the war trade, did, like his brother, first service in the Netherlands and then joined a regiment set up by his sovereign, Count Ludwig Heinrich von Nassau-Dillenburg, and transferred into Swedish service, in whose ranks he was when ensign (Signifer) found a soldier's death on February 5, 1634 during the siege of Ruffach in Alsace. The Herborn register notes: »postea miles in Belgio, tandem signifer sub generoso nostro comite domino Ludovico = Henrico in Nassau in exercitu regiae maiestatis Sueciae; in oppugnatione Ruffaci Alsatiorum oppidi anno 1634 nonis Febr. occubuit « .
  • Anton (III.), The youngest of the brothers, attended the Dillenburg Latin School until 1640 and studied in Herborn from April 20, 1640. From April 1641, like his brothers, he was a soldier in the army of the Netherlands and took part in the siege of Gennep . Later he continued his studies in Herborn , then in Franeker .

Of the five remaining daughters of Philipp Heinrich Hoens, Anna Kunigunde Jacobe married the widowed imperial notary and Dillenburg town clerk Philipp Heinrich Manger in 1640, Katharina married the court preacher Hermann Vigelius from Niederwesel near Kleve in 1634 and another daughter the professor of philosophy at the High School in Herborn Johann Philipp Schmidt.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scheible, Heinz: Anton Hoens poem on Melanchthon. In: Nassauische Annalen 80 (1969), pp. 81-100. see. Heinz Scheible, Anton Hoen's poem on Melanchthon
personal data
SURNAME Hoen, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landschreiber, commander and administrative officer of the county Diez
DATE OF BIRTH around 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Herborn
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1587
Place of death Herborn