Johann Wilhelm Bernhard von Hymmen

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Johann Wilhelm Bernhard Hymmen , from 1786 von Hymmen (* 1725 in Schwelm , Westphalia ; † April 9, 1787 probably in Berlin ) was a Prussian lawyer , author and poet from the Rhenish family Hymmen .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Bernhard von Hymmen
(copper engraving by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), original in the New York Public Library)

Hymmen studied law at the Universities of Duisburg and Halle . In 1769 he entered the Berlin Chamber of Commerce as a trainee lawyer , where he was also a member of the chamber judge and later became a secret judge at the higher appellate senate of the chamber court.

In his spare time he worked as a poet and author of legal literature. With the publication of his “Contributions to Legal Literature in the Prussian States” (1775–1787) and the “Repertory on the Contributions of Legal Literature in the Prussian States” (1790) he earned high merits in the Prussian judiciary.

On January 2, 1772 he joined the Strict Observance , but was soon dissatisfied with this "void temple", "demanded real things" and then turned to the Order of the Gold and Rosicrucians , which is located within the Masonic lodges of the Great National Mother Lodge "To the three globes" as the "Secret Superiors" and thus as the official successor organization of the Strict Observance. These Masonic lodges served them as a financial and personal basis, because half of these Masons were also members of the Rosicrucians. In Berlin they formed six circles of around nine people, in which the orthodox opponents of the rationalistic Enlightenment had gathered since the 1770s and were headed by a circle director. Hymmen was one of them and headed the Hilary Circle , which only existed for a short time. For a long time he was also one of the advisors to Prince Friedrich August von Braunschweig .

In 1776, Hymmen was a member of the convention in Wiesbaden and believed in Gottlieb Freiherr von Gugomos ' wisdom.

At least in the years 1772 to 1782 he corresponded several times with his poet colleague Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719–1803) and shortly before his death with the poet Johann Benjamin Michaelis (1746–1772), who died young .

Hymmen was elevated to the Prussian nobility on October 2, 1786 in Berlin as a Privy Councilor of Justice at the Higher Appellation Senate of the Berlin Court of Appeal . His grandson was the Prussian district administrator Eberhard von Hymmen .

Works (selection)

  • Crata Repoa or initiation into the ancient secret society of Egyptian priests. Editors: Karl Friedrich Koeppen and Johann Wilhelm Bernhard Hymmen, 1770.
  • Seven new Freymäurer songs. Decker publishing house , Berlin 1776.
  • New Freymäurer songs with attached Freymäurer health. Decker publishing house, Berlin 1772.
  • Freymäurer library. Editor: Johann Alexander Hemmann u. Johann Wilhelm Bernhard von Hymmen, parts 1–6 in 2 volumes, Verlag Christian Gottfried Schöne, 1782–1793.
  • Forty Freymäurerlieder , set to music by Naumann, 2nd edition, Verlag Himburg, Berlin 1784.
  • Cinq chansons maçonniques. In: Collection of New Masonic Speeches. Decker publishing house, Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. a b General Manual of Freemasonry. Lenning's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Published by the Association of German Freemasons. Max Hesse's publishing house, Leipzig 1900.

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