Hermann Fabronius

Hermann Fabronius (also: Hermann Fabricius, Erasmus Sabinus Hohfnerus, Harminius de Mosa, Hermann Fabronius Mosemann (us) ; * July 21, 1570 in Gemünden (Wohra) ; † April 12, 1634 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ) was a German Evangelical Reformed theologian and poet.

Life

The son of the Mayor of Gemünden, Hermann Faber, initially bore his father's name, which he later Latinized to Fabricius and changed to Fabronius after his father's death. After graduating from the Latin school in his hometown, he began studying law at the University of Marburg in 1589 and moved to the University of Graz in 1591 . Since he had also made a name for himself as a poet, he was crowned poeta laureatus in 1594 .

When he returned to his hometown, he began studying Protestant theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1595 , but later returned to the University of Marburg . In March 1598 he took over the position of vice-principal at the Kassel pedagogy . At the instigation of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen , he was appointed pastor in Hessisch Lichtenau in 1601 . In 1605 he took over the Neustädter community in Eschwege . Landgrave Moritz took him on a trip to Berlin as a preacher in 1613, where he preached to Elector Johann Sigismund shortly before his conversion to the Reformed Church . In Eschwege he had also become an official assistant to the superintendent Reinmann, whom he followed to Rotenburg in 1622 in the same function. After Reinmann's death, Fabronius himself took over his position on April 24, 1623. He was dean of the monastery in Rotenburg, which office he administered until his death.

Fabronius left an extensive literary work. He published neo-Latin anagrams and eclogues , but also wrote poems in German. His theological works are mainly dedicated to the support of the "Second Reformation", which the Landgrave had set in motion since 1605 with the so-called "points of improvement". So he tried in a pamphlet "from the old faith of the Hessians" to bring evidence that Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous had already been close to the Reformed denomination, and in Lutherans and Calvinists he advocated the Reformed doctrine of the Lord's Supper. In De iure Ecclediastico he stood up for the authority of the sovereign within the framework of the sovereign church regiment . His Historical Description of The Policey Virtues of Christian Authorities and Subjects served the same purpose with the description of the pictorial program that Landgrave Moritz developed for the painting of Eschwege Castle . He wrote several pamphlets against the Saxon Lutheran Leonhard Hutter . There are also several chronicles of world history and the Roman emperors. He published some of his works with the surname Mosemann or under the pseudonyms Erasmus Sabinus Hohfnerus and Harminius de Mosa.

His marriage to Sibylle Majus, daughter of the preacher Lukas Majus from Kassel in 1598 resulted in nine children.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian history of scholars and writers, from the Reformation to the present day. Vol. 4. Kassel 1784, pp. 53-66.
• Heinrich Heppe :  Fabronius, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 528.
• William Jervis Jones: Sprachhelden und Sprachverderber: Documents for the research of foreign word purism in German (1478-1750). de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, p. 61f.
• John Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, pp. 532-535. ISBN 9-783-11091274-6.

Web links

• Publications by and about Hermann Fabronius in VD 17 .
• Works by and about Hermann Fabronius  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antiqua Fides Cattorum: That is / From the old beliefs of the Hessians / Conversation: Erasmi Sabini Hohfneri, the H. Schrifft studiosi: with Justino Valerio, students in the right: Therein shown out of tried and tested writings and land clerks experience / what it is from eighty years and longer ... had a state of confession and faith / ... Wessel, Kassel 1607 ( digital copy ). Cf. also Martin Arnold: The Mauritian Reform in Eschwege. Sovereign denominational politics and civic resistance. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies 111 (2006), pp. 63–84, here pp. 69, 71.
2. ↑ Lutherans and Calvinists, This is / The Evangelical Church Unity for the Old Faith / in the doctrine of the Lord's Supper and the person of our Lord Jesus Christ ... Wessel, Kassel 1607 ( digitized version ). Cf. also Martin Arnold: The Mauritian Reform in Eschwege. Sovereign denominational politics and civic resistance. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies 111 (2006), pp. 63–84, here pp. 69–71.
3. ^ De Iure Ecclesiastico: Liber Episcopalis Ex iure divino, canonico & civili conscriptus. Ketzel, Bad Hersfeld 1632 ( digitized version ). Cf. Luise Schorn-Schütte : Evangelical Spirituality of the Early Modern Era: their share in the development of early modern statehood and society, illustrated using the example of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the city of Braunschweig (= sources and research on the history of the Reformation. Volume 62). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1996, ISBN 3-579-01730-6 , pp. 412-416.
4. ↑ Historical description of the Policey virtues / Christian authorities and Underthanes: How the ... Mr. Moritz L. zu Hessen ... the same is arranged according to the Politia and Ethica in the Eschwege Castle in Hesse, and can be ground down in different rooms with beautiful pictures and histories. .. Ketzel, Schmalkalden 1625 ( digitized version ); Reprinted with commentary in: Heiner Borggrefe, Thomas Fusenig, Birgit Kümmel: Ut Pictura Politeia or the painted princely state. Moritz the Scholar and the picture program in Eschwege. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2000, pp. 140-236.