Maria Magdalena Böhmer

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Maria Magdalena Böhmer (born January 1, 1669 in Hanover ; † November 16, 1743 there ) was a German poet of sacred songs .

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The daughter of the imperial notary and legal consultant Valentin Böhmer (1634–1704) and Anna Margarethe Schirmer (1640–1714) and older sister of the canon lawyer Justus Henning Böhmer remained unmarried in their hometown of Hanover. She was extremely pious and was in close contact with the members of the Bohemian Brethren , from which the Moravian Brethren Congregation arose in 1727 . In 1704 Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen published two of Boehmer's songs in the first part of his Geistiges Gesangbuch : Oh, I would like to see my Jesus and Ein's Christen Hertz longs for high things . The latter was also freely translated into English a few years later by the English revival preacher and co-founder of the Methodist movement John Wesley and published there under the title Regardless now of things below .

In addition, Maria Magdalena Böhmer and many other women took part in a general appeal for sacred song poetry based on the example of her religious sisters Countess Erdmuthe Dorothea von Zinzendorf and Anna von Zinzendorf , which was initiated by Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf , the founder of the Moravian Brethren and husband previously named women. Some of these works were included in the Ebersdorfer, Halle'sche, Lemgoer and Wernigeroder hymns and the Magdeburg hymns by Johann Adam Steinmetz .

Literature and Sources

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Boehmerin (Maria Magdalena). In: ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. 2 vol., Bremen 1823, vol. 1, pp. 213/214 ( digitized version ).
  • Eduard Emil Koch : History of the hymn and hymn of the Christian, especially the German Protestant Church: The poets and singers . First main part, Volume 4, 3rd edition. Georg Olms Verlag, 1973, p. 373 ( digitized version ).
  • Linda Maria Koldau : Women - Music - Culture, a manual on the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne 2005, p. 406 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans-Thorald Michaelis : History of the von Boehmer family - In continuation of the genealogy written by Hugo Erich von Boehmer in 1892 of the Boehmer and von Boehmer families descended from Justus Henning Boehmer as well as some of the families related to them. Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oh, I want to see my Jesus
  2. ↑ Ein's Christians Hertz longs for high things
personal data
SURNAME Böhmer, Maria Magdalena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehmer, Maria Magdalena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of sacred songs
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1669
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1743
Place of death Hanover