Henning Hagen

Henning Hagen (* around 1435 in Helmstedt ; † 1504 ibid. (?)) Was a German Benedictine monk and late medieval historian . He wrote the first city ​​chronicle of Helmstedt .

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Henning Hagen, whose family origin is unknown, probably attended the St. Aegidien monastery school in Braunschweig . He was then first a monk in the Benedictine monastery Werden and from 1492 (?) To 1504 provost of the Benedictine monastery St. Ludgeri in Helmstedt. In 1499 he took part in the general chapter of the Bursfeld congregation in Thuringia.

Hagen wrote several writings, including a catalog of the abbots of the Werden monastery and a compilation of the documents of the St. Ludgeri monastery in a copy book . His town chronicle of Helmstedt, published in 1491, deserves special mention. It contains a systematically arranged collection of around 470 certificate extracts, which are made accessible via a register and which Hagen has provided with his own comments. In the Wolfenbüttel State Archives there is also a 167-page school notebook from Hagens from 1453. It contains elaborations of theological lectures and moral-religious stories.

Hagen's historical writings are characterized as "noteworthy". His city chronicle is one of the earliest in the Braunschweig region and is widely used, for example for research into legal history . Hagen's listing of the Helmstedt documents formed an essential basis for the Helmstedt city archive.

Works (selection)

• Der Stad Croneke van Helmstedte , 1491. New edition under the title: Henning Hagens Chronik der Stadt Helmstedt . Edited by Edvin Brugge, Hans Wiswe. In: Niederdeutsche Mitteilungen, ed. from the Low German Working Group on Lund. Volume 21/22, 1963/1965, pp. 113–280.

literature

• Edvin Brugge: Henning Hagens town chronicle of Helmstedt . In: Low German messages. Ed. By the Niederdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zu Lund , Vol. 2, 1946, pp. 105–122.
• Dieter Lent : Hagen, Henning . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , pp. 290f. (with archival records from the Wolfenbüttel State Archives).

Web links

• Henning Hagen in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Digitization of the manuscript in the Helmstedt city archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Albert Schuncken: History of the Reichsabtei Werden an der Ruhr , L. Schwan 1865, p. 149.
2. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Hagen, Henning . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 290.
3. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Hagen, Henning . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 290.
4. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Hagen, Henning . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, p. 291.
5. ↑ See Friedrich Ebel, Andreas Fijal, Hans-Jörg lamp, Hans-Jochen Schiewer: Our fruntlichen grus before. German law of the Middle Ages in Central and Eastern Europe . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2004, p. 99.
6. ↑ See the information on the City of Helmstedt website : The history of the Helmstedt city archive ( Memento of the original of December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.