Christoph Bidembach
Christoph Bidembach (* second half of the 16th century in Stuttgart ; † March 18, 1622 ; also Christoph Bidenbach ) was a German registrar and archivist .
Life
Christoph Bidembach came from the Bidembach family ; his father was Balthasar Bidembach . Prepared for the Stuttgart pedagogy, he came to Tübingen Abbey in 1580. He studied since April 8, 1581 at the University of Tübingen , where he received the degree of Baccalaureus on September 26, 1582 , but was expelled from the university for unknown reasons. He then worked as a church council clerk from 1588 to 1597 , then as a church council registrar until 1603 and then as court registrar. In addition to that he worked as an archivist until the beginning of 1608, and from summer 1608 to 1611 he was again an archivist. From the following year until his death on March 18, 1622, Bidembach was the registrar of the upper council, that is to say for ten years. He had been married to Rosina Reihing since 1587 and had several children, including Johann Christoph and Rosina, who married Hans Heinrich Beihel.
plant
- Regiae Stutgardianae brevis et succincta descriptio (Tübingen 1586)
Walther Ludwig's essay
Walther Ludwig wrote an essay on this work by Bidembach. He begins with the question of whether Stuttgart city history research has missed a work. He answers this question in the affirmative. Bidembach's work, a humanistic description of the city, which at the time was dedicated to the mayor and city council members, is missing in Tübingen and Stuttgart libraries, even in electronic files such as the VD 16 the work does not appear. So it was forgotten. Ludwig found the work by chance in a library while looking for a completely different work. He found the font in a compilation of 28 works from the end of the 16th century. As a possible translation for the title Ludwig gives a short and concise description of the Stuttgart princely residence city .
Ludwig makes assumptions about Bidembach's year of birth, which is in the dark. Since he had passed the pedagogy in 1580, for which he probably needed six years, and had probably entered it at the age of ten, he should have been born in 1564 at the latest. This is refuted, however, since all of Balthasar's other children, who were born between 1560 and 1570, appear in the Stuttgart baptismal register. So he should have been born before June 4, 1560, his father had been in Stuttgart since 1557. Ludwig also suspects that Christoph's name could have been derived from the then Duke Christoph, who was his godfather, because the Bidembach family was in contact with the Württemberg authorities.
Christoph Bidembach wrote his work, Ludwig suspects, so that he would not distance himself completely from the learned theological family tradition, since almost all of his relatives became Protestant clergy.
Bidembach's exact date of death is controversial. In documents up to 1622 he is mentioned in his respective positions, but a copy of a Stuttgart marriage register mentions him as deceased on September 7, 1607, at the wedding of his daughter. Walther Ludwig suspects that there was only a mix-up in the register, that the cross was incorrectly inserted. He cannot assign the date of death 1622 to any other Bidembach. In Ludwig's essay he mentions that someone else suspects that Bidembach's grandson, the illegitimate son Johann Christoph (who in turn would be a son of the son of the same name, Christoph Bidembach) actually died on March 18, 1622. This illegitimate grandson can be proven with his baptism on January 5, 1614, but Ludwig refutes this thesis because Christoph Bidembach is mentioned alive throughout the documents.
literature
- Walther Ludwig: An unknown description of Stuttgart by Christoph Bidembach (1585). A chance find from Dr. David Holder's library in: Journal for Württemberg State History 57, 1998
- Julian Kümmerle: Lutheranism, humanistic education and the Württemberg territorial state: The Bidembach family of scholars from the 16th to the 18th century . Kohlhammer, 2007, ISBN 3-17-019953-6 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bidembach, Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bidenbach, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German registrar and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1622 |