Erdmann Neumeister

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Erdmann Neumeister 1719

Erdmann Neumeister (* 12. May 1671 in Uichteritz ; † 18th August 1756 in Hamburg ) was a German church hymn writer , poeticists and theologian of the Baroque period .

Life

Neumeister was the son of the schoolmaster, organist and administrator Johann Neumeister and Margaretha born from Wurzbach . Francke from Weida . After receiving a scholarship-like city office, he attended the Pforta state school from April 1686 to January 1691 . From the spring of 1691 he studied Protestant theology and poetics in Leipzig . On February 25, 1694, new master Baccalaureus Artium and master's degree at the same time . In 1695 he submitted his habilitation thesis “De poetis germanicis” and became a lecturer in poetry. On the occasion of a cure in Bibra , the local pastor Büttner accepted him as a substitute in 1696 . From 1697 Neumeister worked as a Bibra pastor and adjunct of the Eckartsberg superintendent; initially even under great material difficulties. He married Johanna Elisabeth Meister on November 24, 1697 in Weißenfels , a daughter of the ducal master chef Christoph Meister. In 1704 he succeeded in being employed as court deacon in Weißenfels at the court there. Here he came into contact with the composer Joh. Philipp Krieger . As early as 1706, he became senior court preacher, consistorial councilor and superintendent in Sorau in Niederlausitz when he accompanied Anna Maria von Sachsen-Weißenfels after her marriage to Erdmann II von Promnitz . His lifelong theological struggle against pietism began there . In Sorau he had close contact with Georg Philipp Telemann . Since his count's gentlemen turned more and more pietistic views, Neumeister left Sorau in strife and successfully applied in Hamburg. From 1715 until his death in 1756 he was the main pastor at the Jakobikirche in Hamburg . His advocacy to make Johann Sebastian Bach an organist was not heard in the church council in 1720. In 1747 he gave his sermon for the 50th anniversary of the office. Neumeister died at the age of 85 and almost blind on August 18, 1756. Like many others, his grave in the church was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944, only a larger-than-life oil painting portraying him behind the pulpit remained.

Act

Painting in St. Jacobi, Hamburg

Neumeister wrote numerous cantata texts and introduced recitatives and arias for the first time in this genre, following the example of opera . A total of five of his groundbreaking texts were set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1711 and 1714 ( Even as the rain and snow fall from the sky , BWV 18, Now come, the Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 , BWV 24, BWV 28 and Whoever loves me will keep my word, BWV 59 ). Other composers who set his libretti to music were Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , Johann Philipp Krieger and Georg Philipp Telemann . Neumeister's literary work also includes numerous edification writings as well as youth poems of a moral-satirical nature. Meusels Lexikon, Vol. 2 (1810), pp. 81-98 lists nearly 200 Neumeister publications.

At the age of 24, in 1695, under the title De Poetis Germanicis, he wrote a spirited, sharply critical overview of all of German baroque literature of the time . It was only after Günter Merwald's translation into German in 1978 that these mocking-critical statements, which surprisingly contradict the generally accepted Baroque canon, became accessible to a wide audience. 1707 he published a resulting already in Leipzig poetological work entitled The very latest way to pure and gallant poetry to go , he received from his friend Christian Friedrich Hunold did issue because the secular love poems contained in it could not reconcile his youth with his clergy .

Family ties

Erdmann Neumeister had various family connections to theologians and humanities scholars of his time:

Erdmann Gotthold as the eldest son became superintendent in Eckartsberga , Erdmann Gottlieb Neumeister had become a deacon at the Jakobikirche in Hamburg in 1739 , but died in 1742, his brother Erdmann Gottwert followed him in 1742 to the office of deacon.

Ancestors as ancestral line , source: Francke family tables, 6th edition 1999, panel X

  • 1. Erdmann Neumeister
  • 2. Johann Neumeister April 14, 1642 Wurzbach - April 26, 1716 Uichteritz
  • 3. Margarete Francke May 2, 1637 Weida - December 1, 1732 Uichteritz.
  • 4. Jacob Neumeister. Wine merchant from Wurzbach
  • 6. Friedrich Francke March 30, 1611 Weida - 1638 Weida, white baker
  • 7. Sara Blauschmied.
  • 12. Bartholomäus Francke 1576 Weida - 23 January 1651 Markersdorf, pastor
  • 13. Margaretha Juditha Wagner * 29. November 1584 Burkersdorf
  • 24. Bartholomäus Francke 1546 Weida - 1609 Weida, city judge
  • 26. (Pastor) Wagner.
  • 48.Bartholomäus I. Francke * approx. 1490 - 1553 Weida, innkeeper
  • 49. Margarethe.

Remembrance day

August 18 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

Works (selection)

  • Valediction work on JG Carlowitz, Schulpforta 1691, archive a. Library of the Pforta State School
  • De Poetis Germanicis hujus seculi . Reprint d. Edition v. 1695 with German translation by Günter Merwald, ed. Franz Heiduk . Bern: Francke 1978
  • M. Erdmanns Neumeister's Abgenöthigte Defensions-Schrifft / against L. Joh. Georgii Albini Schmäh-Schrifft / which he appends to his absurd and written Disputationi Inaugurali irraisonnabel, alber and inconsistent Cölln 1695 [1]
  • The plaintive Zion on the white rock over the too early ... death case of ... Mr. Johann Adolphen / Hertziehenden zu Sachsen ... / On the day of mourning of ... funeral / July 25th, An. 1697 ... designed by Erdmann Neumeister / PS in Biebra. Leipzig: Fleischer, 1697. [2]
  • Praise poems of the so-called farmer dog / or Fürstl. Leib-Hundes zu Weissenfels: Morally presented with all kinds of moral lessons and pleasant gallantries / by a friend of virtue and enemy of vice, no year, around 1700 [3]
  • Poetic fruits of the lips in spiritual arias, over all Sundays, festivals and apostles [...] days in the Hochfürstl. Saxon. SchlossCapelle zu Weissenfels to the Kirchen.Music. Bibra 1700 [4]
  • Access to the mercy seat of Jesus Christ . Weißenfels 1703
  • Sacred cantatas . 1705 [5]
  • Words of the Wise , Weißenfels 1707
  • The very latest way of arriving at pure and gallant poetry, ed. Christian Friedrich Hunold. Hamburg 1707 etc. [6]
  • The Priestly Lips in Preservation of Doctrine , Leipzig and Görlitz 1714
  • Five-fold church devotions, consisting of… arias, cantatas and odes . Leipzig 1717
  • Holy Sundays = work , Leipzig 1717
  • Praefat. in front of Mr. D. Joh. Frid. Mayers, PP and Past ad D. Jacob Hainb. Hamburg Sabbath , Hamburg 1717
  • Praef. before the angelic preach. in Londen, Thomae Brooks Tract. Golden apples in front of young men and virgins, as well as an honorary crown in front of men and matrons, or: what a bliss it is when one becomes pious at times, and for a special honor when one is an old disciple of Christ . Hamburg 1717
  • First Protestant sea blessing in Hamburg , Weißenfels and Hamburg in 1718
  • New spiritual poems for every Sunday and feast day, 2 parts , Eisenach 1718
  • Holy week work, 4 parts , Hamburg 1718 & 1719
  • Spiritual library , Hamburg 1719
  • Sermons from new people , Hamburg 1719
  • Communion book , Weißenfels 1719
  • Epistolic gleaning of the ordin. Epistle sermons , Hamburg 1720
  • Conc. Poenit. , Hamburg 1720
  • Praef. in front of Mr. M. Phil. Frid. Hanens, Meckl. Life and Thats Ignatii Lojolae, famous donors of the Jesuit order , Rost (ock?) And Neu-Brandenburg 1721
  • Brief proof that the current purification being with the so-called Reformed or Calvinists runs straight against the whole catechismo: along with an appendix in which the purification points are examined. With approval and license from CC Ministeriee , Hamburg 1721
  • Christian lessons for the youth, such as the H. Advent season, the H. Christ festival and the New Year to be celebrated by God , Hamburg 1727 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • The seeker of God, And Hertz who lives from it; In morning and evening blessings, penance, confession and communion prayers, and other devotions. Hamburg: Felginer 1730 ( digitized version )
  • Praef. before Mr. Joh. Langemachs, past Pred. in Neustadt, in Holstein, catechism school , Hamburg
  • Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs . 1755
  • Hern. Erdmann Neumeisters, Pastoris to St. Jacobi in Hamburg, raising holy hands to God, that is, all sorts of prayers for the devout practice of true Christianity, from his witty prayer books compiled by a lover of the Neumeisterischen Schrifften , Hamburg 1756

Literature (selection)

  • Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol. 3, pp. 58–65 ( online )
  • Max von Waldberg :  Neumeister, Erdmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 543-548.
  • Max von Waldberg: "Erdmann Neumeister. An attempt at a characteristic", in: Germanisch-Romansische monthly 2 (1910), pp. 115–123
  • Henrike Rucker (Ed.): Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1756). Pioneer of the Protestant church cantata. Weimar: Hain-Verlag, undated (Weißenfelser Kulturtradionen 2). ISBN 3-930215-51-9
  • Ute-Maria Viswanathan: The poetics of Erdmann Neumeister and their relationship to the baroque and gallant poetry. Diss. Ann Arbor 1989
  • Wolfgang Miersemann:  Neumeister, Erdmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 170 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Uwe Riedel: Erdmann Neumeister, Biographical Mosaic , self-published [7] , 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030166-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erdmann Neumeister in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

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personal data
SURNAME Neumeister, Erdmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Uichteritz
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1756
Place of death Hamburg