Bartholomäus Anhorn the Younger

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Bartholomäus Anhorn the Younger (also Bartholomäus Anhorn von Hartwiss ; born January 17, 1616 in Fläsch , † July 6, 1700 in Elsau ) was an Evangelical Reformed pastor and historian from Switzerland .

Life

Bartholomäus Anhorn von Hartwiss, son of pastor Daniel Anhorn (1594-1635), who founded the name Anhorn von Hartwiss, and grandson of the important church historian Bartholomäus Anhorn the Elder , was born on January 17, 1616 in Fläsch in the Bündner Herrschaft in the Swiss canton of Graubünden born. In 1628 he began to study at the Collegium Carolinum , the precursor to the University of Zurich ; later he moved to the University of Basel , where he finished his studies in 1632.

On June 6, 1634, he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Chur . Associated with the admission was the right to work as a pastor in the Free State of the Three Leagues . Anhorn became pastor in Grüsch and Seewis in the same year . In 1635 he moved to Hundwil in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . In 1637 and 1638 he was plague preacher in St. Gallen , in whose synod he had been accepted the previous year. In 1638 he became pastor in St. Gallen, where he stayed until 1648.

In the course of the reorganization of the Reformed churches in the Electoral Palatinate after 1649, Anhorn was appointed pastor and church inspector at Mosbach . Because he blessed 24 Catholic churches for the Reformed worship service, he gained a high reputation with Elector Karl Ludwig .

In 1660 Anhorn was particularly noticeable for his satirical writings: When it became known that he had been involved in a controversial work against the Heidelberg law professor Johannes Friedrich Böckelmann , he was captured and taken abroad. In 1661 he returned to Switzerland and took over the pastoral position in Bischofszell in Thurgau . Due to his combative nature, Anhorn was repeatedly involved in denominational disputes.

Although he became dean in 1676 , he had to leave Bischofszell two years later at the instigation of the cathedral chapter in Konstanz , as he had repeatedly expressed himself polemically towards Catholics in his sermons and writings.

He became a pastor in Elsau in the canton of Zurich in 1678 , where he died on July 6, 1700 after falling from a cherry tree.

The physician Sylvester Samuel Anhorn von Hartwiss was his son.

Selection of works

  • Decades quatuor thesium, e philosophia in genere, ejusque parte instrumentali (Basel 1632)
  • Meletemata sacra miscellanea, Germaniae & Martialibus ferociis ereptae statui & conditioni attempera (Frankfurt 1661)
  • True blessing of all true believers / who keep their Savior Jesus Christ vest. At the funeral of Magdalena Rietmann (Basel 1663)
  • Christian matrons Bliss / achieved through childbearing… Bey of the funeral… Frawe Elisabeth Rietmann , (Basel 1669)
  • Christian matrons bliss / achieved through childbearing. God's praise / and Christian joy / because of the wedding of the lamb and jewelry of his bride
  • Magiologia. Christian warning for superstition and wizardry (Basel 1674) online
  • Christian wedding sermon / from our Lord Jesus Christ / the true physician of soul and body. When consecrated in marriage (1681)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Jürgen Seidel: Anhorn, Bartholomäus (the younger). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Anhorn, Bartholomew the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anhorn von Hartwiss, Bartholomäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss reformed pastor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottle
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1700
Place of death Elsau