Antonia of Württemberg

Antonia von Württemberg (born March 24, 1613 in Stuttgart , † October 1, 1679 in Liebenzell ) was Princess of Württemberg as well as a writer, patroness , Christian Kabbalist and founder of the Kabbalistic teaching table in Bad Teinach-Zavelstein .

Life

Princess Antonia von Württemberg was born in 1613 as the third of nine children from the marriage of Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg and Barbara Sophia von Brandenburg , daughter of Elector Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg . She was the versatile educated sister of Duke Eberhard III. von Württemberg , who played an important role in the Thirty Years' War .

During the Thirty Years War, many churches in Württemberg were looted and their decorations were robbed. Antonia von Württemberg made it her business to provide various churches with jewelry again through foundations. She was praised for her charity, her piety, her linguistic and universal erudition and was nicknamed "learned Princess Antonia". Because of her attitude of mind she was also called "Wuerttemberg Minerva" by contemporaries. As far as possible, Antonia devoted herself to the arts and sciences together with her two sisters Anna Johanna and Sibylla .

She was friends with the pre-Pietist Protestant theologian Johann Valentin Andreae and later also with the founder of Pietism as a movement, Philipp Jacob Spener . In addition to Johann Valentin Andreae, Antonia's surroundings included the pastors Johann Jacob Heinlin (mathematician), Johann Jacob Strölin (Hebrew), Johann Lorenz Schmidlin I (step-son of Heinlin) and Johann Ebermeier (also: Ebermaier), pastor in Zavelstein with the Teinach branch, the author of the emblem book New Poetic Hope Garden / This is: CCC. [300] and XXX. [30] Symbols of hope […]. Tübingen 1653, which, as was only shown in 1974, has become important for the emblematic background of the wall chart.

For example, the 270th emblem in Ebermeier's book is entitled “Emblema Illustriss [imae]. & [et] Celssissimae Dominae, D [ominae]. Antoniae, Ducissae VVürttemb [ergiae]. Praemium spei, corona ”. The crowned monogram "AV" of the princess, covered by an anchor as a symbol of hope, can be found at the top of the inside picture of the teaching board with the representation of the ten reflections (Sephiroth) of God.

Besides painting, Antonia was particularly interested in philosophy and languages and her particular fondness for Hebrew and Jewish Kabbalah. The Christianized expression of a special branch of tradition of Kabbalah finally found its way into the kabbalistic teaching board that she donated in the Trinity Church in Bad Teinach . This was a special kind of foundation , as its creation was followed with great sympathy by the founder. It became Antonia von Württemberg's personal testimony of faith.

She remained unmarried. She was buried in the Stuttgart collegiate church . Her heart was buried at her disposal in the wall of the Trinity Church in Bad Teinach behind the wall chart ( heart burial ).

literature

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Johann Lorenz Schmidlin: Pictura docens . [Teaching table.] With the collaboration of Reinhard Gruhl, Inga Woolston, Anne Eusterschulte, Anja Knebusch, Lothar Mundt and Felix Mundt, edited for the first time and translated by Fritz Felgentreu and Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers (Clavis Pansophiae, Volume 4). frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt 2007, ISBN 978-3-7728-2428-9 .
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger : The school chart of the Princess Antonia. Edited by Reinhard Breymayer and Friedrich Häußermann . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1977, ISBN 3-11-004130-8 (Texts on the History of Pietism, Department 7, Volume 1, 2 parts).

Literature on the life of Antonia

Axel Gotthard : Antonia. In: Sönke Lorenz , Dieter Mertens , Volker Press (eds.): Das Haus Württemberg. A biographical lexicon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4 , p. 152.
Gerhard Raff : Hie good Wirtemberg all the way. Volume 2: The House of Württemberg from Duke Friedrich I to Duke Eberhard III. With the Stuttgart, Mömpelgard, Weiltingen, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Neuenbürg and Oels lines in Silesia. 4th edition. Landhege, Schwaigern 2014, ISBN 978-3-943066-12-8 , pp. 331–355.

Research literature on the blackboard and its context

Otto Betz : Light from the uncreated light. The kabbalistic school chart of Princess Antonia . 3. Edition. Modifications made by Isolde Betz. Werner Grimm Verlag, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041501-2 .
Otto Betz , Isolde Betz; Adolf Killinger (arr.): A jewel of faith. The kabbalistic school chart of Princess Antonia in Bad Teinach. Evangelical church community Bad Teinach, Bad Teinach-Zavelstein o.J.
Reinhard Breymayer : Urban and literary life in Stuttgart in the 17th century. A bibliographical attempt with special consideration of Princess Antonia of Württemberg and her library . In: = Klaus Garber, with the participation of Stefan Anders and Thomas Elsmann (eds.): City and literature in the German-speaking area of the early modern period . tape 39/1 . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-484-36539-0 , p. 308-383 . Here p. 329–383: “On the kabbalistic school chart of the Stuttgart Princess Antonia Duchess of Württemberg in Bad Teinach”, therein p. 333 first reference to the handwriting Turris Antoniae Votiva . [Schematic overview of the teaching table.] - [2] Bl. 2 ° (Location: Württ. Landesbibliothek Stuttgart Call number: Cod. Misc. Fol. 24).
Reinhard Breymayer : Johann Lorenz Schmidlin's program publication 'Pictura docens' for the cabbalistic school chart of Princess Antonia in Bad Teinach. On the occasion of an important edition and with new references to the intellectual historical aftermath in the context of Hölderlin and Hegel . In: Sacred Art. Member gift of the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, vol. 36 (2007/2008). On behalf of the Kunstverein ed. by Michael Kessler . Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7966-1469-9 , p. 12-30 . (P. 13 fig.), Here p. 17–30: “On the aftermath of the 'Pictura docens' in idealism”.
Reinhard Breymayer : Between Princess Antonia von Württemberg and Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn . News about the magnetic field and tension of Prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger . Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, Dußlingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-924249-51-9 . (On the aftermath of the educational chart of Princess Antonia about Oetinger on the environment of Hölderlin , Hegel and Heinrich von Kleist )
Reinhard Breymayer : Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer . A pietistic theologian between Oetinger , Zinzendorf and Goethe. With […] an excursus on the importance of the doctrine of virtue and Biblical summaries for the teaching board in Steinhofer's official town of Teinach . Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, Dußlingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-924249-53-3 , p. 71–106 on the educational chart of Princess Antonia .
Reinhard Gruhl, Matthias Morgenstern : Two Hebrew prayers by Princess Antonia of Württemberg (1613–1679) in the context of the inauguration of the cabbalistic teaching board in Bad Teinach . In: JUDAICA. Contributions to understanding Judaism; 62nd year, issue 2 . June 2006, p. 97-130 .
Friedrich Häußermann: Pictura Docens. A prelude to Friedrich. Chr [istoph]. Oetinger's school chart for Princess Antonia of Württemberg. In: Leaves for Württemberg Church History. 66/67 (1966/1967), pp. 65-153. (Basic study rated excellent by Gershom Scholem in Judaica 4.)
Ernst Harnischfeger: Antonia or the estate inspection. Novella . Urachhaus publishing house, Stuttgart 1981. ISBN 3-87838-313-4 .
Ernst Harnischfeger: Mysticism in the Baroque. The world view of the Teinach school board. 2nd edition, Urachhaus publishing house, Stuttgart 1994.
Arnold Kuppler: Light from the uncreated light. The school chart of Princess Antonia in the Trinity Church in Bad Teinach from 1673 . Göppingen-Jebenhausen 2003.
Eva Johanna Schauer: Dramaturgia Pietatis in Württemberg in the 17th century. Princess Antonia zu Württemberg and her cabbalistic school chart . Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover 2003 (PhD thesis).
Eva Johanna Schauer: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and the cabbalistic school chart of the Württemberg princess Antonia in Teinach . In: Mathesis: Natural philosophy and arcane science around Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782) . Edited by Sabine Holtz, Gerhard Betsch and Eberhard Zwink ( Contubernium. Tübingen Contributions to the History of University and Science , Volume 63) . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08439-8 , pp. 165-181 .
Eva Johanna Schauer: Jewish Kabbalah and Christian Faith. The school chart of Princess Antonia zu Württemberg in Bad Teinach . In: Freiburg circular. Journal for Christian-Jewish Encounters 13 . 2006, p. 242-255 .
Eva Johanna Schauer, Eberhard Fritz, Elisabeth Frister (eds.): Education - Faith - Salvation. The legacy of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. The Teinach school chart . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-885-2 .
Reinhard Gruhl: The kabbalistic school chart of Antonia of Württemberg. Studies and documents on the Protestant reception of Jewish mysticism in an early modern group of scholars. Series: Early Modern Times 172. Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-049303-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ See the basic presentation by Otto Betz: Light from the uncreated light. The kabbalistic school chart of Princess Antonia in Bad Teinach. 3. Edition. edited by Isolde Betz. Werner Grimm Verlag, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041501-2 .
↑ On the art historical appraisal cf. especially Eva Johanna Schauer: Dramaturgia Pietatis in Württemberg in the 17th century. Princess Antonia zu Württemberg and her cabbalistic school chart . Phil. Diss. Hanover 2003.
↑ Primarily through his work Ein Geistlich Gemäld , published in 1615 in Tübingen under the pseudonym Huldrich StarckMann ; historical-critical edition: Johann Valentin Andreae: A spiritual painting […] ed. by Reinhard Breymayer. Tübingen [1992], through occupation with the biblical summaries, with the doctrine of virtue , the encyclopedic structure and the emblematic , Andreae influenced the environment of Princess Antonia and thus paved the way for the Kabbalistic teaching table . At Andreae's suggestion, even if the execution did not correspond to his ideas, the book by Conrad Rotenburger, which probably helped stimulate the biblical-summary structure of the teaching table: Biblical Summaries Vber iede and all chapters of the entire Holy Scriptures [without Paul's letter to Philemon] [...]. (Bietigheim [an der Enz]) 1630. - [Picture Bible with 1444 etchings from the Old and New Testament ]. - [Reprint:] Conrad Rotenburger: Biblical summaries . (Ed. By the Bietigheim-Bissingen History Association) Bietigheim-Bissingen 2011. Cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer […]. With […] an excursus on the importance of the doctrine of virtue and Biblical summaries for the teaching board in Steinhofer's official town of Teinach . Heck, Dußlingen 2012, pp. 71–106, especially pp. 75–82.

↑ See Eberhard Fritz: Princess Antonia von Württemberg in the spiritual and religious environment of the Württemberg court. In: Eva Johanna Schauer / Eberhard Fritz / Elisabeth Frister (eds.): Education - Faith - Salvation. The legacy of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. The Teinach school chart. Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014. pp. 7–23.

↑ See the important historical-critical edition Johann Lorenz Schmidlin: Pictura docens [teaching table ]. Edited for the first time with the collaboration of Reinhard Gruhl, Inga Woolston, Anne Eusterschulte, Anja Knebusch, Lothar Mundt and Felix Mundt. and translated by Fritz Felgentreu and Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers. frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2007 ( Clavis Pansophiae , Volume 4), ISBN 978-3-7728-2428-9 .

↑ See Reinhard Breymayer: On Friedrich Christoph Oetinger's Theologia Emblematica and its Dutch roots. In: Pietism and Réveil. Papers of the international conference: Pietism in the Netherlands and its international relations Zeist 18. – 22. June 1974 . Edited by J [ohannes] van den Berg and J [an-] P [ieter] van Dooren. With 7 illustrations . Brill, Leiden 1978 ( Kerkhistorische Bijdragen , deel 7), pp. 253-281; here pp. 260–263 and p. 276 on Ebermeier's emblem book. - Cf. also Reinhard Breymayer: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger's Theologia Emblematica and the teaching table of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. In: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger: The school chart of the Princess Antonia . Berlin, New York 1977, part 1, pp. 1–30, here p. 3. 15. 23 and p. [269]. [274] to Ebermeier's emblem book. See also Reinhard Breymayer / Red [action]: Ebermaier: Ebermeier , Johann. In: [Walther] Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . 2, completely revised edition. Edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann […]. Volume 3. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, p. 156 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Antonia of Württemberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Württemberg, Antonia von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Princess of Württemberg as well as a writer, patron, Christian Kabbalist and founder
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1679
Place of death	Liebenzell

[1] See the basic presentation by Otto Betz: Light from the uncreated light. The kabbalistic school chart of Princess Antonia in Bad Teinach. 3. Edition. edited by Isolde Betz. Werner Grimm Verlag, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041501-2 .

[2] On the art historical appraisal cf. especially Eva Johanna Schauer: Dramaturgia Pietatis in Württemberg in the 17th century. Princess Antonia zu Württemberg and her cabbalistic school chart . Phil. Diss. Hanover 2003.

[3] Primarily through his work Ein Geistlich Gemäld , published in 1615 in Tübingen under the pseudonym Huldrich StarckMann ; historical-critical edition: Johann Valentin Andreae: A spiritual painting […] ed. by Reinhard Breymayer. Tübingen [1992], through occupation with the biblical summaries, with the doctrine of virtue , the encyclopedic structure and the emblematic , Andreae influenced the environment of Princess Antonia and thus paved the way for the Kabbalistic teaching table . At Andreae's suggestion, even if the execution did not correspond to his ideas, the book by Conrad Rotenburger, which probably helped stimulate the biblical-summary structure of the teaching table: Biblical Summaries Vber iede and all chapters of the entire Holy Scriptures [without Paul's letter to Philemon] [...]. (Bietigheim [an der Enz]) 1630. - [Picture Bible with 1444 etchings from the Old and New Testament ]. - [Reprint:] Conrad Rotenburger: Biblical summaries . (Ed. By the Bietigheim-Bissingen History Association) Bietigheim-Bissingen 2011. Cf. Reinhard Breymayer: Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer […]. With […] an excursus on the importance of the doctrine of virtue and Biblical summaries for the teaching board in Steinhofer's official town of Teinach . Heck, Dußlingen 2012, pp. 71–106, especially pp. 75–82.

[4] See Eberhard Fritz: Princess Antonia von Württemberg in the spiritual and religious environment of the Württemberg court. In: Eva Johanna Schauer / Eberhard Fritz / Elisabeth Frister (eds.): Education - Faith - Salvation. The legacy of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. The Teinach school chart. Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014. pp. 7–23.

[5] See the important historical-critical edition Johann Lorenz Schmidlin: Pictura docens [teaching table ]. Edited for the first time with the collaboration of Reinhard Gruhl, Inga Woolston, Anne Eusterschulte, Anja Knebusch, Lothar Mundt and Felix Mundt. and translated by Fritz Felgentreu and Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers. frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2007 ( Clavis Pansophiae , Volume 4), ISBN 978-3-7728-2428-9 .

[6] See Reinhard Breymayer: On Friedrich Christoph Oetinger's Theologia Emblematica and its Dutch roots. In: Pietism and Réveil. Papers of the international conference: Pietism in the Netherlands and its international relations Zeist 18. – 22. June 1974 . Edited by J [ohannes] van den Berg and J [an-] P [ieter] van Dooren. With 7 illustrations . Brill, Leiden 1978 ( Kerkhistorische Bijdragen , deel 7), pp. 253-281; here pp. 260–263 and p. 276 on Ebermeier's emblem book. - Cf. also Reinhard Breymayer: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger's Theologia Emblematica and the teaching table of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. In: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger: The school chart of the Princess Antonia . Berlin, New York 1977, part 1, pp. 1–30, here p. 3. 15. 23 and p. [269]. [274] to Ebermeier's emblem book. See also Reinhard Breymayer / Red [action]: Ebermaier: Ebermeier , Johann. In: [Walther] Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . 2, completely revised edition. Edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann […]. Volume 3. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, p. 156 f.