Jost Hoen

Jost Hoen (* around 1500 in Gelnhausen ; † June 6, 1569 in Dillenburg ) was a German master's degree , teacher and office advisor.

His father Konrad Hoen was a councilor. Jost Hoen married Margaretha Welcker from Diez in 1538 .

Life

Jost Hoen studied in Wittenberg from 1530 while Luther was still alive . Here he obtained the academic degree of a magister artium . After completing his studies, he worked as a high school master from July 25, 1535 - together with the sub-school master Magister Anton Stöver - at the Dillenburg Latin School, which he redesigned in accordance with the Lutheran Reformation . On December 27, 1538 , Count Wilhelm the Rich of Nassau-Dillenburg appointed Jost Hoen to be the teacher of his "young children" and servant (official) at the court for life. His first pupil from the count was the future Prince William of Orange , the liberator of the Netherlands. As the educator of one of the most outstanding representatives of European history, the schoolmaster Jost Hoen, who is otherwise hardly known, became a historical personality in the broader sense. The annual salary of 100 guilders in Frankfurt currency, the full catering from the count's kitchen and the annual provision of one shows how high Count Wilhelm rated the skills of his tutor and Countess Juliana, née Countess von Stolberg (1506–1580), of numerous children Summer and winter clothing.

Since Jost Hoen had been married to the chamberlain Margarethe Welcker, daughter of Diezer mayor Theis Welcker, since 1538 when he was appointed educator of the count's children (cf. Dillenburg mayor accounts 1538), he was relieved of the nightly supervision of his pupils, as is customary was released and allowed to spend the nights "in the thall," that is, in the city of Dillenburg. With his appointment, Jost Hoen undertook to educate the young count children in Latin and other languages ​​"to be so common", that is, in Italian and French, to "research God, free art, good manners, morals and virtues" and to bring them up lead by example yourself. He was also released from the obligation to later accompany his pupils as a mentor when they were to study at foreign universities or visit foreign royal courts on their gentlemanly journeys.

After completing his educational assignment, he should continue to be employed in the count's office ("Schreiberey") as a registrar and with other paperwork. At the same time, he was given the supervision of the Latin school in the city. From 1556 Jost Hoen was Count's secretary, from 1564 Count's Councilor and Hofmeister and from 1566 first head of the consortium of the County of Nassau-Dillenburg. In 1569 he was appointed to the chancellery. On March 23, 1559, the emperor from Augsburg awarded him a noble coat of arms, which his grandson Dr. jur. Philipp Heinrich Hoen was renewed in 1636 (Princely Wiedsches Archiv zu Neuwied, document register and file inventory. Neuwied, 1911, p. 148, no. 1134).

Jost Hoen died on June 6, 1569 in Dillenburg. His family, from which several learned and loyal civil servants sprang, survived in Nassau for over two centuries. As far as is known, the marriage with Margarethe Welcker in 1538 resulted in the sons Wilhelm , Anton and Johannes as well as a daughter Anna.

literature

• Hermann Heck: The Hoen civil servants from Nassau. Three generations in the service of Nassau-Dillenburg. In: Nassauische Annalen 78 (1967), pp. 93-105.
• Carl Heiler: From the early days of the Reformation at the court and in the county of Wilhelm the Rich, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. In: Nassauische Annalen 58 (1938), pp. 69–86 [on Jost Hoen, pp. 78 ff. And 84 f. "Reverse letter from Jost Hoen von Gelnhausen regarding his appointment as teacher for the children of Count Wilhelm des Reichen 1538, December 27 with Jost Hoen's personal signature"].