Heinrich Hudemann

This article deals with the baroque poet, for the photographer see Heinrich Theodor Hudemann

Heinrich Hudemann (also Henrich ; after 1595 in Beidenfleth / Holstein; † 1628 or 1629 in Wewelsfleth / Holstein) was a German poet of late humanism and early baroque .

Life

Hudemann comes from a Holstein evangelical pastor family. His father of the same name (1571–1626) had been a deacon in Beidenfleth since 1595 and also worked as a poet. The mother Catharina Puls (ius) was the daughter of the Wewelsflether pastor. She had previously been married to Pastor Schnipperius from both Flethers. In 1601 Heinrich Hudemann the Elder took over the pastoral position of his father-in-law, who died in 1600, in Wewelsfleth. Hudemann's younger brother Johann (1606–1678) was born there, who became general superintendent of Holstein in 1668 and of Schleswig in 1673 as well . A sister married Nikolaus Lackmann († 1632), who had been a deacon in Wewelsfleth since 1627. The Socinian Martin Ruarus was Hudemann's cousin, to whom he dedicated his first published epodic verses in 1623 .

Hudemann spent his childhood at home and later attended the Latin school in Itzehoe . In 1615 he enrolled as a theologian at the University of Rostock . In 1620 he returned to Wewelsfleth, where he first became a deacon and from 1625 an adjunct to his father. After the death of his father in 1626, he took over his parish and became engaged to Caecilie, the daughter of the Kremper Rector Johann Wolter. The wedding never took place; because only a little later the Thirty Years War reached Holstein. In 1628 or 1629 Hudemann died at the age of about 33 while his parish was occupied by Tilly's soldiers. He was allegedly poisoned because he was too frank with the Catholic soldiers. He was succeeded by his brother in 1629.

Work and meaning

Hudemann was considered Holsteins Horace . He wrote poetry in neo-Latin in the style of its epodes , but also leaned on Martial and Catullus . Unlike his father's friend Samuel Rosenbohm , for example , his poetry often had Christian themes as its content. It is therefore to be assigned to a “Christian humanism ”. His model was Johannes Caselius , whose works he published in 1624, but without having met him personally. In the same collection called Carmina gnomica graeca et latina he also published some of his own poems. In addition to some verses from 1623 addressed to Ruarus and the works mentioned below, a number of letters from him have also survived.

Divitiae poeticae

Hudemann's most important publication, the Divitiae poeticae , comprises 178 of his works. The book contains six books of Latin poetry on a total of 254 pages, followed by a book of German poems under the title Teutsche Musa . The connection between Latin and German poetry was probably not done programmatically, as has been assumed in some research, but for material reasons. Hudemann could not have afforded the printing of a second book.

The first book contains prayers. Many of the remaining poems are addressed to friends and (potential) sponsors. The addressees included a. In addition to King Christian IV and two Hamburg mayors, the Danish scholar Holger Rosenkrantz , the cousin Martin Ruarus - who is asked to return home in paraphrased verses by Catullus - Joachim Morsius and the Dutch scholar Daniel Heinsius , who published Horace's works in 1610 and had followed them up with a study of the poet in 1612. It can be seen that, although Hudemann spent his entire life in the vicinity of Wewelsfleth except for his student years, even in the middle of the Thirty Years War he was part of a network of scholars and poets in Holstein, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden. There were numerous poets among the pastors in his neighborhood, including Hudemann's own father, Wilhelm Alard and Samuel Rosenbohm.

German poetry

In addition to Latin poems, Hudemann also wrote German-language poetry. These include three German deaths against Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar - erroneously, because the general suffered a defeat in Holstein on the Danish side in 1627, but did not fall until 1639 - Gerhard Rantzau and Marquard von Pentz , which he wrote in 1627 under the title Henrici Hudemanni Drey published songs . He is therefore, alongside Martin Opitz, a “pioneer of national-language poetry”. Opitz and Hudemann never met each other personally, but knew each other's works and competed poetically with one another.

The largest part of the German-language section of the Divitiae poeticae is a retelling of the Old Testament story of Jonas in 664 Alexandrians , a rewrite of Hugo Grotius ' modern Historia Jonae . Hudemann's epic appeared three years before Opitz's treatment of the same subject, Hudemann used quotations from Opitz's earlier works in so many places that “his Jonas epic can almost be described as Opitz- Cento ”. Theologically and stylistically, however, Hudemanns Jonas is quite independent: His Jonas is above all a preacher of penance and penance, who first calls the ship's crew and then the Ninevites to penance. In view of the atrocities of war, the actual addressees are Hudemann's contemporaries. The stay in the whale, the longest section in the case of Grotius and Opitz, has, however, been greatly shortened.

Works

• (Ed.) Johannes Caselius : Carmina gnomica graeca et latina . Hamburg 1624
• Divitiae poeticae . Hamburg 1626 (Latin and German poetry)
• Brain grinder. That is: Extra-read German emblemata : which are adorned with verses to sharpen the understanding / to improve the sinful life / and to amuse the whole person / and in this language do not come out beforehand . 1626
• Henrici Hudemanni Drey songs . 1627

literature

• Achim Aurnhammer: Henrich Hudemann's Jonas epic. In: Johann Anselm Steiger , Wilhelm Kühlmann (eds.): The problematic prophet: The biblical Jona figure in exegesis, theology, literature and fine arts. De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 183–222 (The poem is printed from p. 205).

• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Heinrich Hudemann dJ In: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 2173-2174.

• Thomas Haye: Henrich Hudemann (approx. 1595–1628) - Holsteins Horace. In: Philologus 2013, pp. 338-360 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Archives for State and Church History of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring states and cities , Volume 5, p. 370.
2. ↑ Archives for State and Church History of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring states and cities , Volume 5, p. 378.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Haye: Henrich Hudemann (approx. 1595–1628) - Holsteins Horaz, p. 339.
4. ↑ See the entry of Heinrich Hudemann's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
5. ↑ Archives for State and Church History of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring states and cities , Volume 5, p. 371.
6. ↑ Haye: Henrich Hudemann (approx. 1595-1628) - Holsteins Horaz, p. 345f.
7. ↑ Haye: Henrich Hudemann (approx. 1595-1628) - Holsteins Horaz, p. 340.
8. ↑ Haye: Henrich Hudemann (approx. 1595-1628) - Holsteins Horaz, p. 338.
9. ^ Aurnhammer: Henrich Hudemann's Jonas epic. , P. 190.
10. ^ Aurnhammer: Henrich Hudemann's Jonas epic. , P. 186 note 12.
11. ^ Aurnhammer: Henrich Hudemann's Jonas epic. , P. 190.
12. ^ Aurnhammer: Henrich Hudemann's Jonas epic. , P. 204.

Web links

• Publications by and about Heinrich Hudemann in VD 17 .