Johann Theodor Heinson

Johann Theodor Heinson FRS, also Heinsson (born July 5, 1663 in Hanover , † September 22, 1726 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg.

Life

Johann Theodor Heinson was a son of the Hanoverian court architect Dietrich Heinson and his wife Elisabeth Margaretha, née. Mensing.) He attended the town school in Hanover and studied from 1685 Protestant Theology at the University of Helmstedt , where, after a defense chaired by Johann Barthold Niemeier to Magister graduated. In addition to his theological studies, he has had a special interest in mathematics and astronomy since his school days .

In 1690 he became the teacher and court master of the two younger princes in Hanover, Christian Heinrich (1671–1703) and Ernst August (1674–1728). With them he went on a grand tour that took them to Holland , Brabant and England . The prince's protégés and letters of recommendation from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz made diverse academic and diplomatic contacts possible. In The Hague he met Christiaan Huygens , in Leiden Friedrich Spanheim ; in Cambridge he met Isaac Newton , in London he took classes in the oriental languages with Johann Esdras Edzardi (1662-1713). At the suggestion of its President, the diplomat Sir Robert Southwell, he was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society on November 30, 1692 .

In 1694 he returned to Hanover. In the following year he became pastor in Melle in the bishopric of Osnabrück , whose sovereign Ernst August was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück. In 1698 Count Christian Eberhard appointed him superintendent and court preacher in Aurich . When in 1711 the verdict against the main pastor Christian Krumbholtz , who had been arrested and deposed for incitement in 1708, finally became final, the choice fell on Johann Theodor Heinson as his successor at the main church Sankt Petri . On December 26, 1712 he received his theological doctorate from the University of Helmstedt.

Heinson was a representative of a somewhat milder Lutheran Orthodoxy and brought more calm to church and city life. In addition, in 1712, in the so-called main recession, the council and the citizenry agreed on a fundamental constitutional reform. On October 31, 1717, he gave the sermon for the 200th anniversary of the Reformation. On September 29, 1725 he consecrated the new main altar of the Petrikirche, which was destroyed with the whole church in the Hamburg fire in 1842.

He was married to Maria Elisabeth, born in 1699. from Münnich . Of the couple's children, Adolf Christian (1699–) became a lawyer in Hamburg.

His decayed extensive library (the catalog comprises 580 pages) was auctioned in July 1727.

Works

Augusta Ernestorum Gloria / Quam, In Ernestis, Ducibus Brunsvico-Lyneburgicis, Conspicuam, Et In ... Ernesto Augusto, Episcopo Osnabruggensi, Duce Brunsvicensi ac Lyneburgensi ... Eminentissimam, In Illustris Academiae Iuliae Magno Iuleo Anno M.DC.XC. the XXVII. Febr. Oratione publice habita venerabatur Johannes Theodorus Heinson, S. Theol. Stud. Hannoveranus. Helmstedt: Hamm 1690 ( digitized version )
De Nominibus Et Essentia Dei Disputatio Philosophica. Helmstedt: Hamm 1690
De Paradiso Eiusque Amissione Et Custodia. Helmstedt: Hamm 1698 ( digitized version )
Script-moderate theological consideration, about a new prayer formula: Have mercy, Lord, on those who resist your pity ... Oldenburg: Adler 1702
The light evening of the world that followed the unlit day, which the good and merciful God after his great mercy Bey of the wholesome and blessed Reformation D. Martini Lutheri, in turn, brought forth with power and on the second Lutheran jubilee on October 31st. Anno 1717 ... From Zachariæ XIV. Cap. the 6th and 7th verse Johannes Theodorus Heinson, SS. Th. D. Past. Showed his Hertz very dearest Petro-Pauline congregation in Hamburg. Petro-Paulin. Scholarcha & Societat. Reg. Anglican. Membrane Hamburg: The time of love in 1718 ( digitized version )
Most insubordinate address to a Highly Serene Head in the H. Roman Empire, the Theological Bedencken projected the highly mentioned illustrious person over the 15th, and the 9 Octobris Anno 1721. points made known to Regensburg concerning the Church Association ... are graciously desired hat / by Johanne Theodoro Heinson, SS. Theol. D. Past ... who added an appendix to his moderate concern, namely a Calvinist ABC ... that you can look up immediately ... how the Reformed gentlemen ... treated us Evangelical Lutherans ... Hamburg: Piscator 1721 ( digitized version ), 2nd edition 1722 ( digitized version )
The exposed patriot, or: The Upper Saxon transformed from a patriot into a pasquinum. [Hamburg] 1724 ( digitized version )
The altar of God at Bethel: presented in the local Petrinian house of God when on the holy Michaëlis feast day in 1725 ... a new and very precious altar or communion table ... was inaugurated, to which ... this church has given ... Mr. Johann Hanker, ... sales and trading gentleman here himself. / Promoted for printing by Johanne Theodoro Heinson, der Heil. Schrifft D., Past. Petrino & Scholarcha ... Hamburg: Piscator 1726 ( digitized version )

literature

Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 3, Günther - Kleye, Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 156 No. 1505
Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 50 No. 15

Web links

Commons : Johann Theodor Heinson - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Stages of life essentially according to Schröder (Lit.
↑ Heinson; Johann Theodor (1666 - 1726) in the Fellows of the Royal Society database , accessed on May 29, 2020
↑ See the congratulatory pamphlet In Nuptias Viri Maxime Reverendi Et Amplissimi Johannis Theodori Heinsonii S. Theologiae Doctoris Serenissimo Fridiorum Principi A Consiliis Ecclesiasticis ... Et Generosissimae Atque Laudatissimae Virginis Mariae Elisabethae Generosissimi Domini Johannis Didericitati A Münestnatisi Rega in Sacrae Majesti Provincialis Filiae. [Sl], [1699] ( digitized version )
↑ To him see Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 3, Günther - Kleye, Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 156 No. 1504
↑ Catalogus Bibliothecae Heinsonianæ seu Suppellex Librorum maximam partem Theologico- Historico-Philologico-Mathemati Corum, Quos BD Jo. Theodorus Heinsonius Antistes ad D. Petri Ædem Primarius & Soc. Reg. Angl. Socius ... collegit, & qui Hamburgi the VII July & seqq. Publicæ Auctionis Ritu Distrahentur. Hamburgi: Benekius [1727] ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Krumbholtz	Chief Pastor to St. Petri in Hamburg 1711 - 1626	Johann Georg Palm

personal data
SURNAME	Heinson, Johann Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heinsson, Johann Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1726
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Stages of life essentially according to Schröder (Lit.

[2] Heinson; Johann Theodor (1666 - 1726) in the Fellows of the Royal Society database , accessed on May 29, 2020

[3] See the congratulatory pamphlet In Nuptias Viri Maxime Reverendi Et Amplissimi Johannis Theodori Heinsonii S. Theologiae Doctoris Serenissimo Fridiorum Principi A Consiliis Ecclesiasticis ... Et Generosissimae Atque Laudatissimae Virginis Mariae Elisabethae Generosissimi Domini Johannis Didericitati A Münestnatisi Rega in Sacrae Majesti Provincialis Filiae. [Sl], [1699] ( digitized version )

[4] To him see Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 3, Günther - Kleye, Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 156 No. 1504

[5] Catalogus Bibliothecae Heinsonianæ seu Suppellex Librorum maximam partem Theologico- Historico-Philologico-Mathemati Corum, Quos BD Jo. Theodorus Heinsonius Antistes ad D. Petri Ædem Primarius & Soc. Reg. Angl. Socius ... collegit, & qui Hamburgi the VII July & seqq. Publicæ Auctionis Ritu Distrahentur. Hamburgi: Benekius [1727] ( digitized version )