Heinrich Westfal

Heinrich Westfal in the Köhler ancestral gallery

Heinrich Westfal (* in Lübeck ; † 1505 ibid) was a Lübeck carnival poet and councilor .

Life

Heinrich Westfal was the son of the mayor of Lübeck, Johann Westphal . Heinrich's sister Elisabeth married the mayor of Lübeck Heinrich Brömse , his brother Wilhelm Westphal was bishop of Lübeck from 1506 to 1509 . Heinrich Westfal became a member of the patrician circle society in 1488, like his father before . In 1496 he was elected to the city council.

At the Lübeck Carnival Games held by the Circle Society , he appeared in 1484 together with Johann Lüneburg († 1493) , his brother Heinrich Lüneburg, who died in 1484, and Hans Witick as one of the four carnival poets appointed every year. The piece van derrechtverdicheyt , composed by the four carnival poets, was performed . It was printed in a modified form between 1497 and 1500 in the Lübeck Mohnkopfoffizin of Hans van Ghetelen as an incunabula with the title Henselynboek and is thus the only carnival game from Lübeck that has survived in writing and is now recorded in the holdings of the Hamburg State and University Library .

Westfal was married twice, his first wife died in 1500. In his second marriage he was married to Heileke, a daughter of Johann von Wickede. According to Fehling's assumption, he lived in his father's house on Königstrasse , which is currently number 31. His portrait in the Köhler's ancestral gallery of his descendant Anton Köhler shows him in medieval bell costume .

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 577.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ C. Walther: On the Lübeker Fastnachtspiele in: Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung Volume 27, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1901, p. 1 ff. (P. 4)
2. ↑ Henselyn in the complete catalog of the cradle prints (GW number HENSELY)