Johann Flittner

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Johann Flittner , also Flitner , Flietner , Latinized Iohannes Flitnerus , (born November 1, 1618 in Suhl , † January 7, 1678 in Stralsund ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, hymn poet and composer.

Life

Flittner's father owned an iron ore mine and traded in wine, iron and weapons. Johann Flittner attended the city school in Suhl until 1633, then the grammar school in Schleusingen . In 1637 he began studying theology at the University of Wittenberg , in 1640 he moved to the University of Jena and later to the University of Leipzig . In 1643 he came to the University of Rostock . There he heard lectures from Johann Quistorp the Elder .

During a trip through Pomerania he found out about the vacant cantor position in Grimmen in Tribsees , for which he successfully applied. At Easter 1644 he became cantor, occasionally also taking on sermons. In 1646 he became a deacon at the town church of Grimmen and remained in this position until the end of his life. Just one month after taking office , he married his predecessor's widow . Although the pastor's position was vacant several times during his time, it was never given to him. He did not have a good relationship with the city pastors who were superiors to him from the Senate of the University of Greifswald , which held the church patronage .

During the Second Northern War he fled to Stralsund. In exile in 1659 he wrote the “Himmlische Lust-Gärtlein”, which he had printed in Greifswald in 1661 , a collection of prayers and hymns. The fifth part, Suscitabulum musicum ( little musical alarm clock ) contains eleven songs that he wrote himself, most of which he set to music himself. Nine were included in the Nuremberg hymn book of 1677. Johann Sebastian Bach composed several movements for Flittner's chorale verses ( BWV 259, BWV 361, BWV 473). Four were still in use in Pomerania in the 19th century.

During the Swedish-Brandenburg War he fled again to Stralsund. There he died after suffering from white dysentery for a long time . His body was transferred to Grimmen and buried there in front of the altar in the Marienkirche.

He should not be confused with the poet Johann Flitner , who in 1620 published a Latin translation of Thomas Murner's guild guild ( Nebulo nebulonum ) and was a proofreader at Merian's publishing house in Frankfurt am Main.

family

Johann Flittner married Anna Margarethe Aven, the daughter of the mayor Nicolaus Aven and widow of the deacon Caspar Helm, on May 2, 1646. The two had five children, three of whom died early. Her son of the same name became mayor of Grimmen.

plant

  • Heavenly pleasure garden, in which to find: All sorts of beautiful confession and communion prayer, history and song flowers, planted outside the large paradise garden of the h. Schrifft and pure church teachers from J. Flittnern, preacher to Grimmen in Vor-Pommern. Greifswald 1661, in it part 5: Suscitabulum musicum, that is: Musical alarm clock. :
    • Oh, what am I supposed to do a sinner.
    • I think so.
    • Jesus, the pasture of my souls.
    • Jesus, the joy of my heart.
    • Human aid is futile, favor and art are fleeting.
    • Happy, yes happy, he who willingly endures.
    • What torments my heart for grief and pain.

literature

  • Eduard Emil Koch : History of the hymn and hymn of the Christian, especially the German Protestant church. Vol. 3, 3rd edition, Belser, Stuttgart 1867, p. 442f ( Google Books ).
  • Georg Heinrich Götze : Send letter to the author of the Evangelical Song Treasure, ST Mr. M. Jo. Christoph. Olearium ... directed, in which different things that are useful for the history of songs are recently dealt with. Schmalhertz, Lübeck 1709, p. 4f ( Google Books ).
  • Beate Bugenhagen: Flitner, Flittner, Flidner, Johann, Johannes, in: Music in the past and present, personal section, Volume 6, Bärenreiter 2011, Sp. 1332-1333
  • Ina Altripp: Johann Flittner - Deacon and hymn poet in Grimmen in the second half of the 17th century, in: The Marienkirche in Grimmen and its community: Contributions to the church history of a Pomeranian city, Kiel: Ludwig 2015, pp. 205–207
  • Grete Grewolls: Flitner, Johannes, in: Wer war Wer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ Flögel, Geschichte der Komischen Literatur , Volume 3, Liegnitz and Leipzig 1786, p. 195. He also published Manipulum Epigrammatum in 1619 and translated the Sphynx by Heidfeld and other writers from Latin into German.
  3. ^ Eduard Emil Koch: History of hymns and hymns of the Christian, especially the German Protestant church. Vol. 3, 3rd edition, Belser, Stuttgart 1867, Fourth Period, Section I, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Flittner, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flittner, Johannes; Flitner, Johann; Flietner, Johann; Flitnerus, Iohannis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman, hymn poet and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1678
Place of death Stralsund