Heini Havreki

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Heini Jonssøn Havregster , Danish: Heine Johnsen Havreke , Faroese: Heini Jónsson , called Havreki "Heini der Schiffwüchige" (* 1514 (?) In Bergen , Norway ; † 1576 in Radøy ) was a Norwegian and Faroese pastor.

In 1541 he was consecrated as the first Protestant pastor in Nes (Eysturoy) after the Reformation in the Faroe Islands (1538/39) . 1557–1566 he was the first provost of the Faroe Islands after the diocese of Faroe Islands was laid down and fell to Bergen.

The Faroese sea hero Magnus Heinason is a son of Heini Havreki. Many of today's Faroese look back on a descent from him.

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Heini Havreki was allegedly the son of the Icelandic Catholic pastor Jon Haraldson (1480−?), Who settled in Bergen. Against this theory speaks that Heini is not an Icelandic, but rather a Dutch or German first name.

He was married to Herborg from Húsavík († 1542). They had the son Jógvan Heinason (1541-1602, later Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands) and the daughter Herborg (* 1542). When his wife Herborg died, he married the Norwegian Gyri Arnbjørnsdatter around 1545, with whom he had the son Magnus Heinason (1545–1589), who is still revered as a national hero in the Faroe Islands.

It is said that the young theology student Heini Havreki from Bergen wanted to go on a rowing boat trip with six other fellow students. Then a storm came up. They were drifting out to sea. Soon the provisions ran out. The men were noticeably worse off. On the seventh night they reached Húsavík on the island of Sandoy , which is part of the Faroe Islands. With the last of his strength, Heini dragged his comrades ashore. They were found at dawn by a young woman named Herborg, who set up a stable for them as accommodation. One of the men died. The other five took the first ship back to Norway. But Heini stayed with Herborg on the Faroe Islands.

There are also other stories circulating that Heini was stranded in Nes on Eysturoy or on the North Islands . The people of Nes say that he was the only survivor on board and made a vow to build a church at the place of his salvation and henceforth to serve God. His comrades are said to have not survived the shipwreck and are buried in Nes. The story is said to have taken place in 1530. He is said to have built the old church of Nes at the nearest convenient location. He got the wood for this from relatives in Norway.

Perhaps he came from Bergen on a merchant ship as normal, and the story of the shipwrecked man who found his bride is just a fairy tale. There is a receipt for a delivery of wood from August 2, 1533, where he is mentioned as the parish priest of the island of Streymoy. In 1534 he became an assistant (famulus) of the last Catholic bishop Ámundur Ólavsson in Kirkjubøur . In 1538 he became a priest for Eysturoy without having his official seat there.

As the bishop's assistant, Heini Havreki traveled all over the Faroe Islands and spread the word of the Reformation in other countries. When it reached the Faroe Islands via Bergen in 1538, Bishop Ámundur was deposed by the Norwegian king in 1539.

On Ólavsøka (July 29th) 1541, Heini Havreki was ordained as Protestant pastor of Eysturoy by the new Lutheran superintendent Jens Riber . The Church of Nes was the first Protestant church in the country. The community still exists today, see Fríðrikskirkjan .

Heini Havreki was later appointed the bishop's deputy. In 1557 the diocese of Faroe Islands fell to the diocese of Bergen and the Faroe Islands were downgraded to a provost's office in próstagarður in Oyndarfjørður on Eysturoy. After Riber left for Stavanger, Heini Havreki was the first Faroese provost from 1558 to head the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the Faroe Islands for the following eight years. It was not until 1963 that the office of provost on the Faroe Islands was elevated to the position of Deputy Bishop, the Faroe Islands re-established in 1990 and the Faroese People's Church founded as an independent state church in 2007 .

In 1566 Heini Havreki went back to Norway, where he got his own parish in Radøy and died ten years later.

literature

  • Christian Høj et al .: Søga okkara . Tórshavn: Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur, 1999 - ISBN 99918-0-230-4 ( Google Books )
  • Lucas Jacobson Debes : Natural and Political History of the Faroe Islands . Translated from Danish by CG Mengel, Copenhagen / Leipzig 1757. New edition, commented and with an afterword by Norbert B. Vogt. Mülheim ad Ruhr: 2005. p. 130 [212]
  • GVC Young : From the Vikings to the Reformation. A Chronicle of the Faroe Islands up to 1538 . Isle of Man: Shearwater Press, 1979. ( Google Books )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For example, in the Faroese-English dictionary from 1985 under the keyword maður the example hon er 11th maður frá Heina havreka ("She is the 11th generation after Heini the castaway") [1]
  2. ↑ Søga okkara , p. 12 ff
  3. ↑ a b Homepage of the municipality of Nes
  4. ↑ Most of the newly appointed provosts remained at their previous place of residence.
  5. ↑ From the Vikings to the Reformation , p. 74
  6. ↑ on page 155 in: Hans Jacob Debes: Føroya søga 2. Skattland og len. , Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur, Tórshavn 1995. (archive.org)
personal data
SURNAME Havreki, Heini
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Havreki, Heini Jónsson; Havregster, Heini Jonssøn; Havreke, Heine Johnsen; Heini Jónsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first provost of the Faroe Islands after the Reformation in the Faroe Islands
DATE OF BIRTH 1514
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Norway
DATE OF DEATH 1576
Place of death Radøy