Jaroměr Hendrich Imiš

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Jaroměr Hendrich Imiš

Hendrich Imiš , German name Heinrich Immisch (born December 16, 1819 in Buchwalde , Upper Lusatia , † December 12, 1897 in Göda ) was a Protestant pastor and cultural politician of the Sorbs .

Life

Immisch attended grammar school in Bautzen from 1832 to 1840 and was one of the founders of the Sorbian grammar school association Societas Slavica Budissinensis in 1839 . From 1840 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . As a member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig , he was known as a talented fencer at the Central German universities under the name "der Wende". He fought 14 lengths , two of them on Parisian and two on saber . He also had a pistol duel on July 28, 1843. From 1851 to 1858 he worked as a pastor in Oßling and from 1858 to 1897 in St. Peter and Paul (Göda) .

In the 1840s he was one of the founding fathers of Maćica Serbska - a Sorbian scholars' association, but as a result of the failed German Revolution of 1848/49 he took an increasingly conservative political stance that soon put him between the fronts of a growing Sorbian national movement in Saxony and an increasing Germanization pressure on the part of the Kingdom of Saxony should bring. In 1849, together with other Sorbian clergy, he founded the "Wendish Lutheran Book Society" (Serbske lutherske knihowne towarstwo), which played an essential role in the publication and dissemination of the Sorbian evangelical literature. In 1867 the Lausitzer Predigergesellschaft zu Leipzig , later Sorabia , appointed him an honorary member because of his services to the Wendish language and literature. With the approval of the Saxon Ministry of Culture, he set up the Wendish homiletic seminar in Göda in 1877 , in which Sorbian Protestant pastors and theology students were able to train in four-week summer courses.

Imiš's literary output was mostly limited to religious literature (for example, he edited the Bible editions in Upper Sorbian in 1881 and 1893 and published prayer books and liturgical books), but in 1883 he felt compelled to focus on the increasingly stronger media in the German media Polemic against the alleged Pan-Slavism of the Sorbs, as the exponents of which Jan Arnošt Smoler and Michał Hórnik in particular were viewed, to answer with a pamphlet, for which he was accused and convicted of defamation, but later acquitted by the Leipzig Regional Court.

Imiš was awarded the First Class Order of Merit by the King of Saxony and the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate . From 1876 to 1881 Imiš was a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of Saxony , from 1886 he was honorary chairman of the Maćica Serbska. As a collective reminder of the work of the Göda pastor, in 2006 the board of the Diakonisches Werk in the church district of Bautzen eV named the nursing home there with the name “Haus Immisch”.

  • Immisch as a Lausitzer

  • Imiš (with crown) as "Count Strolch II"

  • Immisch's grave

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig (1897)

Works

  • Pan-Slavism under the Saxon Wends operated with Russian money and carried over to the Wends in Prussia. German answer from a Saxon Wenden. Leipzig 1884 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Rudolf Jenč: Stawizny serbskeho pismowstwa. Volume 2, Budyšin [Bautzen] 1960.
  • Jan Šołta, Pětr Kunze and Franc Šěn (eds.): Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a kulturje Serbow. Budyšin [Bautzen] 1984.

Web links

Commons : Jaroměr Hendrich Imiš  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 149/327
  2. ↑ Annals of the Corps Lusatia
  3. ^ Egbert Weiß : The pistol duels of the Leipzig Lausitz in the 19th century . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 50 (2005), pp. 161, 174.
  4. ↑ Erich Bauer : History of the Corps Lusatia in Leipzig 1807-1932 . Zeulenroda 1932, pp. 364, 431
personal data
SURNAME Imiš, Jaroměr Hendrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imiš, Hendrich; Immisch, Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchwalde , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1897
Place of death Goeda