Christian Hennig from Jessen

Christian Hennig "von Jessen" (born November 30, 1649 in Jessen ; † September 27, 1719 in Wustrow , Wendland ) was a German pastor and linguist who provided one of the most important sources for the vocabulary of the Polabian language , which died out in the 18th century which he coined the term "Wendisch".

Life

Vocabularium Venedicum , partial print by Johann Georg von Eckhart (1711).

Christian Hennig was born as the son of the schoolmaster, cloth maker and later city judge Christian Hennigk the Elder. Ä. and his wife Ursula geb. Fisher born. From 1670 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Wittenberg . In 1675 he got his first job as a cantor and schoolmaster in Wienhausen near Celle . From 1679 until his death he worked as a pastor in Wustrow.

Johann Georg von Eckhart printed excerpts from Hennig's Vocabularium Venedicum in 1711 in his Historia studii etymologici linguae germanicae .

Works

Vocabularium Venedicum (or Wendish Word Book). Reprinted by Reinhold Olesch. Böhlau, Cologne [et al.] 1959, DNB 451953657 .

literature

Reinhard Hennings: Christian Hennig von Jessen (1649–1719): Pastor, linguist and traditional researcher in Wustrow. In: Stephan von Welck (ed.): Ernst Köhring lectures on the history of the Wendland 2009–2011 (= regional history of Hannoversches Wendland; 1). Köhring, Lüchow 2012, ISBN 978-3-926322-53-1 , pp. 185-194.
Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Hennig, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 774.
Reinhold Olesch: Afterword. In: Christian Hennig von Jessen: Vocabularium Venedicum (or Wendish Word Book). Böhlau, Cologne [et al.] 1959, DNB 451953657 , pp. 397-406.
Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover. Volume 2. Schünemann, Bremen 1823, p. 698 f. ( Digitized version ).
Franz Tetzner: Christian Hennig, the historian of the Polabians. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony , 1902, pp. 182-272 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Christian Hennig von Jessen in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Hennig von Jessen, Christian im VD 18 .
Portrait picture
Little story of Wustrow (Wendland) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Hennig usually referred to himself with this name after his place of birth
^ Franz Tetzner: On the history of the Polish dictionary. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. 1 (1902), pp. 67-96, here p. 96 ( digitized version ).
^ Johann Georg von Eckhart: Historia studii etymologici linguae germanicae. Nikolaus Förster, Hanover 1711, pp. 268-273 and 275-306 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Hennig von Jessen, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henning von Jessen, Christian; Hennig, Christian; Henning, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pastor and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jessen
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 1719
Place of death	Wustrow , Wendland

[1] Hennig usually referred to himself with this name after his place of birth

[2] Franz Tetzner: On the history of the Polish dictionary. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. 1 (1902), pp. 67-96, here p. 96 ( digitized version ).

[Eckart-3] Johann Georg von Eckhart: Historia studii etymologici linguae germanicae. Nikolaus Förster, Hanover 1711, pp. 268-273 and 275-306 ( digitized version ).