Heinrich Horch

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Heinrich Horch (born December 12, 1652 in Eschwege , † August 5, 1729 in Kirchhain ) was a German separatist mystic within radical Pietism .

In 1670 he began studying theology in Marburg, which he continued in Bremen, where he became a student of Theodor Undereyck . Back in Marburg in 1674, he also studied medicine and physics. From 1683 he worked as a deacon at the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Heidelberg . There he was suspected of being a chiliast . In 1685 he went to Kreuznach as a pastor and court preacher . In 1686 Horch obtained his doctorate in Heidelberg and was now active as a reformed pastor at the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Heidelberg and later in Frankfurt am Main (1689). In 1690 he became pastor in Herborn and theology professor at the Reformed University there . He was influenced and radicalized here by the separatist prophet Balthasar Christoph Klopfer , for whom he campaigned in 1697 after his imprisonment.

In 1698 he was removed from office; he had called the universities the work of the devil. In anticipation of the Millennium , he organized Philadelphian communities in Hesse; in Marburg he was able to win over the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg family . Some researchers (Breuer, Hochhuth) believe that he influenced Eva von Buttlar . He was temporarily in Berleburg and was in contact with other separatists such as Samuel Heinrich König and Johann Henrich Reitz . Konrad Bröske gave him refuge in Offenbach .

In 1700, imprisoned in Herborn, he was insane for a few months. After his recovery, he announced his return to the Reformed Church. He continued to advocate a reform of the “corrupt” church, understood the Bible mystically and expected the millennium, as the “Marburg Bible” published in 1712 together with Ludwig Christof Schefer testifies, in which the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse are interpreted mystically were.

Works

  • Written examination of the letters to the seven churches in Asia , Herborn, 1693
  • Elementa arithmerica vulgaris & literalis , Leipzig, 1695
  • The alpha and omega of the whole of H. Schrifft , Leipzig, 1697
  • Mystical and prophetic bible sampt explanation of symbols a. Prophecies , Marburg, 1712
  • Filadelfish temptation hour, in view of the so-called Eternal Gospel , Marburg, 1715
  • Prophetic clock hand of the Muslim Empire in its beginning, progress and decline, placed after the number of the anti-Christian animal , Marburg, 1717

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personal data
SURNAME Horch, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horche, Heinrich; Horchius, Heinricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed mystical theologian and Bible translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1729
Place of death Kirchhain