Johann Adam Bernhard

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Johann Adam Bernhard (born March 23, 1688 in Hanau ; † June 12, 1771 ibid) was a Hanau historian and archivist .

Life

Johann Adam Bernhard was the youngest of eleven children of Martin Bernhard, who came from Bernburg , and of Anna Clara, daughter of a Lutheran church elder who had moved from Gelnhausen to Hanau's old town. He attended the Lutheran School (later: Oberrealschule) and the High State School in Hanau , studied at the Universities of Gießen and Jena and returned to Hanau in 1712 after an educational trip through Saxony , Brandenburg and Thuringia . Here, according to his mother's will, he was to become a pastor. Although he also gave a few sermons, he could not make friends with the profession and became rector of the Lutheran school at the intercession of the consistory . He practiced this profession for 18 years.

At the beginning of May 1736 he was taken over by Landgrave Wilhelm VIII , who after the death of the last Hanau Count, Johann Reinhard III. , inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg in the same year , was entrusted with the management and processing of the archives of the Lords and Counts of Hanau for the new sovereign. He received the title of Hessen-Hanauischer Historiographus and Archivarius . Filling this position with Bernhard was a stroke of luck, as he was not only interested in local history. He turned out to be a meticulous and tireless workaholic . In addition to his rectorate, he had already written numerous treatises on Hanau's history, only some of which have been published and some of which have been preserved as manuscripts.

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In 1731 he published one of his most important works, the Antiquitates Wetteraviae ("Antiquities of the Wetterau").

The scientific achievement of Bernhard is to have corrected many stories of chroniclers and court reporters on the basis of the archival sources and thus for the first time to have scientifically substantiated the history of the County of Hanau. Due to his precise knowledge of the Count's archive, he orientated himself strictly to historically documented information. In doing so, he prepared the ground for regional history.

Bernhard's records are still an important basis for researching the history of the County of Hanau . Part of it, such as the so-called servant book , is owned by the Hanau History Association and can be viewed in the Hanau City Archives . Another part of his estate went to the Hessian State Archives in Marburg .

Fonts

  • " School morality, or written and reasonably-wise doctrinal sentences, of which students' duties towards God, themselves, and their neighbors " (Frankfurt / Leipzig, 1725) - digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Franc. Irenici Exegesis historiae Germaniae (1728)
  • Antiquities Wetteraviae (1731)
  • Collections on the history of Hanau, especially in the years 1633-45 (but also a few other things) ( n.d. ), therein: The poor and sad state of the city of Hanau and the rest of the country, 1635-1645
  • Hanau church history up to 1642. Handwritten manuscript in the archive of the Hanau History Association (1734)
  • Third repertory or increased and continued Salbuch by Johann Adam Bernhard (1741)
  • Chronological repertory of the Hanau Archive by Johann Adam Bernhard (around 1750)
  • Servant book (1757/58, in the archive of the Hanau History Association)
  • Specification of the feudal reverse and its storage with entries by Johann Adam Bernhard and continued until 1802 , therein: List of the feudal letters found in the Hanau Castle , 19th century.

literature

  • Karl Bernhardi:  Bernhard, Johann Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 458.
  • Karl Ludwig Krauskopf: Johann Adam Bernhard: the nestor of Hanau historiography. In: Stadtzeit 6. 700 years of city rights, 400 years of Jewish employment. Hanau 2003, ISBN 3-9806988-8-2 , p. 210f.
  • Eckhard Meise : The 'Comitatus Hanau' map and a controversy of the 18th century: where does the name 'Bulau' come from? In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte 2010, pp. 9–43, esp. Pp. 12–14.
  • Eckhard Meise: The report of Johann Adam Bernhard about the plague and the plague of the Hanauer during the Lamboy blockade 1635/36 , In: New magazine for Hanauische Geschichte 2002, S. 40-44.
  • Eckhard Meise: Johann Adam Bernhard and his report on the beginnings of the city of Hanau: Leben u. Plant. In: 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , pp. 53-74.
  • Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries. Hanauer Geschichtsverein , Hanau 1919 (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter NF 3/4 ), pp. 15-17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johann Adam Bernhard: Antiquitates Wetteraviae or Antiquities of the Wetterau, in which the state of this country among the nationalities, Gowen and Reichsvogteyen, is traded and everything is confirmed with suitable evidence, including many documents that have never been printed, to which comes Erasmi Alberi and Marquardi Freheri under the name Weyrich Wettermann's short description of the Wetterau. Ziegler, Hanau 1731.
  2. ↑ Hanau City Archives
  3. ^ HStAM inventory 340 Bernhard  In: Archive information system Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  4. ↑ HStAM Best. Coll. 1 No. 151 a
  5. ↑ HStAM Order R No. 1116.
  6. ↑ HStAM Order R No. 1130.
  7. ↑ HStAM Order R No. 112.
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1771
Place of death Hanau