Johann Henrich von Seelen

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Johann Henrich von Seelen, portrait in the Lübeck city library

Johann Henrich von Seelen (also Heinrich or Hinrich : * August 8, 1687 in Assel ; † October 22, 1762 in Lübeck ) was a German theologian and educator.

Life

Von Seelen came from a family who had moved from the Netherlands to northern Germany in the 16th century . His father Erich Zacharias von Seelen was a pastor in Assel, but died in 1698. Johann Henrich attended the Athenaeum grammar school in Stade . When he left, his first work appeared in 1711: Stada litterata , a Stade lexicon of scholars.

In the same year he was enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where he studied theology, philosophy and oriental languages. As early as 1713 he was appointed deputy principal at the grammar school in Flensburg and two years later as principal at his home school, the grammar school in Stade.

At the end of 1717 he was the successor of Enoch Schwante the Elder. J. was elected rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck and was introduced to his office in February 1718 by superintendent Georg Heinrich Götze . Here he remained until shortly before his death in 1762, where he even a call to Göttingen in founding the local university refused. In 1725 he received the academic degree of a Baccalaureus at the University of Rostock .

In Flensburg he married Ursula Koch, who died in Lübeck in 1742. He then married Margaretha Dorothea zum Felde in 1746 († May 11, 1771 in Lübeck). The first marriage resulted in 5 sons and a daughter. One of the sons, Erich Simon Henrich von Seelen (born October 4, 1717 in Stade) was elected sub-rector of the Katharineum in 1754 , but died before he took office († February 11, 1755 in Leipzig ).

Epitaph von Seelens in the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck

Johann Henrich von Seelen was buried in the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck , where his family placed an impressive epitaph for him in the south aisle.

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Von Seelen was extremely productive as a writer. A list of writings lists 419 printed writings that deal with theological and Orientalist as well as educational, local history, biographical, numismatic and even alchemical topics.

As a teacher he reformed the teaching system in the Katharineum and brought the school to a new level. He was the first to describe the history of the school.

He stayed out of the theological quarrels of his time. In 1722 he wrote in a letter to Valentin Ernst Löscher that he was only interested in it as a historian with no passion .

Together with Samuel Gerhard von Melle and Heinrich Scharbau , he published a scientific journal Bibliotheca Lubecensis , which appeared in twelve volumes from 1725 to 1732, and was also involved in the successor Nova Bibliotheca Lubecensis (eight volumes from 1753 to 1757).

Works

Title page of the 1st volume of the Athenae Lubecenses
  • Stada litterata . Stade 1711
  • Athenae Lubecenses . Petrus Boeckmann, Lübeck
Volume 1, 1719 ( digitized version )
Volume 2, 1720 ( digitized version )
Volume 3, 1721 ( digitized version )
Volume 4, 1722 ( digitized version )
  • Selecta Litteraria Lübeck: Petrus Boeckmann 1726
( Digitized version )
Digitized copy of the copy from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Meditationes Exegetica . Volume 1-3. Lübeck 1730-1737
  • Historia Iacobitarum seu Coptorum… Jonas Schmidt, Lübeck 1733
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Miscellanea, quibus commentationes varii argumenti, sacri, philologici, historici, philosophici, antiquarii, literarii, continentur. Schmid, Lübeck 1734
Digitized copy of the copy in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (from the library of Duke Friedrich August (Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Oels) )
  • Varia Poetica . Lübeck 1740
  • News of the origin and progress of the printing press in ... Lübeck , Jonas Schmidt, Lübeck 1740 ( digitized version )
  • Stromata Lutheranea . Lübeck 1741
  • Bibliotheca Breitenaviana, sive Operum, librorum, scriptorum, ad omne literarum genus spectantium, editorum et ineditorum, quae… Christophorus Gensch a Breitenau… magno comparavit digessitque studio, catalogus. Praemissa est Memoria Breitenaviana. Green , Lübeck 1747 (catalog of the Christoph Gensch von Breitenau library )
Digitized copy from the Bodleian Library
  • Petri Vincentii de origine, incrementis et laudibus Lubecae elegia. Lübeck 1755
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Librorum eximiorum, scholarum titulo insignitorum, descriptorum collaudatorumque et ad rem scholasticam breviter accomodatorum ogdoas. Green, Lübeck 1755
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • (Ed.): Bibliotheca Lubecensis 1725–1732
1–4 ( digitized version )
5–8 ( digitized version )
9–12 ( digitized version )

Furthermore, in 1726 he published a preface to Christian von Schöneichs: Strange honorary memory of the Christ-praiseworthy life and death of the weyland wise and learned Lübeck child, Christian Henrich Heineken ... / ... from the truth-assiduous pen, faithful to his Weyland-been Teacher and carrier, designed impartially. In addition to a preface by Mr. Johann Henrich von Seelen. Kissner, Hamburg 1726.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich von Seelen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Henrich von Seelen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So after the Epitaph and Spies (lit.); not in 1688 , as often stated since Zedler
  2. ↑ Entry examen primum pro baccalaureatu Rostocker matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Complete text of the inscription with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 46 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
  5. ↑ Nova acta historico-ecclesiastica 39 (1765), pp. 961–998 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Digitalisat and slub Dresden, online
predecessor Office successor
Enoch Schwante the Younger Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck
1718 - 1762 		Johann Daniel Overbeck
personal data
SURNAME Seelen, Johann Henrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seelen, Johann Heinrich von; Seelen, Johann Hinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Assel, today Drochtersen
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1762
Place of death Lübeck