Johann Georg Leuckfeld

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Johann Georg Leuckfeld, copper engraving by Christian Romstet
The marriage certificate of Empress Theophanu and Otto II, rediscovered by Leuckfeld .

Johann Georg Leuckfeld (born July 4, 1668 in Heringen , † April 24, 1726 in Gröningen ) was a German theologian, writer, historian and collector of documents.

Life

Leuckfeld attended the schools in Stolberg , Frankenhausen and Quedlinburg . Then he studied theology in Leipzig . From an early age he was interested in local history and the acquisition and evaluation of historical documents. After graduating, he returned to Heringen and preached until he was 32 years old. His first book was published in Frankfurt in 1699. From 1700 he worked as secretary to the abbess of the Gandersheim monastery; at the same time he assumed the office of preacher. In 1702 he took over the position of senior pastor in Gröningen. In addition to this position, Leuckfeld worked as a chronicler, numismatist, biographer, bibliographer and genealogist. In his accompanying literary work he created an extensive work in which the biographies of Johann Spangenberg and Cyriakus Spangenberg as well as Michael Neander are the most important representations. Leuckfeld was in constant correspondence with over 200 contemporaries, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Ernst Salomon Cyprian and Christian Schlegel .

In addition, Leuckfeld became known to the educated public for finding and collecting medieval documents, letters and manuscripts believed to be lost. The most prominent find was the marriage certificate of Empress Theophanu found in Gandersheim Abbey in 1700 .

1710, Duke Anton Ulrich (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) appointed Leuckfeld to the monastery council; In 1712 he was accepted into the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

He died on April 24, 1726, the grave is in the St. Martin Church in Gröningen.

Works (selection)

The famous monastery researcher researched the history of many north or central German monasteries and often wrote the first German-language treatises about them:

  • Walkenried Monastery : Antiquitates Walckenredenses, or historical description of the previously famous Käyserl. Freyen Reichs-Abtey Walckenried Cistercian order: In the first part of this foundation age, country area, Orthe, name, monastic order, construction, inauguration, branches, churches ... In the other part of the cloister's donor, advocate , Aebten, administrators, priors ... is traded / To explain the Thuringian Hartz history From which Stiffts letters, rare manuscripts and other proven historicis are diligently collected, also with useful comments and necessary Kupffer pieces by Johann Georg Leuckfeld , Pastore Primario in Gröningen. Leipzig and Nordhausen 1705; Bavarian State Library, Munich .
  • Pöhlde Monastery : Antiqvitates Poeldenses. Or historical description of the previous Stifft Voelde, Premonstratensian Order, what names of this Closter, time of the foundation, country area ... Compiled from rare archives and writings and ... explained. Wolfenbüttel 1707; Bavarian State Library, Munich .
  • Gandersheim Abbey : Antiqvitates Gandersheimenses. Or historical description of the Uhralten Käyserl. Freyen Weltlichen Reichs-Stiffts Gandersheim ...: To which a very old Lower Saxon rhyme-Chronicon dealing with this foundation, as well as the famous Hroswithæ, a bit more requested Latin Carmen From the building of this foundation ...; In addition to a special preface Tit: Mr. Johan: Andreæ Schmidts, Abtens zu Marienthal, SS. Th. Doct. Wolfenbüttel 1709; SLUB Dresden .
  • Ilfeld Monastery : Antiqvitates Ilfeldenses, Or historical description of the Ilfeld Closter / Præmonstratenser Order: What is dealt with in detail by this Stiffts-Age / Country / Orthe / Name ... etc .; Carried together from rare manuscripts and reinforced historicis / also with useful comments / diplomatic bus, letters, registers, etc. Copper illustrated; Which is also added by the famous Professoris Laurentii Rhodomanni Ilfelda Hercynica. Quedlinburg 1709 ULB Hall .
  • Michaelstein Monastery and Amelungsborn Monastery : Antiquitates Michaelsteinenses et Amelunxbornenses, that is the historical description of the previously famous Cistercian abbeys Michaelstein and Amelunxborn, where the same location, donors, edifices, goods, abbots, etc. are dealt with. Wolfenbüttel 1710; Bavarian State Library, Munich .
  • Bursfelde Monastery : Antiqvitates Bursfeldenses, or historical description of the former Burßfelde cloister ... In addition to the Kurtzer historical message from the Ringelheim and S. Blasii monasteries in Northeim. Wolfenbüttel 1713; Bavarian State Library, Munich .
  • Monastery Kelbra : historical description, places located by Dreyen in and near the Güldenen-Aue: Namely: The former Cistercian Closter S. Georgii zu Kelbra, in addition to a genealogical message from the lived counts of Beichlingen, as well as from the old Keyserlichen Pfaltzen Alstedt and Walhausen, collected from reinforced historicis and useful Mscriptis, and elucidated with many diplomatic buses, for the most part previously hidden, and also proven attached notes, communicated to lovers to improve the history of the middle ages. Leipzig and Wolfenbüttel 1721; Bavarian State Library, Munich .
  • Himmelgarten Abbey : Johann Georg Leuckfeld's Kurtze Historical message from the former Augustinian Closter Himmelgarten , Ohnweit Nordhausen. Halberstadt and Leipzig 1723.

literature

  • Carsten Berndt: Historia Leuckfeldi, or detailed description of the life and work of Johann Georg Leuckfeld , Auleben, Regionale-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-934780-12-1 , OCLC: 53805432.
  • Tobias Eckhard: Biography of the venerable and highly learned Mr. Johan (n) George Leuckfelds, Weyland Pastoris Primarii zu Gröningen, and the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences member. In addition to the correct list of the writings, which he had partly in print, partly in hand and want to make , Quedlinburg 1727.
  • Bernd Feicke :  Johann Georg Leuckfeld. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 779-786.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Jakob Franck :  Leuckfeld, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 481 f.
  • Dieter Lent: Leuckfeld, Johann Georg . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Eds.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 438f, ISBN 978-3-937664-46-0 .
  • Carsten Berndt: Johann Georg Leuckfeld, Roswitha von Gandersheim and the marriage certificate of Empress Theophanu : Investigations into the main written estate of Johann Georg Leuckfeld (1668 to 1726) and examples of scientific networking in the Baroque era . In: Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen , Vol. 36, Nordhausen 2011, pp. 41–58.
  • Carsten Berndt: The Antiquitates Ilfeldenses by Johann Georg Leuckfeld from 1709 and their continuation until 1750 . In: Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen , Vol. 40, Nordhausen 2015, pp. 5–24, ISBN 978-3-939357-26-1

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personal data
SURNAME Leuckfeld, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian, writer, historian and document collector
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrings
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1726
Place of death Groeningen