Heinrich Arnold Stockfleth

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Heinrich Arnold Stockfleth, engraving by Georg Christoph Eimmart

Heinrich Arnold Stockfleth (born April 17, 1643 in Alfeld , Lower Saxony ; † August 8, 1708 in Münchberg , Upper Franconia ) was a German Lutheran theologian, pastor in the Margraviate Brandenburg-Bayreuth , superintendent and poet in the Nuremberg Pegnese Flower Order .

life and work

As the son of the Hanover consistorial councilor Johann Caspar Stockfleth, he studied theology in Altdorf . After earning his master's degree , he took up a pastor's position in Baiersdorf in 1666 . Since that time he was in contact with Sigmund von Birken , who accepted him in 1668 under the shepherd's pseudonym Dorus in the Pegnese Flower Order .

In 1669 Stockfleth emerged as the author of the allegorical shepherd novel Die Kunst- und Virtue-Gezierte Macarie , which is introduced by the honorary poems of the fellow shepherds. In March of that year he married the pastor's widow Maria Catharina Heden , b. Frisch, a daughter of the famous Nuremberg theologian Johann Leonhard Frisch . For the wedding, a larger occasional pamphlet by the Pegnitzschäfer appeared, the excellence of the darling woman's room . In this work there are quite a few poems by women, which was very unusual at the time. The women appear as equal to their male poet friends and articulate the desire for respect for the female sex.

After receiving his doctorate under Johann Andreas Osiander in Tübingen, Stockfleth was the first superintendent in Neustadt an der Aisch from February 15, 1679 to August 19, 1683 . An investigation initiated by the state authorities in 1681 led to the decision in August 1683 to dissolve the entire clergy (the "Ministry") in Neustadt. In the same year Heinrich and Maria Stockfleth went to Münchberg and received the highest spiritual position in the Margraviate of Bayreuth . After Stockfleth was dismissed from state and church service by the margrave in 1688, Paul Eugenius Layritz was his successor in Neustadt a few years later . After the death of his wife in 1696 Stockfleth stayed in Sweden for a long time . The year before he had Sophia Barbara Appold, b. Baumgärtner, widow of the Consistorial President of Ansbach, married.

In addition to his literary work for the Nuremberg Poet Society, Stockfleth has emerged as an author of sermons , spiritual reflections and devotional hymns , as well as an arranger of hymns .

Fonts

  • The Macarie decorated with art and virtue , part 1. Nuremberg 1669. New print, ed. by Volker Meid. Bern, Frankfurt / M .: Peter Lang 1978 (reprints of German literature of the 17th century, vol. 19)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950, pp. 179, 286 f. and 679.
  2. ↑ Max Döllner (1950), p. 286 f.
personal data
SURNAME Stockfleth, Heinrich Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH Alfeld (Leine) , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1708
Place of death Münchberg , Upper Franconia