Matthias Boetius

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Matthias Boetius (* 1580/85 in Königsbüll ( Alt-Nordstrand ), † 1625 in Evensbüll (Alt-Nordstrand)) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler.

Life

Boetius' father Peter Boysen or Boetius († 1592) was pastor of several parishes and vice-provost on Alt-Nordstrand. Boetius enrolled at the University of Rostock in 1605 . In 1607 he continued his studies in Wittenberg . After he was probably a deacon in Holstein for one or two years , as Otto Hartz, the editor of his works, concludes from the mention of an unsuccessful Chronicon Holsaticum , he took over the pastor's position in Hersbüll on Alt-Nordstrand in 1610, from which he moved to Evensbüll in 1614 changed. He died there in 1625.

De cataclysmo Norstrandico

In 1623 Boetius had a small volume with the title De cataclysmo Norstrandico commentariorum libri tres - three books about the storm surge on north beach - printed. In the first book he presented the history and geography of his home island. In the following two books he described the storm surges of 1612 and 1615, after which it took until 1619 for the dikes to be repaired. Boëtius dedicated the book to Friedrich III. , the Duke of Schleswig , presumably in the hope of government support in building the dike.

In contrast to many contemporaries, Boetius rejected any speculation. He gives reports of the fall of Rungholt as divine punishment, but refers this story to the realm of legend . Rungholt did not suddenly disappear from the ground, but was given up after the attempts to repair the dykes, which had broken during the flood of 1300 , were finally nullified at the Great Mandränke , which he dates to 1354. He also interpreted the damage caused by the floods during his lifetime less as a divine judgment, as Anton Heimreich did twenty years later - after the catastrophic Burchardi flood , which Boetius no longer experienced - but as a result of human negligence and a lack of helpfulness. In 1612, for example, the Pellwormers would not have released their dyke workers who had been hired from outside to obtain a new Koog for the urgently needed tamping of the Wehle near Brunock in the Rungholter Bay. And those directly affected by the dike breach themselves would not have primarily invested their labor in the dyke repairs, but contented themselves with a fleetingly raised protective wall and then turned all their energies to field work and thus neglected the vital dyke work. When there were finally enough workers available, the gap in the dike had become so large that the repair was no longer successful and Brunock had to be abandoned in 1615.

literature

  • Otto Hartz (translator and publisher): Matthiae Boetii de cataclysmo Norstrandico commentariorum libri tres (sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein 25); Neumünster 1940
  • Dieter Lohmeier: BOETIUS (Boysen), Matthias , in: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon IV; Neumünster 1976; Pp. 37-38

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , summer semester 1605, No. 61
  2. ^ Hartz: Matthiae Boetii de cataclysmo Norstrandico commentariorum libri tres ; P. 3
  3. ^ Hartz: Matthiae Boetii de cataclysmo Norstrandico commentariorum libri tres ; P. 2
personal data
SURNAME Boetius, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boysen, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH between 1580 and 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsbüll ( old north beach )
DATE OF DEATH 1625
Place of death Evensbüll (old north beach)