Heinrich Oraeus

Heinrich Oraeus , actually Maul [cf. Latin "os", "mouth", "Maul"] (born May 4, 1584 in Assenheim , † July 19, 1646 in Hanau ) was a German Reformed theologian and writer .

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Life

Heinrich Maul was born the son of a schoolmaster. After studying in Strasbourg and Frankfurt (Oder) , a stay in Italy followed in 1602/03 . From 1603 he also worked as a schoolmaster, first in Assenheim, then in Laubach . In 1607 he converted from the Lutheran to the Reformed denomination , which enabled him to take up a position as schoolmaster in Dorheim , in the Reformed county of Hanau-Munzenberg . From 1610 he held a number of pastoral positions in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg:

• 1610–1612: Rossdorf
• 1612–1616: Kesselstadt
• 1616–1617: Bruchköbel
• 1617-1639: Nauheim
• 1639–1646: Consistorial councilor , thus leading church official, of the regional church of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg and pastor at the Marienkirche in Hanau. Heinrich Oraeus was married three times. His first marriage had eight daughters. The two following marriages remained childless. He died in an epidemic that broke out in Hanau as a result of the desperate situation in the final phase of the Thirty Years War .

Works

When the Thirty Years War hit the County of Hanau-Munzenberg and the Wetterau with full force in 1635 , he first fled to Frankfurt am Main . Here he wrote the third volume of the Theatrum Europaeum on behalf of Matthäus Merian under the pseudonym Johannes de Hyperius . In addition to funeral sermons, Oraeus published religious poems in Latin , but also polemical writings against the papacy as well as a historically valuable list of theologians' names:

• Nomenclator Praecipuorum Iam Inde A Nato Christo Ecclesiae Doctorum, Scriptorum, Professorum, Metropolitarum, Archiepiscoporum, Episcoporum, Cardinalium, Antistitum, Praesulum ... Haeresiarcharum & Haereticorum, & c . - Hanoviae: Aubrii, 1619

A catalog raisonné is printed by Strieder (see: Literature).

literature

• Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1986, part 1 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 33. Marburg 1984, p. 9f.
• Reinhard Breymayer : " Gnomon typusque vitae Christianae". On the emblematic background of the "gnomon" term in Heinrich Oraeus (1584–1646) and Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752). In: Blätter für Wuerttemberg Church History , Vol. 88 (1988). Festschrift for Gerhard Schäfer . Edited by Martin Brecht . Stuttgart [1989], pp. 289-323.
• Erhard Bus: The time of devastation - the west of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg after the battle of Nördlingen, 1634-1648. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein : The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 (2011), ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 197–226 (204).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno :  Oraeus, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 408 f.
• Eckhardt Riescher: Pastor in dire need - The Wetterau at the time of the Thirty Years' War . History workshop Büdingen 2014 ISBN 978-3-939454-78-6
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis of a Hessian scholar [-] and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day . Vol. 10 (Na-Pfaff). Cassel 1795. ND = Publications from the history of the Althessian "Landscape on the Werra" Vol. 29. Göttingen 1987, pp. 143-150

Web links

• Publications by and about Heinrich Oraeus in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aschkewitz, p. 9.
2. ↑ Aschkewitz, p. 9.
3. ↑ Aschkewitz, p. 9.
4. ↑ Bus, p. 226.
5. ↑ Aschkewitz, p. 9.
6. ↑ Strieder, pp. 145-150.