Friedrich von Helbach
Friedrich von Helbach , also: Fridericus Helbachius Eckhartusanus (born March 27, 1568 in Eckartshausen , † 1638 in Kirn ) was a German theologian , teacher, head of school, oenologist , alchemist and writer .
Life
Friedrich Helbach was born in Eckartshausen in 1568 as the son of Wendelin von Helbach († 1588), who had taken over a Lutheran pastor there in 1558 . The family came from the old Thuringian noble family Hellbach , but had already given up their nobility title at the beginning of the 16th century .
After the death of his father in 1589, he began studying theology at the Philipps University of Marburg . But Helbach was also "dedicated to the Studio Medicinae von Jugent auff" and also dealt with various scientific issues. One of his professors in Marburg was Rudolf Goclenius the Elder . Helbach's disputation on star flicker from 1591 was published in Goclenius Disputationes Physicae . In Marburg, Helbach also made the acquaintance of Eberhard von Gemmingen and his brother Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg , to whom he later dedicated his most famous work, the Oenographia .
In 1593 he took over a position as head of the Latin school in the wild and Rhine Counts of Kirn , where he married shortly afterwards. During this time he wrote a book on school breeding , but it was not published until 1612. In 1596, the convinced Lutheran gave up teaching in favor of a pastorate in Veitsrodt . A funeral song from Helbach on Reichard von Pfalz-Simmern has come down to us from 1598 .
His activity in Veitsrodt ends at the latest in 1602. He spends the year "through no fault of his own " in Idar-Oberstein , where he does research. His medical-alchemical investigations and experiments were sponsored and personally supported by the local sovereign, Philipp Franz von Daun-Falkenstein .
In the following year Helbach becomes pastor of Wickenrodt and thus returns to the Wild and Rhine County. From 1625 to 1629 he was parish priest in Wendelsheim . The Lutheran pastoral office was however dissolved in 1629 and replaced by a Catholic one, which is probably u. a. can be traced back to the influence of the Catholic Spaniards, who had occupied large parts of the Electoral Palatinate since 1623 . In 1638 he died in Kirn.
effect
His book Oenographia from 1605 is one of the first German-language books on wine production and became a standard work in the 17th century. Among other things, he mentions methods that seem bizarre today, such as sweetening and fining wine with lead sugar , which, as we know today, can lead to lead poisoning (so-called saturnism) in consumers .
Even in his day, Magister Helbach was considered a universal scholar. The anagram reproduced under his engraving in his Latin name Fridericus Helbachius reads Hic charus re fidelibus (German: "This is really dear to the faithful"). The further inscription praises him as a “famous poet” and “pious theologian”.
Work (selection)
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Rudolf Goclenius , Friedrich von Helbach: Altera De causa scintillationis stellarum quarundam, explicans propositionem 56 perspectivae communis, stellas quasdam ex reflexione solarium ad ipsas apparenter scintillare. Altera De stellarum viribus . Egenolff, 1591.
- Rudolf Goclenius : From the cause of star flickering - in an explanation of theorem 56 of the general doctrine of vision and about its (scil. The stars) influence, what the non-Latins call "influence" . In: Disputations on natural science . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3660-6 , p. 134–140 (Latin: Altera De causa scintillationis stellarum quarundam, ... translated by Hans Günter Zeckl).
- Friedrich von Helbach: Oenographia, wine cellar or art book on wine, that is: detailed and actual description of the noble gift of God, the wine, his nature, creativity and virtue ... / collected from many famous scribes and described too well by all art lovers in three books Fridericum Helbachium Eckhartshusanum . Frankfurt am Mayn, Peter Kopffen 1604 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Friedrich von Helbach: Prize song on the dear fatherland . 1605.
- Friedrich von Helbach: "Olivetum, that is an art book: It shows a thorough and detailed report on how one can extract and make the two most precious pieces in Artzney, as oil and salt, according to alchemical art from all earth plants, metals and other natural things … “ Peter Kopffen, Frankfurt am Mayn 1605 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Friedrich von Helbach: Newe SchulZucht: adorned with very beautiful table prayer and [and] many useful teachings and [and] memories ... Sampt a sermon about the fourth commandment, inciting the youth to fear God . Hofmann, 1612.
As translator:
- Bartholomaeus of Saligniaco: Tear to H. grave and pilgrimage to the promised land . Grosse, 1612 (Latin: Itinerarium Hierosolomitanum . Translated by Friedrich von Helbach).
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich von Helbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Diehl: Reformation book of the Protestant parishes of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . 1917.
- ^ Friedrich von Helbach: Oenographia . Frankfurt am Mayn, Peter Kopffen 1604 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- ^ Rudolf Goclenius , Friedrich von Helbach: Altera De causa scintillationis stellarum quarundam, explicans propositionem 56 perspectivae communis, stellas quasdam ex reflexione solarium ad ipsas apparenter scintillare. Altera De stellarum viribus . Egenolff, 1591.
- ↑ Evangelical parish Wendelsheim
- ↑ M. Stoeppler: Hazardous Metals in the Environment . Elsevier, 1992, ISBN 0-08-087560-2 , pp. 60 ff .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helbach, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckhartusanus, Fridericus Helbachius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, oenologist, alchemist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1568 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eckartshausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1638 |
| Place of death | Kirn |