Martinus Coronaeus (pastor, 1588)

Martinus Coronaeus ( Latinized from: Krey ) (* 1588 in Flintbek ; † June 1, 1665 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor in the Duchy of Holstein .

Live and act

Martinus Coronaeus was a son of Paulus Coronaeus and his wife Catharina. His father, born around 1560, had been a pastor at the Flintbeker Church since 1588 and probably died in 1599. The mother, who was the daughter of a sexton and organist in Westensee, was still alive in 1600. The paternal grandfather, Martinus Coronaeus , was senior pastor at the St. Nikolai Church in Kiel . He himself married a woman named Margarete, who was still alive when her husband died.

Coronaeus attended the Princely School in the former Bordesholm Monastery from 1603 . He then received a scholarship from the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and studied theology at the University of Rostock from June 1609 . In the summer of 1612 he moved to Heidelberg and, after completing his studies, traveled to Strasbourg, Basel, Rome and Venice, presumably as court master of a young nobleman. He then returned to Holstein and was ordained in October 1615 and appointed pastor in Flintbek. He stayed there until the end of his life.

During the Thirty Years War , Duke Friedrich III behaved . neutral and bought his area, to which Flintbek belonged, free from the burden of war. Nevertheless, Wallenstein's soldiers also plundered in Flintbek. Coronaeus wrote a report about it. At that time he probably owned a large library and - like many country pastors - worked as a farmer, because he lost books worth 100 marks as well as sixteen cows and eight horses. During the Torstensson War, soldiers invaded again in 1644, about which Coronaeus wrote a surviving letter to the provost and rector of Bordesholm, Paul Sperling, in which he reported that in Flintbek during one night damage of 5,000 marks had occurred. All food supplies and most of the residents' possessions were destroyed or stolen. The church was able to save Coronaeus by paying some soldiers to guard it.

Shortly before the end of his life, Coronaeus transferred his tasks by contract to an adjunct, who in return secured his livelihood and became his successor.

Works

Coronaeus took care of the library in Bordesholm at times and probably also the archive. That probably sparked his interest in the history of the monastery. Since he was later able to access the sources in Bordesholm in Flintbek, he created a chronicle of the history of the monastery and the princely school. The work on this work, entitled Antiques of Bardesholm Monastery , he temporarily finished in 1637. Among other things, he reproduced the legend that Hans Brüggemann , the creator of the Brüggemann altar , was blinded by the Bordesholm monks because he had promised Lübeck admirers of his work an even more beautiful altar. The 25-page chronicle has been preserved in several manuscripts. Ernst Joachim Westphal printed the chronicle in a Latin version and with additions by other authors in 1740.

Coronaeus also reported in chronological order on unexpected and violent deaths of Schleswig-Holstein's nobles in the 16th or 17th century. He wrote briefly anecdotally and abstained from all personal comments. He probably finished the work on this Epitaphia Nobilium Slesvico-Holsatorum (= grave inscriptions of Schleswig-Holstein noblemen) in 1662. The Kiel mayor Asmus Bremer based Coronaeus' preparatory work at the beginning of the 18th century on the Kiel Chronicle , which was printed in the 19th century . In doing so, he supplemented Coronaeus' collection in such a way that he diluted its peculiarities. In 1750, Johann Friedrich Camerer also took over parts of Coronaues ' Epitaphia in his thoughts on the duel , which brought out Coronaues' original portrayal of the nobles as rowdy and unruly personalities.

literature

• Dieter Lohmeier: Coronaeus, Martinus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 84-85.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dieter Lohmeier: Coronaeus, Martinus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , page 84.
2. ↑ Enrollment entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ^ August Sach: Hans Brüggemann. A contribution to the history of the duchies . Kiel 1865, p. 7.
4. ↑ Johann Eike Benesch: Holy Mountain, Giant Stones and Heavy Oak. Search for traces of a pagan sacral landscape. First part: untangling the tradition . In: Yearbook for the former Bordesholm 3/2001 , pp. 1–52 ; Pp. 31, 33.
5. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Coronaeus, Martinus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 84-85.