Daniel Wilhelmi

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Market square with the tower of St. Nikolai Church

Daniel Wilhelmi (born February 6, 1623 in Uelzen , † November 10, 1689 in Rinteln ) was a Protestant German preacher and professor of history.

Life

Daniel Wilhelmi was the son of Ernst Wilhelmi, a businessman, and his wife Christina, née Ellerdorfs. After attending school in Uelzen, he went to high school in Lüneburg , Hanover and Flensburg . At the age of 20 he attended the universities of Rostock , Greifswald and Helmstedt . In the summer semester of 1645 he came to the University of Leipzig, where he received his bachelor's degree on November 15, 1645 and the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences on January 29, 1646. He continued his studies in Wittenberg and in 1650 in Jena ("Docendo & Disputando" - he taught and disputed).

Interior of the church

In 1652 he received a call as vice-principal of the school in Uelzen, which he turned down, and instead went to Rinteln. There he immediately became the deputy of the preacher and Primarius Liborius Haremann. When he died in 1658, he became second preacher and in 1666 he took over a full professorship in history at the University of Rinteln . Pastor Adolph Wilhelm Rottmann also worked at the market church in Rinteln at this time . On May 5, 1653 Daniel Wilhelmi married Anna Margaretha, daughter of Christian Römlings, bailiff and customs officer at Hitzacker . He fathered nine children with her, but only their son Christian Albrecht, a law student in Jena, and two daughters reached their "manageable years". The daughter Engel Elisabeth was married to David Pestel JVC, a son of David Pestel JVD & Prof. prim. The other daughter Katharine Margarethea (1654–1778) was married to Professor Medicus Konrad Johrenius.

Rinteln St. Nikolai Church, tombstone for city preacher Daniel Wilhelmi

After his wife died in 1684, Wilhelmi married Anna Katharine, née Pesteln, widowed Lohmeyer, for the second time in 1687. Her husband Philipp Lohmeier, professor of physics and metaphysics in Rinteln, died on September 24, 1680. With his second wife he became the father of the daughter Klare Margarethe, later the wife of the preacher Joh. Geo. Happel zu Amönau, later Münchhausen. Magister Wilhelmi, preacher in St. Nicolai, died on November 10, 1689 at the age of 67. Wilhelmi was buried behind the altar in the St. Nicolai Church in Rinteln , where the grave was later prepared for his successor. The following inscription can be read on his body stone:

Tegit hic Lapis exuvias viri plurimum reverendi; & Nobilissimi M. Danielis Wilhelmi, Pastoris Ecclesiae Lutheranae Rinteliensis per XXXVII. Historiarum vero per XXIII. Annos Professoris clarissimi Natus is eft Ultzae Lüneburg. On. MDCXXIII. d. VI. Febr. & Exacto fere sexagesimo septimo aetatis anno Servatori suo animam reddidit. d. Nov. X An. MDCLXXXIX.

This stone covers the remains of the extremely venerable and noble Magister Daniel Wilhelmi, the shepherd of the Lutheran Church of Rinteln for 37 years, but the famous history professor for 23 years. He was born in Uelzen, Lüneburg in 1623 on February 6th and after almost 67 years of age he gave his savior his soul back on November 10th in 1689.

Confessor in witch trials

Magister Wilhelmi, preacher in St. Nicolai, was like his colleague Pastor Adolph Wilhelm Rottmann confessor of defendants in witch trials in Rinteln, z. B. in the lawsuit against Adelheid Sieveking and Lucie Kunschopper . Against Lucie Kunschopper, b. Hagemann, widow of the Kunschopper, had brought the embarrassing public prosecutor in Rinteln on September 4, 1668 charges of sorcery.

On behalf of the Embarrassing Neck Court, Magister Daniel Wilhelmi visited the accused of the witch trials with the order to obtain a confession. Magister Wilhelmi could boast of always getting a confession, especially from defendants who had previously withstood torture. Magister Wilhelmi was soon able to report to the court that Lucie Kunschopper had made a confession to him. But when the defendant revoked this confession, the lawyers at Rinteln University ordered the ordeal. The process could not be completed. is because Lucie Kunschopper died in prison in 1669 after repeated torture without a confession.

Shortly after the witch persecution ended in 1654, Wilhelmi succeeded in 1655 in raising his salary at the city council, regardless of the completely overindebted city treasury.

Works

  • Funeral sermon for death Landgr. Wilhelm VI. from Hessen from Matth. XXII, 29.30. (in his honorary memory). 1663
  • Wonderful sky-blue mirror with Weyl inside. William VI. L. z. H. how an angel of God is represented and made available, from divine holy scripture, which H. Fathers, also all kinds of old and new scribblers. Rint. 1664.12.
  • Funeral sermon on the death of Dr. and Prof. Theol. Superint. Joh. Henichii about 2 Tim. IV.7.8. Rint. 1671.4.
  • Alleluia! or encouragement to praise and remember God's most indebted duty; as Landgrave Hedwig Sophia ceded the government to her son L. Carolo I; Sermon at the government = resignation of Landgravine Hedwig Sophia , a sermon from 1. Reg. 1. and 1. Chron. XXX, 20.22 1677.4.
  • The noble art of dying in bliss and becoming immortal, through the symbolic words: I believe a forgiveness of sins, resurrection of the flesh and an eternal life. at the funeral superint. Joh. Otto Henkel's SS Theol.D. u. Prof. Rint. 1683.4
  • Funeral sermon on the death of Borrie Phil. Von Münchhausen Rint. 1683.4.
  • Funeral sermon on the death of Daniel Jacob Boden, preacher to St. Nicolai in Verden about 2 Cor. IV.17. Rinteln 1687.4
  • Funeral sermon to Stefan Pestel, son of Prof. Dr. David Pestel, d. Feb. 3, 1667. Guardian. Rinteln.

literature

  • Minutes of the Council 1655
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day. Barmeier, Göttingen, 1781, vol. 17 pp. 84–86 ( online )
  • Catalogus professorum Rinteliensium. The professors of the University of Rinteln and the academic high school in Stadthagen: 1610–1810 , arr . by Willy Hansel, Rinteln, 1971

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Konrad Paulus, messages from old Hessen-Schaumburg superintendents, churches and the dabey from the time of the Reformation up to now standing and standing preachers , Rinteln 1786, p. 275, p. 300-303
  2. ↑ Matr. UL jR II, 498
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder, basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day . Volume 8, Kassel 1788, p. 61
  4. ^ D. Karl Wilhelm Justi (editor), Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder's basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to 1806 . 17th volume (Werner-Zwilling). Marburg, 1819, pp. (84-) 86.
  5. ↑ Johann Konrad Paulus, messages from old Hessen-Schaumburg superintendents, churches and the dabey from the time of the Reformation up to now standing and standing preachers , Rinteln 1786, p. 275, p. 300-303
  6. ^ Stefan Meyer, Adelheid Sieveking (1600-1654). A death at the stake. In: Geschichte Schaumburger Women , 2000, pp. 222–232
  7. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Wolf, History of the Witch Trials , Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft Hamburg, 1995, p. 722
  8. ↑ Cornelia Kurth, The witch hunt in Rinteln
  9. ↑ Karin Gerhardt-Lorenz, Lucie Kunschopper - 1668 accused as a witch
  10. ^ Council minutes 1655 (information from Dr. Stefan Meyer).
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelmi, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelzen
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1689
Place of death Rinteln