Johann Georg Rauhe

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Johann Georg Rauhe (born April 18, 1739 in Naumburg , † August 8, 1791 in Naumburg ) was a garrison schoolmaster and is known as a forger of history.

Johann Georg attended the Domgymnasium in Naumburg and left it prematurely. He then took up teaching activities in various places in the area. He founded a small school in Naumburg, but it did not last. He then taught in Kösen and finally as a garrison children's teacher for the children of the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Prince Xaver Infantry Regiment again in Naumburg (until 1789).

Out of financial difficulties, Rauhe produced source works on the history of Naumburg, which he invented and sold to wealthy citizens. He used his historical knowledge as the basis for the forgeries, which he tried to make more believable by relying on older, hitherto unknown writings that, however, never existed. The most important is the "Taubesche Chronik" ( Fragmenta excepta ex archivis monasteriorum S. Georgii Mauritique a me Benedicto Taubio fratre ordinis Benedicti ) in the Naumburg city archive . The siege of Naumburg by the Hussites and the cherry festival that it created was particularly stubborn .

He wrongly assigned the Naumburg bishop Withego II. Hildbrandi to the Thuringian noble family von Wolframsdorf , which is reflected in modern literature, e.g. B. also with Alfred Wendehorst , was carried on. In the Taubesche Chronik he named the Naumburg Cathedral as the final resting place, but since there are no indications of this, the burial site must remain unknown.

Works

None of his invented chronicles were ever printed except for the excerpt Die Schwacheit about strength, or thorough news of the Hussite army camped in front of Naumburg in 1432 under their military leader Procopio, and the resulting city of Naumburg school and cherry festivals; all gathered from very rare and rare documents . Weißenfels 1782 ( online ).

literature

  • Carl Peter Lepsius : Small writings: Contributions to the Thuringian-Saxon history and German art and antiquity , Verlag Creutz, 1854 ( online ), before: The legend of the Hussites of Naumburg and the origin of the Naumburg cherry festival, historically and critically examined 1811 ( online ); also in 1823 about the "Taubische Chronik" ( online ).
  • Paul Mitzschke :  Rauhe, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 220-223.
  • Ernst Borkowsky : The chronicle of lies in the archive of the city of Naumburg adS In: Naumburger Heimat 1931, No. 28-29 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Wießner: The Diocese of Naumburg 1 - The Diocese 2 (= Max Planck Institute for History (Hg.): Germania Sacra , NF 35.2, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Magdeburg ). Berlin and New York 1998, pp. 862-867 online .
personal data
SURNAME Rauhe, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garrison schoolmaster, forger of historical works
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1791
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)