Leonard Offerhaus

Leonhard Offerhaus

Leonard Offerhaus (born November 18, 1699 in Hamm , † October 18, 1779 in Groningen ) was a German historian in the Netherlands .

Life

Leonhard was the son of the then professor at the grammar school in Hamm and later professor of theology and oriental languages Christian Gerhard Offerhaus (1612–1758) and his wife Margareta Heshuysen. In 1706 he received his first training at the grammar school in Deventer . His education was continued in 1714 at the grammar school in Gouda and in 1717 he began studying theology with his father at the Athaneum Illustre Deventer. He continued his studies in 1723 at the University of Utrecht with Hieronymus Simons van Alphen (1665–1742), Friedrich Adolph Lampe (1683–1729) and Karl Andreas Duker (1660–1752).

In 1725 he received a professorship in history and rhetoric at the academic high school in Lingen , which he took up on February 25 with the speech Oratio de persecutione Waldensium. In 1728 the curators of the University of Groningen appointed him professor in the same office, which he took up on July 29 with the speech de causis incrementi Antichristi sex prioribus seculis sive de Antichristo in utero ante ipsius ortum et natitavit . In 1744 he became the librarian of the academy, published his main work Compendium historiae Universalis (Groningen 1751) in 1751 and in 1752 was appointed professor of Dutch history and geography.

His further work was followed by a Compendium hist. Foeder. Belgii (Groningen 1753). He also taught about Roman antiquities, including lecturing on de historia virorum eruditorum in 1776/77 . Offerhaus also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1738, 1745, 1747 and 1754. On May 10, 1779 he became Professor Honorarius, but died after receiving the honor. Offerhaus was also a member of the Dutch Academy of Sciences.

family

From his 1731 marriage with Cornelia Huysinga (1702-28 July 1751) had five children. Two daughters and one son survived the father. The preacher in Winsum, Herman Johan, is known from the children. His daughter Elisabeth married NM d'Assonville, then Johann Gregori te Vere and the daughter Cornelia Christina married JH Warmolts.

Works

• Compendium historiae Universalis, quo res sacrae ac profanae in orbe et ecclesia gestae brevissime exhibentur. Groningen 1751, 1756 ( online ), 1775, edited by Johann Matthias Schröckh , Leipzig, 1772 2 vol.
• Diss. Hist. Philol. De vita Salvatoris privata et publica. Deventer 1720
• Compendium Historiae Foederati Belgii per modum Annalium in usum juventutis Academiae concinnatum. Groningen 1753
• Specilegiorum Historico-chronologicorum Libri tres, Quibus chronologia sacra, origines et fata Regnorum per Orientem, ut et Graecorum migrationes exhibentur. Accedunt Disputationes duae, de Ptolomaeo Aulete, et Vita Salvatoris publica et privata. Next disputatio in Epistola instituti a Viro Clarissimo Gerhardo ten Cate, qua dubiorum et difficilium quorumdam e Prophetis locorum explicatio Evangelicae Historicae congruens traditur. Groningen 1759
• Korte schets van de volken, who weleer 't gezegend Nederland bevolkt en inhabited. Haarlem 1761
• Dispute. Theol. de ecclesia apostolica totius Ecclesiae. NT matre, ad Galat. IV: 26. Utrecht 1724
• Oratio de persecutione Waldensium. Utrecht 1725
• Diss. Histor. de antiquo Assyriorum imperio. Lingen 1727
• Diss. Altera acad. de monarchia Assyriorum dilaterata. Lingen 1727
• Oratio de Antichristo in utero. Groningen 1728
• Diss. Histor. chronolog. exhibens synchronismum rerum paullo ante captivitatem Babylonicum gestarum. Groningen 1730
• Diss. Hist. Chronolog. de rebus sub. Nebucadnezare magno in oriente gestis. Groningen 1734
• Diss. Hist. Chronol. allera de rebus sub. Nebucadnezzare. Groningen 1734
• Diss. De rebus a morte Nebucadnezaris ad Cyri exitum in Oriente gestis. Groningen 1737
• Epistola ad virum doctissmum I, Georg. Waltherum, AM qua dubia, ab ipso de aere templi mota, renovantur et ratio putandi tempora in Spicilegiis propopsita illustratur et confirmatur. Groningen 1741

literature

• Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Friedrich August Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1832, 3rd section, 2nd vol., P. 281 ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800, Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1810, vol. 10, p. 214 ( online )
• Johann Christoph Strodtmann: The new learned Europe. Johann Christoph Meißner, Wolfenbüttel, 1752, vol. 1, p. 30, ( online ) and 1756, vol. 9, p. 91 ( online )
• Aria Theodorus van Deursen: Offerhaus, Leonhard . In: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Verlag JH Kok, Kampen, 1978, ISBN 9024220912 , Vol. 1, pp. 227–229, (Dutch)
• Brugmans: Offerhaus, Leonhard . In: Petrus Johannes Blok, Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen: Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek. (NNBW) Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING), AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1921, Vol. 5, Sp. 383–384, (Dutch)
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard made. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 14, pp. 49–51, ( online , Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Other information December 26, 1699 old style