Johannes Choinan

Johannes Choinan ( Lower Sorbian Jan Chojnan ; born August 24, 1616 in Petershain , † 1664 in Lübbenau ) was a Sorbian linguist and Protestant pastor. He wrote the oldest surviving Lower Sorbian grammar and is a co-founder of the written Sorbian language .

In the middle of the 17th century, Choinan worked as a Protestant pastor at the village church of Zerkwitz . Both Sorbian and German members belonged to the community. On the basis of the Cottbus dialect, Choinan developed a Lower Sorbian grammar, which he completed in 1650, but which remained unprinted. Choinan first worked with the means of language comparison .

A dedication in a baptismal bowl from 1650, which is in the village church of Zerkwitz, commemorates him. In today Lübbenau belonging Zerkwitz also a street named after him as John Choinan Street.

literature

• Samuel Grosser : Lusatian highlights. Part 4, David Richter, Leipzig and Budißin 1714, p. 179 ( digitized version )
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Compendioses learned lexicon. 2nd edition, Volume 1, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1726, Sp. 630, ( digitized version ); 3rd edition, 1733, column 707 ( digitized version )
• Jakob Christoph Iselin : Newly increased historical and geographic general lexicon . Supplement, Volume 2, Johannes Christ, Basel 1742, p. 682 ( digitized version )
• Johann Daniel Schulze (editor): First attempt at a complete list of Lower Lusatian writers and artists since the Reformation. Driemel, Lübben 1820, p. 16 ( digitized version )
• Ján Kollár : Wýklad čili Přjmětky a Wyswětliwky ku Sláwy Dceře. Pest 1832, pp. 340–341 ( digitized version )
• M. Hórnig : Žiwjenjopisne listki. In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje . Volume 11, Maćica Serbska, Budyšin 1858, pp. 47–48 ( digitized version )
• Ján Kollár : Spisy. Volume 2, Kober, Prague 1862, pp. 319–320 ( digitized version )
• M. Hórnig : Jan Chojnan, jeho rukopis a delnjoserbske słowa w nim [Johann Choinan, his handwriting and the Lower Sorbian words in it]. In: Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje. Volume 39 (recte 29), Maćica Serbska, Budyšin 1876, pp. 21–49 ( digitized version )
• Otto Fischer: Evangelical pastor's book for the Mark Brandenburg. Volume 2: List of clergymen in alphabetical order. Mittler, Berlin 1941, p. 122
• Jan Choijnan. The first grammars and the first dictionary. In: 400 years of Sorbian literature. VEB Verlag Domowina, Bautzen 1960, p. 3
• Frido Mětšk : The Kurmärkisch-Wendish district. A contribution to the history of the territories Bärwalde, Beeskow, Storkow, Teupitz and Zossen with special consideration of the 16th to 18th centuries (= series of publications of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, Volume 24). VEB Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1965, pp. 118, 131
• Serbski biografiski słownik. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1970, pp. 52–53
• History of the Sorbs. Volume 1: From the beginning to 1789. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1977, p. 239
• Frido Mětšk : Chojnan, Jan. In: Nowy biografiski słownik. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1984, p. 209
• Joachim Berger (text) and Christoph Lang (photos): Mark Brandenburg, liberal & rebellious. Read hiking book. Volume 1: South and West. Goebel Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-924591-06-7 , p. 126
• Ernst Eichler (editor): Slavic Studies in Germany from the Beginnings to 1945. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, ISBN 3-7420-1538-9 , p. 86
• Konrad Schröder: Biographical and bibliographical lexicon of foreign language teachers in German-speaking countries. Late Middle Ages to 1800. Volume 5: Supplements and supplements. Letters A to K (= Augsburger I & I-Schriften, Volume 73). University of Augsburg, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-923549-56-3 , p. 161
• Peter Walther (editor): Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg. Volume 2: A historical dictionary of writers. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X , pp. 58, 166, 168

Web links

• CHOINANUS / CHOJNA, Johannes in the Eichbaum ancestral list, No. 1600 ( memento from July 2, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). (First published in: Hessische Ahnenlisten (HAL). Volume 5, Issue 4, 2005)