Georg Horn (historiographer)

Georg Horn (born December 22, 1542 in Hammelburg , † September 24, 1603 in Hammelburg ) was a Protestant pastor and historian .

Life

Georg Horn was born as the son of Hans Horn, a citizen of Hammelburg, and his wife Margarethe, b. Stockert, born. From the age of five he attended the Hammelburg Council School, and later the Hammelburg Latin School . From 1558 to 1560 he attended the Latin school in Naumburg, where he was tutor and educator of the children of the former Hammelburg preacher Friedrich Bachofen. In 1561 Georg Horn enrolled at the University of Jena after receiving a scholarship from the city of Hammelburg . On June 4, 1567 Horn was appointed by the city council as a predicant . He married Anna Wolfarth from Münnerstadt on January 20, 1568 . As a result of the recatholic efforts , Prince Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach released him from his office on September 8, 1603.

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• History of the beginning of the progress and maintenance of the reformed preaching camp of Augsburg confession in the Christian community of Hammelburg. - manuscript 1585.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Horn in the bibliographic database WorldCat

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• Johannes Merz : Georg Horn (1542–1603) and his Historia about the Reformation in Hammelburg. Studies on the life, work and environment of the author and edition of the Historia . Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 1992.
• Heinrich Ullrich: Hammelburg, pictures from the history of an ancient Franconian settlement. Hammelburg 1956.