Heinrich Erhard Heeren

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Heinrich Erhard Heeren , with full name Heinrich Erhard Reinhold Heeren , also Hinrich Erhard Heeren and Henricus E. Heeren , (born February 16, 1728 in Wremen ; † March 7, 1811 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant clergyman, pastor, teacher, preacher at Bremen Cathedral as well as author and hymn poet.

Life

Heeren was the son of the clergyman Hermann Heeren (1688–1745), who was cathedral preacher in Bremen from 1741, where he received his higher education at the cathedral school and the Athenaeum . From 1746 he studied Protestant theology , first at the University of Jena , then from 1748 to 1750 at the University of Göttingen . After his return to Bremen, Heeren taught there as a private teacher from 1750 to 1754 . He passed the theological exams in 1753 and the philological exams in 1754. In 1754 he became sub-rector of the cathedral school and the Athenaeum.

In 1760 Heeren became pastor in Arbergen near Bremen and worked as a cathedral preacher at Bremen Cathedral from 1775 until the year of his death in 1811 , and in 1805 he became the first cathedral preacher. Here he was also active as a poet and collector of hymns . The clergyman's grave is also located in Bremen Cathedral.

family

In 1758 Heeren married Margarete, née Wolters (* around 1738 in Bremen; † March 30, 1770 in Arbergen), who gave birth to three sons and a daughter in Arbergen: the later historian Arnold Heeren (* October 25, 1760 in Arbergen; † 7. March 1811 in Bremen), Friedericia Maria Heeren (born August 17, 1762 in Arbergen), the teacher Georg Hinrich Erhard Heeren (born December 14, 1764 in Arbergen, † June 6, 1805 in Bremen) and the businessman Christoph, who later worked in Hamburg Friedrich Heeren (born January 2, 1770 in Arbergen, † July 7, 1843 in Hamburg). A son of the Hamburg businessman was the later chemist Friedrich Heeren , who was born there .

portrait

A portrait of Heinrich Erhard Heeren was engraved by the copperplate engraver Johann Gottfried Pflugfelder in 1807 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Oratio de Henrico Kippingio Egregio Boni Praeceptoris Exemplo Scholaeque Regiae Bremensis Ornamento Quondam Longe Splendidissimo. Pro Felici Subrectoratus Auspicio in Athenaeo Regio Sholaque Cathedrali Bremensi A. MDCCLIIII. D. XXIII. April. In Auditorio Maiori Publice Dicta Nunc Venerando Avo Ob Exactos Feliciter Quinquaginta Sacri Officii Annos Pie Iubilanti Gratulabunda Mente Inscripta / Ab Henrico Erhardo Heeren . Rump, Bremen 1755.
  • New and changed sacred songs for a new public hymn book , contributed by Hinr. Increase Armies. Johann Heinrich Cramer, Bremen 1778 ( digitized version ).
  • with Johann Gotthard Schlichthorst , Hermann Andreas Rieffestahl , Johann Christoph Vogt (Hrsg.): New hymn book of the Evangelical Lutheran cathedral community in Bremen . Diedrich Meier, Bremen 1778 ( digitized version ).
  • About the worship of God in a thunderstorm. A sermon on Aug. 20, 1783, when in the order of the biblical declarations Job 37. the text and presentations of this kind gave rise to many. Föster, Bremen 1783.
  • Sermons, speeches and prayers on the occasion of the inauguration of the new St. Petri orphanage of the Evangelical Lutheran cathedral community in Bremen / held by the preachers at the cathedral and promoted for printing by the heads of the orphanage . Daniel Meier, Bremen 1785.
  • Christian religion book for teaching and thinking about religion and its history . Panties, Bremen 1788.
  • Something for the readers of theol. Annals published by Hassencamp . Bremen 1792.
  • Sermon after fifty years administration of public teaching posts on Sundays Jubilate 1804 ... held in the cathedral church in Bremen ... Meier, Bremen 1804.

literature

  • Hermann Bredenkamp: To Pastor Heinrich Erhard Heeren at the Feyer of his completed 50-year administration. April 23, 1804 . Bremen 1804.
  • Commemorative speech for Mr. Hinrich Erhard Heeren, who is ripe for years and merits ... / delivered by Johann David Nicolai . Meier, Bremen 1811.
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived or are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the present Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers . Vol. 2, Schünemann, Bremen 1823, pp. 286–289 (with list of publications; digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present . Zickfeld, Osterwieck in the Harz Mountains 1891 [new print Olms, Hildesheim, New York 1974, ISBN 3-487-05409-4 ], p. 88 ( digitized version ).
  • Peter Ulrich: Hinrich Erhard Heeren (1728-1811) . In: Wolfgang Bonorden (editor): The graves in Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral. A biographical, genealogical, sociological and heraldic analysis of those buried there. A joint research work by the members and friends of the "Mouse", volume 3 (= sheets of the "Mouse" - Society for Family Research eV 15th issue). Hauschild, Bremen 1996, p.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In addition Eduard Emil Koch : History of hymns and hymns . First main part, 6th volume, 3rd edition. Stuttgart 1869, p. 235 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ See the information on the website of the Verein für Computergenealogie including cross-references, in the version of December 27, 2016, last accessed on April 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ A copy in the Bremen State and University Library . See the information provided by the joint library network .
personal data
SURNAME Heeren, Heinrich Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heeren, Hinrich Erhard; Heeren, Heinrich Erhard Reinhold (full name); Heeren, Hinricus E .; Heeren, Henrico Erhardo (Latinized form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, teacher, preacher at Bremen Cathedral as well as writer and song poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Wremen , Duchy of Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1811
Place of death Bremen