Hans Engelbrecht (preacher)

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Hans Engelbrecht (born April 8 or 11, 1599 in Braunschweig ; † February 20, 1642 there ), also called Johannes , was a cloth maker, mystic and preacher .

Life

Born as the son of the tailor Jürgen Engelbrecht, who obtained citizenship in Braunschweig , he grew up without any special education. He began an apprenticeship as a cloth maker and, as a young man living in deep gloom, sought consolation in church attendance. After an illness in 1622, he began to pursue visionary ideas. According to his alleged "True Face and Story from Heaven and Hell" , he claims to have risen from the dead and stayed in heaven and hell for a while.

Engelbrecht told this to his grandmother, who then passed on his alleged experiences. So in 1625 the work "True Face and Story of Heaven and Hell" was created , in which his experiences and feelings in heaven and in hell are described. The biography experienced many new editions.

Engelbrecht wrote in it:

“... he had floated with Christ and the angels of God to just below heaven, and took the sun in one hand and the moon in the other, and counted the stars in heaven.

Regardless of that, his comparisons were sometimes quite naive - so he compared z. B. Heaven with a delicious wine soup, of which one has only tasted a few drops on earth, and which one could then eat with spoons - and the heavenly music was as far above earthly music as a beautiful concert over the jelly of a bagpipe, or by bagging a night watchman's horn. "

- quoted from Karl Philipp Moritz : " Anton Reiser , a psychological novel"

Engelbrecht came to Schleswig on his preaching hikes.

Works

  • The pious Braunschweig cloth maker, Hans Engelbrechts, lived through many internal and external suffering: or: his wonderful job and thoughtful speeches ...
  • The Protestant raised from death: or The simple penitential preacher Hans Engelbrechts von Braunschweig writings; with a general preface.
  • Hans Engelbrechts von Braunschweig's wonderful job and life course: extracted from his writings printed in the previous Saeculo ... With an appendix: writings drawn from a holy beggar from Tauleri.
  • The German Swedenburg : or: Hans Engelbrecht's extraordinary prospects into eternity; along with your strange life and strange writings; as a counterpart to all of Swedenburg's works. Amsterdam: at the expense of good friends, 1783

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  ENGELBRECHT, Hans. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1512.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelbrecht, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journeyman draper, preacher and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH April 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1642
Place of death Braunschweig