Matthias Hoë from Hoënegg

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Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg, engraving by Sebastian Furck (1650)

Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg or Matthias Höe von Höenegg (born February 24, 1580 in Vienna , † March 4, 1645 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran theologian and senior court preacher in Dresden.

Life

Born as the son of the Lutheran Imperial Privy Councilor and doctor of both rights Leonhard Hoë von Hoënegg (* around 1534 in Oberberg / Franconia; † March 4, 1599 in Vienna) and his wife Helena Wolliehen (* April 6, 1553 in Vienna; † 27. December 1632 ibid), he descended from the old Austrian nobility. Since he was born prematurely, his health was poor in his early youth, so that he did not begin to speak until he was seven. His father had a private tutor teach him at first. After he had largely developed, he was able to attend the St. Stephan City School in Vienna. Here he began to develop extraordinarily, so that he gave lectures to the scholars of the city.

When the Turks threatened to take the city of Vienna in 1594 , he moved with his father and brother to Steyr , where he attended the grammar school there for three years. His father, who had returned to Vienna, brought him home and made it possible for him to be admitted to the University of Vienna , where he first devoted himself to studying philosophy. On the recommendation of a Saxon envoy, he went to the University of Wittenberg on June 16, 1597 to study further , continued studying the philosophical subjects, toying with jurisprudence and decided to study theology.

After holding a few disputations and lectures in Wittenberg, he went to Vienna for a short time after the death of his father in 1599, returned to Wittenberg and became a licentiate in theology on October 23, 1601 . In 1602 he traveled to Dresden, where he intended to be accepted as second court preacher to the elector. After a trial sermon on February 17, 1602, after being ordained on March 14, 1602 in Wittenberg, he was accepted there. On September 6, 1603, Christian II of Saxony sent him to Plauen as superintendent , which he took up at the end of December 1603 and gave his sermon on January 1, 1604. On March 6, 1604 Hoë von Hoënegg in Wittenberg received his doctorate in theology from Leonhard Hutter and was invested in the Plauen superintendent on April 20, 1604 by Polykarp Leyser the Elder .

Despite several offers, he remained in the Saxon service and, at the request of the Saxon Elector, took over a position as director of the Protestant schools and parishes in Bohemia in Prague in 1611 . In Prague he was involved in laying the foundation stone of St. Salvator's Church and founded the local evangelical school and the grammar school. After the Saxon court preacher Paul Jenisch died in 1612, Elector Johann Georg I brought him to Dresden in this capacity on April 3, 1613.

In 1607 his Evangelisches Handbüchlei appeared for the first time, with numerous editions . In his sermons and writings, the strict Lutheran polemicized against the Reformed , whose beliefs he detested more than counter-Reformation Catholicism. His influence on the Elector Johann Georg I and Saxon politics at the beginning of the Thirty Years War was overestimated in older literature.

The decision to go to war alongside the emperor against the Calvinist winter king Friedrich V and the Bohemian estates was made by Johann Georg's Privy Council , although it was approved by Hoë von Hoënegg and later supported by propaganda. His writing Commentarii in Joannis Apocalypsin (Leipzig 1610/40, 2 vol.) Is well known.

family

Hoë von Hoënegg married on October 2, 1602 in Wittenberg with Elisabeth Heidelberger (born November 13, 1581 in Rudersdorf, † November 23, 1644 in Dresden), the daughter of Hans Heidelberger. There are six sons and four daughters from the marriage. From the children we know:

  • Helene Elisabeth Hoë von Hoënegg (born August 14, 1604 in Plauen), married. November 1, 1624 with Hans Jonas von Ligenau
  • Magdalena Elisabeth Hoë von Hoënegg (born February 17, 1606 in Plauen), married. with Hans Bernhard von Neidhard
  • Leonhard Friedrich Hoë von Hoënegg (born March 5, 1608 in Plauen, † June 25, 1638 in Dresden) was Rittmeister, married. August 15, 1633 with NN. Pollnitz
  • Johann (Hans) Christoph Hoë von Hoënegg (born June 4, 1610 in Plauen; † December 31, 1632 in Linz / Rhein, c. January 13, 1633 Frankfurt am Main)
  • Heinrich Julius Hoë von Hoënegg (born July 4, died July 8, 1612 in Prague; † October 7, 1612 ibid., Born October 9, 1612 St. Leonhard)
  • August Hoë von Hoënegg (born August 27, died August 30, 1613 in Dresden; † young)
  • Sophia Elisabeth Hoë von Hoënegg (born November 4, died November 8, 1615 in Dresden, † March 1679) married. November 10, 1640 with Christian von Doëring
  • Sybilla Elisabeth Hoë von Hoënegg (born November 30, died December 2, 1618 in Dresden; † June 6, 1619 ibid., Born June 8, 1619 St. Sophien)
  • Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg (born January 1, died January 4, 1620 in Dresden)
  • Maximillian Ferdinand Hoë von Hoënegg (born February 24, died February 28, 1623 in Dresden, † March 20, 1657 in Dresden) m. February 20, 1645 with Elisabeth von Doering (* December 20, 1624 in Böhlen, † November 29, 1684 in Dresden)

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  1. He was the son of the Mainz councilor and imperial colonel Heinrich Höe von Höenegg and his wife Catharina Tanndorff, his grandfather was Hans Heinrich Höe von Höenegg and his wife's name was Sara Blarr from Wartensee
  2. She was the daughter of the main postmaster Paul Wolliehen (1504 in Strengberg; † October 6, 1575 in Vienna) and his wife Serapia Habenschott († December 7, 1617 in Vienna); his father was Lorenz Wolliehen (1474; † January 4, 1525 in Strengberg) and Barbara Perger (* 1468; † January 12, 1548 in Strengberg), the mother's parents were the postmaster Hans von Habenschott and Anna von Zeller (see Karl August Alfred von Wollzüge: History of the Reichsfreiherrlich von Wolzog'schen family. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1859, Bd. 1 ( online ))
  3. From the marriage of the parents there were 12 sons and five daughters, Ferdinand Höe von Höenegg is known († Exactly) married. with Sophia Golze; Maximilian Höe von Höenegg; Christian Höe von Höenegg; Serapia Höe von Höenegg m. with the baron in Neuhaus and burgrave in Wareszin Wolff Augustin Paradeiser, NN. Höe von Höenegg m. September 19, 1616 Marx Hildebrand in Walterskirchen
  4. ^ Album Academiae Vitebergensis Volume Secundum, Halle (Saale), 1894, p. 440
  5. ^ Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg: Evangelisches Handbüchleium. Leipzig 1607.
predecessor Office successor
Paul Jenisch Court preacher in Dresden
1612 - 1645
Jakob Weller