Heinrich Ammersbach

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Heinrich Ammersbach (born October 17, 1632 in Halberstadt ; † July 17, 1691 ibid) was a Protestant pastor and writer.

After studying in Wittenberg and Jena , Ammersbach became pastor to St. Peter and Paul in his hometown in 1658. As a follower of Johann Arndt , Christian Hoburg , of mystical spiritualism and chiliasm , he published a number of polemical writings against Lutheran orthodoxy and secular Christianity under the pseudonyms Heinrich Hansen and Christian Warner . This in turn provoked responses from colleagues and a formal condemnation by the Ministry Tripolitanum of the imperial cities of Hamburg , Lübeck and Lüneburg . Ammersbach tried unsuccessfully to get Philipp Jacob Spener on his side, but remained unchallenged in his pastor thanks to the protection of the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm .

Ammersbach was married twice. None of the children from the first marriage with Anna Elisabeth Vieleitz reached adulthood. The second marriage with Catharina Elisabeth von Sommerlatten in 1682 remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lamentations about the anti-Christian Pharisee atrocities, so today every now and then in the worthy Christianity in full swing ... 1664.
  • New idol / Old Teuffel / or Flying Letter: According to which today's day / as in the past with the Jewish people / all thieves and perjurers are spoken piously / Then the raw world children completely recklessly persist in sins without rew and schew and do not recognize once / what misery and blindness they live in . 1665
  • Covering the two great anti-Christians, Pope and Turk: it describes what is to be observed in and around the Pope and Turk ... item how to understand one and the other in H. Schrifft ... 1665.
  • Secret of the last times. Regarding the Proverbs ... Joel 3. Apoc. 20. Zach. 14. ... in it of special clearing ... of the rest of the pious, as well as of revelations ... of these last times ... is acted on ... 1665.
  • Philosophical drunkard coat / The voluptuous drunkard hides and disguises himself / That the rude and secure children of the world in his ugly and hideous murderous form do not immediately recognize and shy away from him / but consider him an angel of Liechts and worship him ... 1669.
  • Cathedra Mosis: This is Mosis Stuel on which the Pharisees and scholars sit. Who, according to their conceited son of wisdom, want to be orthodox teachers for other Orthodox, and yet ... the pure teaching of Christ for e. To shout out erroneous heretic and Schwermer doctrines unduly ... 1671.
  • Quedlinburg District Tag Memorial . 1673
  • Apologia or honor salvation of the two faithful teachers / Stephani Praetorii and Mart. Statii , Against the so-called Christian warning Georg. Conradi Dilfelds . 1677.
  • Brief discussion of an academic so-called Christian well-founded censorship on Christian Hoburg's Postillam Evangeliorum Mysticam . 1677.
  • Summa Summarum / (Luth. Kirch. Postill Epist. 4th Advent p. 44. ult.) Theologia Brevissima Et Longissima (Luth. Tom. 5. Witt. Lat. P. 416. a. Commendat) Haupt-Summ Der gantzen Christian teaching ... 1678.
  • Salvation of the pure doctrine of Dd. Lutheri , Meisneri , Speneri, and others who teach: that from a Christian and Christ would be equal as one person, therefore a believing Christian could say: I am Christ ... [1678].
  • Chur-Brandenburgische / Märckische / Magdeburgische and Halberstädtsche Chronica: In it also acted casually by many other / particularly adjoining gentlemen . 1682.

literature

  • P. Pressel:  Ammersbach, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 403 f.
  • Johannes Wallmann : Theology and Piety in the Baroque Age. Collected essays . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1995, pp. 121-123. 187-205.
  • Udo Sträter : Ammersbach, Heinrich . In: Religion Past and Present . 4th edition. Vol. 1, 1998, Col. 413.
  • Martin Friedrich : Philipp Jakob Spener and the Halberstadt dispute of 1678. At the same time a contribution on the subject of rebirth in Spener . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 25 (1999), pp. 31–42.
  • Lothar Noack: Bio-Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period. Margraviate of Brandenburg 1640-1713. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, pp. 20–35.

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personal data
SURNAME Ammersbach, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansen, Heinrich (pseudonym); Warner, Christian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1691
Place of death Halberstadt