Georgius Hornius

Georgius Hornius , also Georg Horn (* 1620 in Kemnath , Upper Palatinate, † November 10, 1670 in Leiden ), was a German historian, geographer, theologian and professor.

Life

Due to the Bohemian Wars , Horn spent his youth in Brandenburg lands. He also lived temporarily in Creußen , Neustadt am Kulm , Nuremberg and on the Plassenburg in Kulmbach . A long trip to England is also recorded. As a professor he lived in Harderwijk and Leiden . Nevertheless, in a certain way he remained tied to his homeland. In memory of his origins in the northern Upper Palatinate, he wrote about the Rauhen Kulm in his work Orbis Politicus in 1667 : In the center of Germany it stands, towering over all the mountains far and wide, in a sense a wonder of the world and drives in relation to the Kleiner Kulm and Rauhen Kulm continues that they only find their equals in Arabia, Sinai and Horeb .

At the college in Leiden he was an acquaintance of Cornelius Tollius .

Fonts (selection)

Georgi Horni orbis politicus, imperiorum, regnorum, principatuum rerumpublicarum. 1668
Historia Philosophica. 1655
Kerkelycke historie, van de scheppinge des werelts, tot 't jaer des Heeren. 1666
Arca Noae, sive Historia imperiorum et regnorum ̀condito orbe ad nostra tempora. Officina Hackiana, Leiden 1666
Description exacte de l'Univers: ou l'ancienne geography sacrée et profane . Pierre de Hondt, Haag 1741 ( digitized version )

literature

Schmitz-Aurbach: Horn, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 137 f.
Erich Wenneker: Horn, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 732-733.

Individual evidence

↑ Jacob Christof Iselin , Johannes Buxtorf, Jakob Christoph Beck : Newly augmented historical and geographical general Lexicon ... , Volume 4, 1743, p. 205 ( digitized version )
^ Johann Nicolaus Apel : The rough Kulm and its surroundings together with a history and topography of Neustadt an den Kulmen in the Main district. Foreword pp. XXI - XXIV, Bayreuth 1811.

personal data
SURNAME	Hornius, Georgius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Horn, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, geographer, theologian and professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1620
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kemnath , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1670
Place of death	Suffer

[1] Jacob Christof Iselin , Johannes Buxtorf, Jakob Christoph Beck : Newly augmented historical and geographical general Lexicon ... , Volume 4, 1743, p. 205 ( digitized version )

[2] Johann Nicolaus Apel : The rough Kulm and its surroundings together with a history and topography of Neustadt an den Kulmen in the Main district. Foreword pp. XXI - XXIV, Bayreuth 1811.