Leverius Potter

Hebelius (Haebele) Potter (* 1768 in Dokkum , Fryslån Province , Netherlands ; † April 18, 1824 Surabaya , Java , then Dutch East Indies , now: Indonesia ) was a Frisian preacher and travel writer .

Life

Potter went into voluntary internal exile in 1795 because of the Jacobean activities in North West Friesland. He was also confronted with acts of violence abroad. On his first trip to South Africa , he took part in a sea battle between English and French or Dutch ships. He was taken to Plymouth and later to London as a prisoner of war . There he went to work for the Dutch community in 1806. Back in the Netherlands he became assistant preacher in Amsterdam in 1807 .

From June 11, 1810 to 1818, Potter was pastor in Hanau . It is possible that he was already in Hanau in 1809. On October 30, 1813, the day of the Battle of Hanau, he had to hide from the French troops.

After 1818 Potter moved to the Dutch East Indies, where he died in 1824. His wife, A. Visscher, died on February 10, 1856 and is buried in Probolingo .

Works

• Lotgevallen En Ontmoelingen Op Eene Mislukte Reize Naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop in de Jaaren 1804, 1805 En 1806 In: Brieven Aan Eenen Vriend, Volumes 1-2
• Wandelingen en small reizen door sommige Gedeelten van het vaderland, deel I en II , AB Saakes, Amsterdam 1808–1809
• The contemplative journey of Hebelius Potter through the area of ​​the Black Brack in 1808: The dike
• Journey through a large part of South Holland in 1807/1808 , TF Erdmann, Leipzig 1810
• Hebelius Potter's journey through the old and new eastern provinces of the Kingdom of Holland to the Duchy of Oldenburg , written in 1808 , Vienna 1811
• Reize van Amsterdam naar Hanau, door een groot Gedeelte van Duitschland, gedaan in the jare 1810
• Wandelingen en small irritants in the omtrek van Hanau, Frankfort en others voorname Gedeelten van Duitschland by H.Potter , AB Saakes 1811
• Vruchten der eenzaamheid , Groningen 1819 and the following: 4 parts, including among other things: Reizen door de Wetterau en long the Lahnstroom ; Verhaal van det voorgevallene in en bij Hanau, in de maanden October and November 1813; Amsterdam 1814

literature

• Publisher: Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau
  • Karl Heiler: Walks around the city of Hanau 1810. In: Hanauisches Magazin. Monthly sheets for local history. 9 (7/8), 1930. pp. 81-91.
  • Karl Heiler: The Lamboy Festival 1810. In: Hanauisches Magazin. Monthly sheets for local history. 12 (1), 1933. pp. 1-8.
  • Karl Heiler: The journey of the pastor Hebelius Potter from the Dutch community in Hanau from Friedberg to Hanau 1810. In: Hanauisches Magazin. Monthly sheets for local history. 16 (7/8), 1937. pp. 56-58.
  • Karl Heiler (translator), edited by Peter Jüngling and David Liuzzo: With Hebelius Potter around old Hanau - A journey back in time to the year 1810. Hanauer Historische Hefte 1, 2010, ISBN 978-3-935395-13-2 .
• Ellen Kroll: The 'voluntary' exile of Hebelius Potter. In: De Achttiende Eeuw 38 (2), 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hebelius Potter in the catalog of the German National Library