Johann Heinrich Büttner (Librarian)

Johann Heinrich Büttner (also: Johannes Heinrich Büttner and Johannes Henrich Büttner as well as Johannes Henricus Büttnerus and Joannes Henricus Büttner , also Johann Henrich Büttner and Johan Henrich Büttner ; * July 9, 1666 in Greiz ; † April 30, 1745 or 1746 in Lüneburg ) was a German cantor , historian , librarian , genealogist and council secretary . The entire library of the great Lüneburg collector or parts of it were transferred to the predecessor institution of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library . Two letters from Büttner to Leibniz now form part of the world document heritage .

Life

family

Johann Heinrich Büttner was a brother-in-law of Christoph Chappuzeau , who often corresponded with Leibniz , the secret secretary of the last sovereign residing in Celle, Georg Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Samuel Chappuzeau was Büttner's son-in-law.

Career

Crests of the Private -Geschlechtes Groen Hagen ;
Illustration in the Genealogiae or Tribe and Sex Register ... , 1704

Head guide

Sülfmeister with head barrel

Burning the head barrel

Johann Heinrich Büttner, abbreviated JHB, was a student at the Johanneum in Lüneburg and was sponsored by the mayor Brand Ludolf von Stoetteroggen . Büttner later studied at the University of Leipzig .

On November 14, 1694 Büttner took over the duties of the cantor at the Johanniskirche in Lüneburg. He later worked as protonotary of the city council, from July 22, 1709 as first city secretary and from 1740 as council secretary and librarian.

Büttner's "Genealogiae or family and genealogical registers of the noble Lüneburg noble patrician families ", printed in folio in 1704 at the expense of the knighthood , became an important source for the genealogy of old Hanoverian and Mecklenburg noble families , for example those v. Dassel , v. Laffert , v. Witzendorff and others. In addition, it contains texts and images on the cultural history of the Sülzjunker 's Köpenfahren . The images were reissued in the 19th century by the Lüneburger Altertumsverein.

In the course of his life he collected innumerable documents , "on the accumulated material of which the documentary history is partly based". After his death, some of Büttner's writings came under the hammer . But the majority of his collections were not scattered all over the world - as was the case with Gebhardi and Manecke - but initially carefully kept together. Part of the Büttner collection went to Hanover in 1746 to the Royal Library there, a predecessor of today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, the Lower Saxony State Library. Another part went to the Hannover City Archives .

The part of the collection related to Lüneburg went to the Lüneburg City Archives . It was there that the "much-awaited, print-ready documented history of the Diocese of Verden " , which was lost as early as the 18th century, was suspected.

In 1706 Büttner wrote two handwritten letters to Leibniz.

The burial place for Johann Heinrich Büttner was the St. Nicolai Church in Lüneburg .

Fonts

• Historia Verdensis, sigilliset diplomatis illustrata , long lost history of the Diocese of Verden
• Genealogiae or stem and gender registers of the most distinguished Lüneburg noble patrician families, some of which existed, some of which went out several and many years ago. From old true documentis and monumentis / searched together, written in neat tables, and handed over to the print by Johan Henrico Büttner, Cantore zu St. Johan. in Lüneburg , printed in the Kelpische Buchdruckerey by Georg Friedrich Schultzen, 1704; Digitized from the TU Braunschweig
• Historical and genealogical explanation of the most distinguished Asian and African empires, authored and brought to light in a number of stem tables , 12 sheets, 1712, microfilm at the University and State Library of Düsseldorf

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers , Volume 1 (1823) , P. 317; Digitized version of the State and University Library Bremen
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 18 (1883), p. 794
• Rudolf Eckart : Lexicon of Lower Saxony writers from the oldest times to the present . Osterwieck 1891, pp. 43-44; Digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• JW Büttner: Life and work of the Lüneburg historian Johann Heinrich Büttner (1666–1745) , in: Lüneburger Blätter , Doppelband 7/8, 1957, pp. 101–116

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Büttner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Information from the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Krause:  Büttner, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 661 f.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} o. V .: Büttner, Johann Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 7, 2005, last accessed on February 22, 2020)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Büttner, Johann Heinrich (April 30, 1746) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition on the leibniz.uni-goettingen.de page
5. ↑ Chappuzeau, Christophe (March 11, 1734) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition on the website of the University of Göttingen
6. ↑ Information about the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog