Johann Wendelin Thierry

Johann Wendelin Thierry (born November 9, 1730 in Deidesheim , † February 10, 1807 in Bruchsal ) was a German senior councilor at the Vice-Cathedral in Bruchsal and the author of a book on the history of the bishops of Speyer .

family

His father's name was Paul Thyri and came from Edesheim , which, like Deidesheim, belonged to the Speyer monastery at that time . His mother was the daughter of Maria Jakobäa Deidesheimer Under mayor Jerome Schmitt. The parents married in 1727 and settled in Deidesheim. His maternal uncle, Wilhelm Schmitt († 1784), was a town clerk in Deidesheim; his tombstone is still preserved today in the Deidesheim cemetery . His paternal uncle, who lived in Edesheim, was Jakob Thyri; his son, the philosopher Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach (1723–1789), was a cousin of Johann Wendelin Thierry.

At the age of 29 he married Magdalena Bader († 1808), a daughter of the hospital administrator Wilhelm Bader, in Deidesheim ; the two had several children together.

The traditional spelling of the family name is: In the parish in Edesheim Dirre (1708), Tyrri (1723), Tirri and Tyrre (1756); Thyry (1727) and Tirry (1730 and 1759) in Deidesheim church registers, as well as Thierry and Thierri (1797 and 1807) in Bruchsal .

Life

Thierry was born on November 9, 1730, the second of eight children. At the age of 17 he was registered as Wendelinus Thyrri, Deidesheimensis, at the University of Fulda . It is not known whether he studied at other universities. After completing his studies, he was a lawyer and was appointed on June 1, 1759 by the Speyer prince-bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten zum Stolzenberg to the government tax of the Speyer vicariate. On January 24, 1762 he moved up to the Oberamtsrat and Ausfaut at the Vizedomamt Bruchsal; he held this position until his retirement. During his time in the state capital Bruchsal, he wrote his work "Bruchsaler Chronik". After 1770 he was given the title of " Hofrat ". Thierry died on February 10, 1807 at the age of 76, after having witnessed the fall of the Speyer bishopric, which was dissolved and secularized. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter in Bruchsal.

Bruchsal Chronicle

Thierry's only larger font is entitled "Bruchsaler Chronik"; the name is not entirely appropriate, because it dealt essentially with the history of the Speyer bishops. The work is a continuation of Philipp Simonis 'work "Historical Description of All Bishops of Speyr", which begins with the accession of Eberhard von Dienheim in 1581, ie at the time when Simonis' chronicle ends. Thierry's work ends with the death of August von Limburg-Stirum and the assumption of office of the last Speyer prince-bishop Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf in 1797.

Thierry's main focus in his elaboration was on the part of the Speyerer Hochstift on the right bank of the Rhine, but also the part on the left bank of the Rhine, to which his hometown Deidesheim belonged, with which he remained closely connected, for example with explanations on viticulture and vintages.

Thierry's work was not printed, probably because of the abrupt change of time that occurred shortly before his death. The manuscript came from Thierry's estate to the cellar of the Bruchsal town hall, where it remained hidden for over 100 years and was rediscovered in 1912 by Hans Rott when he was working on the art monuments in the Bruchsal area. Rott quoted only briefly from Thierry's work and erroneously named Franz Josef Thirry, the author's son, as the author. It was not until Otto B. Roegele recognized the importance of Thierry's work in 1948 and published a mostly verbatim copy of it in the journal for the history of the Upper Rhine , correcting Thierry's first name.

literature

• Arnold Siben : Councilor Wendelin Thirry from Deidesheim . In: Palatinate home . No. 2 , 1951, p. 107-108 .
• Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 708 .

Web links

• Johann Wendelin Thierry in the Baden-Württemberg personal database