Heinrich Friedrich Holderlin

Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin, portrait from 1767

Hölderlin house in Lauffen am Neckar

Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin (born January 25, 1736 in Lauffen am Neckar , † July 5, 1772 there ) was the cloister steward of Lauffen monastery . He was the father of Friedrich Hölderlin .

Life

Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin was the sixth of seven children of Lauffen's cloister master Friedrich Jacob Hölderlin (1703–1762) and Elisabetha Juliana Haselmeyer (1710–1765), but only he and two of his sisters came to years. He attended high school in Stuttgart and from 1754 attended the University of Tübingen . From 1760 he worked at the court in Tübingen, before he followed his father's death in 1762 in the office of cloister master in Lauffen.

His father had already acquired various vineyards, fields and meadows in Lauffen, which Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin and his sisters increased. In total, the family owned 67.6 ares of vineyards, 1.14 hectares of meadows and 23 fields, some smaller gardens and fishing water.

In 1766 he married Johanna Christiana Heyn . Three children were born to the couple: their son Friedrich Hölderlin in 1770 , a daughter who died in childhood in 1771 and their daughter Maria Eleonora Heinrica (Rike) in 1772.

The family lived in a house next to the monastery (today: Nordheimer Strasse 5), which Heinrich Friedrich's father had acquired in 1743.

Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin died of a stroke in 1772, probably in the office building of the Lauffen monastery. His widow married the Nürtingen wine merchant Johann Christoph Gok (1748–1779) in 1774, who was later also mayor of Nürtingen. The marriage came from Hölderlin's half-brother Karl Gok .

literature

• Otfried Kies: Hölderlin and his family in Lauffen am Neckar. Edited by the Hölderlin Society in connection with the city of Lauffen am Neckar. Verlag Hölderlin-Gesellschaft, Tübingen 2001