Gotthard Heidegger
Gotthard Heidegger (born August 5, 1666 in Stein am Rhein ; † May 22, 1711 in Zurich , reformed , resident in Zurich) was a Swiss theologian and author of satirical writings, who achieved national fame in 1698 with his pamphlet against the novels Mythoscopia Romantica .
Life
Already the father, Johann Conrad Heidegger († 1679), was a clergyman, the mother Ursula Zeller came from the clergy family from Wildberg . Johann Heinrich Heidegger was a second cousin, with which Gotthard Heidegger is also related to his son, the theater director Johann Jacob Heidegger , who later became famous in London .
His school education took place in Zurich's Alumnat, the scholarship facility that he was later to manage himself, and his theology studies followed on site. In 1688 he married Rosina Zollikofer from St. Gallen. In 1689 he took up his first position as pastor in Langrickenbach , but in the same year he moved to St. Margrethen . In 1696, in response to the controversy that he triggered against the Capuchin Father Rudolf Gasser with his pamphlet Zuchtrute , he asked for a transfer that brought him to Rorbas . In 1705 he was elected inspector of the alumnate in Zurich, he held this position until his death in 1711.
A - critical - interest in fashionable fonts can be traced back to the 1690s. From St. Margrethen, Heidegger was in contact with a St. Gallen group of lovers of current belles lettres - the merchants Paul Schlumpf and Edmund Witz were among the initiators. In 1692 Heidegger tried himself under the pseudonym Winckelriedt as a satirical author with Apollo Auricomus, a defensive pamphlet for redheads. National fame he gained through his book Mythoscopia Romantica: or Discourse of the so-called novel , a large-scale invective against the novel as a genre to which Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling answered yet 1,702th Heidegger gained academic respect from 1708 with the new edition of the Acerra philologica and from 1710 as editor of the political contemporary history journal Mercurius Historicus .
The posthumous edition of his writings selected by Johann Jakob Bodmer in 1732 testifies to the importance of Heidegger .
An estate of letters (mainly copies) is in the Zurich Central Library MsS 337, MsF 197, MsD 163, MsH 372/73, MsH 337.
One portrait is preserved among Swiss portraits in the graphic collection of the central library in Zurich.
Works
- Mythoscopia Romantica: or Discours from the so-called novels. D. Gessner, Zurich 1698. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive )
literature
- Ursula Hitzig: Gotthard Heidegger, 1666–1711. PG Keller, Winterthur 1954 (dissertation University of Zurich).
- Walter Ernst Schäfer: Heidegger, Gotthard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Ursula Villiger: Heidegger, Gotthard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 243 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gotthard Heidegger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling: Conversation on Gotthard Heidegger's Mythoscopia Romantica. New interviews third month. Lutzen, 1702, pp. 258-268.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heidegger, Gotthard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winckelriedt; Hilarius Stauppizius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Reformed theologian and author of satirical-critical writings |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1666 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stone at the Rhein |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1711 |
| Place of death | Zurich |