Johann Henrich Reitz

Johann Henrich Reitz (* 1665 in Oberdiebach ; † November 25, 1720 in Wesel ) was a German pietistic writer and Bible translator.

Live and act

Reitz was influenced by Theodor Undereyck while studying in Bremen . From 1681 he worked as a reformed pastor in Freinsheim near Dürkheim. The French war riots drove him out like other Reformed people, and finally he got to Braunfels. In 1697 he was supposed to convert Balthasar Christoph Klopfer, who was captured on the Greifenstein , but, like Heinrich Horch , sided with this separatist enthusiast. Reitz was therefore expelled from the country and went to Frankfurt am Main, in 1699 to Herborn and Eschwege, where he worked with Heinrich Horch and Samuel Heinrich Königworked together. In 1703 he published a new translation of the New Testament. He spent the last years of his life in Wesel, where he ran a private school and wrote some papers. He emphasized the inner life of faith and rebirth .

Fonts

• Moses et Aaron seu civiles et ecclesiastici ritus Hebraeorum (translated from the English by Thomas Goodwin), Bremen, 1679
• A short term of suffering, teaching and behavior. Offenbach 1698
• Kurtzer lecture On the righteousness that we have outside and in JEHOVAH through faith , Offenbach, 1701
• The New Testament of Our Lords Jesus Christ Germanized for the new reason , Offenbach, 1703
• For image of the wholesome words of faith and love , Büdingen, 1705
• Reyse to Jerusalem and the land of Canaan , Osnabrück, 1714
• History of the re-bored / Or examples of godly / so known - and named - as unknown - and unnamed Christians [...]. Johann Jacob Haug, Berlenburg / Idstein, 1717–1730.

Reprint: History of the re-drills. Complete edition of the first print of all 7 parts of the Pietist collective biography (1698-1745) with a work history appendix of the variants and additions from the later editions. Edited by Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Tübingen: Niemeyer 1982 (German reprints: Series: Barock; 29) ISBN 3-484-16029-2

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno:  Reitz, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 170-172.
• Hans-Jürgen Schrader: Literature production and book market of radical Pietism. Johann Henrich Reitz '"History of the re-drilled" and their historical context , Göttingen, 1989: digitized
• Reinhard Breymayer (arrangement): Reitz, Johann Henrich 1655-1720. In: Heiner Schmidt [main edit. and Hrsg.]: Sources encyclopedia for the history of German literature. Bibliography of Studies on German Literary History. Personal and individual work bibliographies of international secondary literature 1945-1990 on German literature from the beginnings to the present. Bibliographical collaboration by Günter Albrecht, [...], Reinhard Breymayer, [...], vol. 25. (Duisburg :) Verlag für Pädagogischedokumentation, 2000, pp. 465–468.
• Douglas H. Shantz: Back to the Sources: Gottfried Arnold, Johann Henrich Reitz and the Distinctive Program and Practice of Pietist Historical Writing . In: C. Arnold Snyder (ed.): Commoners and Community: Essays in Honor of Werner O. Packull . Kitchener 2002. pp. 75-99.
• Ulrich Weiß, “[…] uf such pietists, the gentlemen clergy to keep a watchful eye.” The Siegen episode of Johann Henrich Reitz 1703/4 . In: Siegener contributions. Yearbook for Regional History, Vol. 8 (2003), pp. 37-88.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Henrich Reitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Johann Henrich Reitz in VD 17 .