Joseph Wilhelmi

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Joseph Wilhelmi (* 1597 in Ansbach ; † July 15, 1652 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and poet .

Life

Joseph Wilhelmi was a son of the Ansbach court official Elias Wilhelmi, who died early. With the help of a scholarship from Margrave Christian Wilhelmi was able to attend and study at the Princely School in Heilsbronn Monastery . He graduated with a Magister and was crowned Poeta Laureate before 1631 . The rest of his life was strongly influenced by the events of the Thirty Years' War .

He received his first pastor's position in 1624 as a deacon (second pastor) at the Sankt-Petri-Kirche and inspector of the monasteries of St. Augustine and St. Maria Magdalena in Magdeburg . With the conquest and total devastation of the city on May 10th jul. / May 20, 1631 greg. he was wounded by imperial troops under Tilly and Pappenheim , but was able to flee to Hamburg . In Hamburg he found a job as a Wednesday preacher at the main church Sankt Jacobi .

Collegiate Church in Lübz

In 1634, Duchess Sophia appointed him to be the first preacher at the pen for poor widows ( Sophienstift ) in Lübz, which she founded in 1633 . As early as 1637 the war drove him back to Hamburg. Here he represented the main pastor and senior Severin Schlueter at his weekly sermons. In 1650, the governor of the Principality of Halberstadt , Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal, appointed him pastor of his then Mecklenburg estate, Stabenau (Stavenow, today part of Karstädt (Prignitz) ). However, he died two years later in Hamburg, where he had returned due to illness.

Since 1624 he was married to Magdalena, geb. Küselin, a daughter of the organist at St. Ulrich in Magdeburg Heinrich Küselin.

Wilhelmi's main work was the Latin-German edition of Oratio Rhytmica , published in Hamburg in 1633 , a medieval devotional poem which at the time was regarded as the work of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux , but is now ascribed to Arnulf von Löwen . His text is considered a template for Dietrich Buxtehude's setting Membra Jesu Nostri . In 1648 he published a German translation of the Meditationes sacrae by Johann Gerhard .

Works

In addition to numerous personal documents, he wrote:

  • The Mayestian Eternal Word / The Hertz Beloved Infant Jesus. Hamburg 1632
  • D. Bernhardi Oratio rhythmica: ad unum quodlibet membrorum Christi patientis, a cruce pendentis, affixi & confixi ... / Except from Latin. Translated into German language by Josephum Wilhelmum ... Magdeburg preacher ... Reims-Red: Devotions and prayers / on seven differentiated / of the fear sufferer / on the trunk of the Creutzes attached and spun out Lord Jesus Christ. Hamburg: Little Vines 1633
Digitized , Rostock University Library
  • Heptalogus Poenitentialis Davidicus: That is / The seven penance psalms of the prophetic king / of David / according to their order / as the 6th, 32nd, 38th, 51st, 102nd 143. Hamburg: Rebenlein 1634
Digitized , Rostock University Library
  • One and fifty witty devotions / for godly exercise and inheritance / very useful in the whole Christian world / Nunmehro ... from the Greek / Latin / and etzlich Teutschen / Old and Newen church teachers / from ... Johanne Gerhardo ... in Latin Language brought together / now in German poetry and verse / different types / translated. Hamburg 1648

literature

  • Wilhelmi (Joseph) , in: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 8: Westphalen - Zylius continued by Anton Heinrich Kellinghusenstraße, Hamburg 1883, pp 43 -45 No 4384th
  • Waldemar Kawerau: Josef Wilhelmis Spiritual Prayer. In: Geschichtsblätter für Stadt und Land Magdeburg 30 (1895), 329–348
  • John Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter 2006, p. 2256f. doi: 10.1515 / 9783110912746 , accessed via degruyter.com
  • Mario Müller: Wilhelmi, Joseph , in: German Literature Lexicon. 3rd, completely revised edition, Volume 32: Wiedmann - Willisen, Berlin: de Gruyter 2013, Sp. 608–612

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunilla Eschenbach: Dietrich Buxtehudes Membra Jesu Nostri in the context of Lutheran mystic reception. In: Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 88 (2004), pp. 41–54, here p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelmi, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1652
Place of death Hamburg