Georg Paul Hönn
Georg Paul Hönn (born June 12, 1662 in Nuremberg ; † March 21, 1747 in Coburg ) was a German lawyer , archivist and writer .
Life
Hönn's ancestors were evangelical refugees who had fled to Protestant Nuremberg. Georg Paul Hönn was born here in 1662, but then grew up in Coburg after his father, Paul Hönn, had become a secret councilor and consistorial president.
After Hönn had pursued his legal studies from 1678 to 1684 in Altdorf, Groningen as well as in the Netherlands , England , France and Italy, he did his doctorate in Altdorf. A short time later he became "Hofadvocat" (1687) and then archivist (1688) in Coburg .
Hönn continued his career as an administrative officer: in 1694 he became a police adviser, in 1697 a senior guardianship councilor, secret secretary and a joint archivist from the Electorate and Princely Henneberg. In 1705, again in Coburg, he received a council and official position and at the same time the scholarchate of the Castmirianum high school . Due to age, he retired from the service in 1739, eight years later he died in Coburg.
Journalistic and social work
Hönn was also active as a writer. In addition to legal work, he published genealogical, geographical and historical works. He used the files of the Coburg archive available to him. His writings include the Sachsen-Coburgische Historia in two volumes (1700) and the Topographical Lexicon Franconia (1747). His most successful book was the Fraud Encyclopedia , first published in 1721 , which appeared in four editions and several reprints. Hönn can be assigned to the early Enlightenment and Pietism . However, contemporary prejudices become clear in some passages of his works, for example in the lexicon entries about " Jews " and " Gypsies ".
As the person known to him August Hermann Francke in Halle an der Saale founded Hönn in Meiningen and Coburg orphanages .
literature
- Franck, Jakob, “Hönn, Georg Paul” in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 13 (1881), pp. 72–74, online at: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz32871.html .
Web links
- Works by Georg Paul Hönn at Zeno.org .
- Frey, Edmund: Coburg from the “Dintenfas”: Georg Paul Hönn (1662–1747) between Pietism and Enlightenment, http://www.landesbibliothek-coburg.de/hoenn.htm , accessed on December 1, 2015.
- Literature by and about Georg Paul Hönn in the catalog of the German National Library .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Frey, Edmund: Coburg from the "Dintenfas": Georg Paul Hönn (1662–1747) between Pietism and the Enlightenment, archived copy ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 1, 2015.
- ↑ Franck, Jakob, "Hönn, Georg Paul" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 13 (1881), pp. 72–74, http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz32871.html .
- ↑ Georg Paul Hoenn: Fraud Lexicon, in which most of the deceiters in all states, in addition to the means against the good part [...]. Coburg 1721; later editions there at least 1724 and 1761; Reprints, ed. and with an afterword by Henri Herbedé, Munich 1977, and with an afterword by Günter Grundke, Leipzig 1981.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hönn, Georg Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | GPH; Hönn, GP; Hönn, George Paul; Hönn, Georgius Paulus; Listen to Ehnes, Georg Paul; Hones on Ehnes, Georg Paul; Hönn, Paul; Hönn, Paulus; Hoenn, Georg Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer; German archivist; German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1662 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1747 |
| Place of death | Coburg |