Johann Michael Heineccius
Johann Michael Heineccius (Latinized from Heinecke ; born December 14, 1674 in Eisenberg (Thuringia) ; † September 11, 1722 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Lutheran theologian, historian, sealologist and spiritual poet.
Life
Johann Michael Heineccius was a son of the teacher Johann Michael Heinecke . His younger brother was the later legal scholar Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (1681–1741), who lived with Johann Michael in Goslar for a few years after his father's death ; there was this, after studying in Jena , Giessen and Helmstedt , 1698-1708 Deacon (second ordained preacher) at St. Peter and Paul .
In 1709 Heineccius was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1708 he became pastor at St. Ulrich in Halle, at the latest in 1711 at the Marktkirche , as well as a scholarch and grammar school teacher and consistorial councilor of the Duchy of Magdeburg administered by Prussia . Against the bitter resistance of August Hermann Francke and Carl Hildebrand von Canstein , who accused him of immoral lifestyle, the pursuit of profit, yes "atheism ... in the heart", he was appointed Vice General Superintendent of the Duchy of Magdeburg in 1720 as Joachim Justus Breithaupt's representative .
Johann Burckhardt Mencke wrote the Alexandrian for a portrait of Heineccius in a work published in 1711 :
“Here HEINECCIUS is engraved in copper,
who is himself the image of the most beautiful virtue;
If you want to have a conterfait of rare wisdom,
it will show itself to the one who reads his writings. "
Johann Michael Heineccius began intensive historical research and publication in Goslar, where he was one of the first to evaluate the historical seals of ecclesiastical and secular bodies as sources. Therefore, he is considered to be the "founder of the scientific seal customer". He was also active as a lyricist for church music. Possibly the texts come from Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas Christians, etch this day and I had a lot of distress from his pen. He campaigned resolutely for Bach to succeed Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, who died in 1712, at the Liebfrauenkirche , which did not happen because Bach canceled.
Web links
- Jakob Franck : Article Heineccius, Johann Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Volume 11, Leipzig 1880, p. 363
- Digitized works by and about Johann Michael Heineccius ( German Digital Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB ; Book title 1706
- ↑ a b DNB
- ↑ Title of the book 1711
- ↑ Correspondence in April 1718
- ↑ brothers Heineccius (stadt-eisenberg.de)
- ↑ Bach Cantatas website , English
- ^ Christoph Wolff : Johann Sebastian Bach . Frankfurt, 2nd edition 2000, pp. 165-168
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Wolfgang Melchior Stisser |
Senior Pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women 1709–1722 |
Johann Georg Franck |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heineccius, Johann Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinecke, Johann Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian, historian and sphragistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1674 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenberg (Thuringia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1722 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |