Heinrich Wideburg (theologian, 1587)

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Heinrich Wideburg , also Wiedeburg (* 1587 in Neustadt am Rübenberge , † June 15, 1648 in Wolfenbüttel ), was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and mathematician .

Life

Heinrich Wideburg came from a pastor's family and was born in Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Principality of Calenberg in 1587 as the son of superintendent Ludolf Wideburg. Two of his brothers later also reached high ecclesiastical offices in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . Heinrich Wideburg studied among other things Protestant theology at the University of Giessen . In Gießen in 1615 he married Gertrud Mentzer (1597–1667), daughter of the Marburg theology professor Balthasar Mentzer the Elder. Ä. From 1615 to 1617 Wideburg was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Giessen. At the time of the Thirty Years' War , from 1617 to 1647, he was chief pastor at the Wolfenbüttel main church, BMV, and at the same time general superintendent of the Wolfenbüttel general inspection of the Brunswick regional church . From 1632 to 1647 he performed other church leadership tasks as a consistorial councilor .

During the imperial occupation of the city of Wolfenbüttel from 1627 to 1643, Wideburg successfully worked to maintain the existing church and school situation. He was temporarily arrested and banned from office by the occupiers in 1633, as he was suspected unfounded of having helped a Swedish officer escape. Wideburg's community supported the imperial fortress commanders and Duke Friedrich Ulrich for his release.

The construction of the main church in Wolfenbüttel BMV , which began in 1608, was continued during times of war. The construction and interior were largely completed in 1626. As one of the ducal building directors, Wideburg was obviously involved in questions about the design of the interior. In October 1647, against the opposition of the Chancellor Johann Schwartzkopf and the theologians of the University of Helmstedt , he was appointed chief preacher and generalissimo. Wideburg died on June 15, 1648 at the age of 60 or 61 in Wolfenbüttel, where he was buried on June 26 in the Wideburg hereditary burial .

Fonts (selection)

  • M. Henrici Wideburgii Mathem. in Florentissima Academia Giessena Professoris publici Disputationes Astronomicae: In Quibus: Quam Plurimarum, Gravissimarum, praecipue Astronomicarum quaestionum Veritas singulari brevitate & perspicuitate proponitur, illustration, & demonstratur: Publice sub ipsius praesidio a philosophantibus ventilatae . Kaspar Chemlin publishing house, Giessen 1615. ( digitized version )
  • Descriptionem veri Christiani, unde cognosci possit, et quomodo in Christianissimo versari debeat .
  • Concionem gratulatoriam, cum dux Augustus in sedem suam Wolfenbytanam rediret .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Theodor Mahlmann:  Mentzer, Balthasar the Elder. Ä .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 98-100 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Johann Christian Poggendorff (Hrsg.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences , volume 2. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1863, column 1314.
  3. ↑ Georg Dehio (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bremen. Lower Saxony . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1977, p. 991.
  4. ↑ Christoph Woltereck : Chronicon of the city and Vestung Wolffenbüttel . Helmstedt 1747, p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Wideburg, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiedeburg, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt am Rübenberge
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1648
Place of death Wolfenbüttel