Mathias Tinctorius

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Mathias Tinctorius (actually Mathias Färber; * October 27th / 28th, 1568 in Kitzingen ; † May 10th, 1632 in Hüfingen ) was a registrar, notary , archivist and judge who was executed as a " witcher ".

Life

Tinctorius, who Latinized his name according to the fashion of the time, was already an elderly man in 1631. He came from Lohr a. Main , his wife Jacobäa from Zell am Harmersbach . Tinctorius was the son of the evangelical pastor of the same name Matthias Tinctorius (Färber) from Worms, who died in January 1588 as superintendent in Kitzingen. Previously, this pastor in Germersheim, Lohr a. Main and Schweinfurt. Mathias Tinctorius was born on October 28, 1568 in Lohr a. Main was baptized Protestant, but converted to the Catholic faith when he took up a position at the imperial court. Due to unfortunate circumstances and illness on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1614 he came with his wife on the way back to Aasen, where he accepted a job as a teacher, in 1618 he became registrar and district court clerk for the Counts of Fürstenberg .

fate

From 1622 Tinctorius and his wife lived in Hüfingen. In 1628 he received the letter of arms from Vratislaus I. von Fürstenberg . Due to exact behavior towards tax debtors, beneficiaries and other misleading behavior, he and his wife, also because they were "immigrants", were quickly unpopular and were denounced as "witches" and "wizards" July 1631 beheaded together with six other women as "witches". At the time, this was a "pardon" because his wife was of higher rank, and cremation was common.

On July 10, his patron and friend, Prince Vratislaus I, died in Vienna; After this became known, he was arrested on August 22nd and tortured several times, on May 10th 1632 he was executed. He had to revoke his previous revocation in writing, so he could avoid the penalty of cremation and also “mitigate” it for beheading. (The body was always burned afterwards).

literature

  • Wilhelm Franck, The witch trial against the Fürstenberg registrar Obervogteiverweser and notary Mathias Tinctorius and consorts zu Hüfingen. A moral picture from the 1630s , In: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the adjacent landscapes , 2 (1872), pp. 1-42. online in the google book search
  • Susanne Huber-Wintermantel, The witch trial camouflages judicial murder, The execution of Mathias Tinctorius in Hüfingen in 1632 . In: Almanach 90 Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Heimatjahrbuch 14th episode, Landratsamt Schwarzwald Baar Kreis (Ed.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Vetter: Chronicle of Hüfingen . Ed .: City of Hüfingen. Hüfingen 1984, p. 193 .
  2. ↑ Susanne Huber-Wintermantel, witch trial camouflages judicial murder, The execution of Mathias Tinctorius in Hüfingen in 1632 in: Almanach 90 Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Heimatjahrbuch 14th episode, published by Landratsamt Schwarzwald Baar Kreis. 157
personal data
SURNAME Tinctorius, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Färber, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and notary
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1568 or October 28, 1568
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohr a. Main
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1632
Place of death Hüfingen