Joseph Sneezes

Johann Heinrich Joseph Niesert (born November 27, 1766 in Münster , † June 14, 1841 in Velen ) was a German Catholic clergyman, manuscript and seal collector, historian and numismatist. After Nikolaus Kindlinger, he is a co-founder of Westphalian historical research.

Life

He was born as the eldest child of coppersmith Bernhard Joseph Niesert and, after passing his exams with distinction, ordained a Catholic priest on September 20, 1790 . In 1791 he took up a position as a chaplain in Drensteinfurt . On January 19, 1796, he accepted the position of court master and educator with Baron Paul Joseph von Landsberg-Velen on Velen. After great personal difficulties with his employer, he prevailed when it came to filling the pastor's position in Velen in 1804.

At that time, Niesert was described by his former chaplain Weidlich as domineering and opinionated, who was constantly having "trouble and turmoil" with his congregation, but who had no personal contact. Very soon there was a falling out between the congregation and the new pastor: Without the congregation's consent, Niesert would have broken the old church bells and ordered new ones. The largest of the new bells was inscribed: ... when Joseph Niesert was pastor in Velen . He raised the cost of 2200 thalers by selling the church forest to a timber merchant. There was a legal dispute between pastor and parish, which could only be settled after years.

According to Kaplan Weidlich, Niesert closed himself in front of his congregation with his “kitchen dragon”. This left him time for his real passion: collecting books, documents, manuscripts and other antiquities. He processed the collected material scientifically and made it available to the public. In addition to his position as pastor and court master in Velen, his income was secured as a beneficiary of the abolished cathedral monastery Paderborn and vicar of St. Aegidius in Münster. He was a member of the society Pro excolendo jure patrio zu Groningen and was particularly active in the Society for the History and Archeology of Westphalia . He also showed interest in archaeological questions.

estate

On May 20, 1841, Joseph Niesert drew up his will. In it he bequeathed all of the documents he copied about the rule of Gemen and Raesfeld to Count Landsberg. A complete and instructive catalog of his literary art estate was to be printed and the estate to be auctioned. According to the catalog, Joseph Niesert left behind: 16,366 volumes of books; 322 manuscripts; 600 documents and bundles of documents; 8,432 coins, many of them in gold and silver, including 43 silver coins from the time of Emperor Antoninus Pius (138–161), 400 woodcuts; 800 copperplate engravings; 32 Roman and Germanic sanctuaries, 450 seals, 1261 cast seals; 450 casts of the learned seal; 500 unsorted sealed casts; 5,000 coats of arms; 2,300 casts of ancient gems; two cabinets with a collection of seashells; two cabinets with a mineral collection and a herbarium.

From his book collection there are today about 50 incunabula in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, in the British Library London and the Royal Library Albert I Brussels, in another library in Brussels, others are in the University Library of Münster (28 from the "Bibliotheca Paulina" and others from the Collectio Erhard). Books from his collection still appear on the art market today.

Works (selection)

With his large library and collections, he was able to draw on the full in his scientific work. He published a large number of essays and wrote over thirty books during his life. It is not surprising that the book collector also dealt with the history of book printing. From his coin collection his "Contributions to the coin history of the former Hochstift Münster from the earliest times to the secularization of the same", Coesfeld 1838. On the first pages of the book he lists all the books on coin studies that were in his possession at the time of going to print found.

• Robert Simson: Mathias Reder (translator), JH Joseph Niesert (ed.): The six first books, along with the eleventh and twelfth of the elements of Euclids. With the improvement of the errors by which Theon and others have distorted these books and the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry , Volume 2. Critical comments and additions, both about the deviations of this edition from the Greek texts and their causes, as well as about some special elements of the plane and spherical trigonometry , 1806
• Selectae quaedam propositiones geometricae methodo analytica veterun solutae , 1812
• The right of the court to redeem: an improved copy from an authentic copy with explanatory notes and an introduction about the courtly circumstances; a contribution to the history of the Westphalian farm , 1818
• Contributions to a Münster document book from patriotic archives , Dept. 1 and 2, Münster 1823 Google , Google
• Münster collection of documents,
  • Volume 1: Documents on the history of the Münsterischen Wiedertaufer , Coesfeld 1826, Google
  • Volume 2: which documents v. J. 800-1280, and is provided with a complete register , Coesfeld 1827, Google
  • Volume 3: Documents about the foundation of a city, city rights, the guild system and the Hanseatic League: With an imprint of a seal , Coesfeld 1829
  • Volume 4: 1. Documents on synodal and archdeaconal objects. 2. over several pens from the XII. 3rd century over bailiffs of several pens. 4. via the Bailiwick of Borchost Monastery. 5. About the Bailiwick of Breden Monastery , Coesfeld 1832, Google
  • Volume 5: in two sections - 1. On the rule of Steinford 2 . Ueber Ottenstein, Coesfeld 1834, Google
  • Volume 6: which I. the continuation of the documents about the Steinford rule up to the comparison with Münster 1716, II. Documents about the Gronau, and an addendum zVB , Coesfeld 1835, Google
  • Volume 7: in three sections: I. About synodal and archdeaconal objects (page 1-133.) II. 1. Capitulations and granted privileges of Muenster bishops. 2. On the postulation of the young Duke Johann Wilhelm von Jülich, Cleve (page 134-259.) III. About the cathedral chapter. 1. Kirchl. Constitution. Statutes, prebend beings, obediences, fraternities, old customs and habits (pages 259-435.) 2. Lawful things, regalia, goods. (Pages 435-542.) 3. Excerpts from the Liber reddituum and Rotgeri (Pages 542-611.) Along with a register , Coesfeld 1837, Google
• Contributions to the coinage of the former bishopric of Münster: from the oldest time to the secularization of the same: with historical and critical remarks , Volume 1: Coesfeld 1838, Google
• Codex diplomaticus Steinfordiensis or document collection on the history of the Steinford rule , 2 volumes, Coesfeld 1834, Google , Google
• Contributions to the history of printing in Münster: or directory of the books printed in Münster from 1486 to 1700 , 1828, Google
• Contributions to the book printer history of Münster: Continued contributions to a book printer history of Münster , 1834
• Literary message about the first Low German Bible printed in Cologne , Coesfeld 1825, Google
• Proof of the originality of the text of H. Augustinus De arte praedicundi , printed by Mentelin before 1466 , 1825
• Strange witch trial against the merchant G. Köbbing zu Coesfeld in 1632, fully communicated from the original acts and with a preface , 1827
• About the establishment of the Cistercian nunnery Marienborn and relocation of the same to Coesfeld: a historical study Coesfeld 1830
• Supplements, additions and corrections to the First Abth. the contributions to the coinage of the former monastery of Münster etc. , 1840
• Catalogus ... bibliothecae pastoris Niesert ... quae ... vendetur , 1842 (copy. University of Oxford)

literature

• Emil Kubisch: Pastor Joseph Niesert in Velen. A scholar and collector's life in the late Romantic period in the Münsterland. In: Westphalian magazine . Vol. 117, pp. 3-48 .
• Bernhard Köster: Joseph Niesert, the editor of the first Haltern Heimatbuch . In: Haltern Yearbook 1993 ( Haltern 1992)

Web links

• Writings by Niesert in the Opac of the SB Berlin PK
• Collections by Niesert in the Münster city archive
• Sneezes side of the Heimatverein Haltern

Individual evidence

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