Martin Heins

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Martin Heinsius

Martin Heins (born November 18, 1610 in Spandau ; † May 9, 1667 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German Protestant theologian, poet and historian.

Life

As the son of a master baker, Heins attended schools in Spandau and Berlin . He then went to study at the University of Wittenberg , where he obtained the degree of master's degree in 1633 . After he had worked as a lecturer in Wittenberg, he went to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in the same position , in 1642 became pastor at the cathedral in Brandenburg an der Havel and in 1645 went to the Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder) as a pastor .

During the Thirty Years' War , as a pastor, he had to fight brutalizing the people of his community. He concentrated particularly on teaching the youth and introduced confirmations as a conclusion before the first communion at Easter 1650, which was recommended to all Protestant communities in Brandenburg in a rescript of October 18, 1660. He also tried to revive church music after the Thirty Years' War .

Apart from a few poems, treatises, and funeral sermons, Heins did not write anything outstanding. With his participation, the Frankfurt Catechism was created in 1652, which saw several editions. He also dealt with the history of Frankfurt. A collection of printed and unprinted materials on this subject is located in the city archive under the title “Annals” in four folio volumes.

Works

  • Bride = songs - one on the spiritual marriage between the Son of God without a believing soul / [...] the other on his other Heyrath / with the honor = virtue = seed maiden of Annen Hedwig Säger / [...], approx. 1647

literature

  • Rudolf Schwarze :  Heins, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 649 f.
  • Johannes Heinrich Gebauer: Martin Heinsius, a hymn poet from Brandenburg . Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History 6 (1908), pp. 93-103
  • Paul Alfred Merbach: Literary- historical development of the Mark Brandenburg. Regional studies of the province of Brandenburg, Volume IV, Berlin 1915
  • Lothar Noack; Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period, Mark Brandenburg 1640-1713 . Berlin 2001 (publications on the cultural history of Brandenburg in the early modern period, edited by Knut Kiesant)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General German biography. Published by the Historical Commission at the Royal [Bavarian] Academy of Sciences, Leipzig 1875–1912
  2. ^ MGG : Volume IV, p. 733
personal data
SURNAME Heins, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinsius, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1667
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)