Nicolaus Höniger

Turkish Chronicle, Basel 1596

Nicolaus Höniger (* 1548 in Königshofen an der Tauber ; † September 1598 in Haltingen ) was proofreader for the Petri family of printers from 1570 to 1582 , first with Heinrich , then with Sebastian Henricpetri .

Höniger was born in Königshofen in 1548, attended the Latin school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , and then went to high school at the pedagogy in Rostock . Then he was a student at the model high school in Strasbourg.

In 1572/73 he moved to Basel to start studying theology. At the time of enrollment , he was proofreader for Heinrich Petri. After completing his studies, however, he did not immediately take on a pastor's position, but, according to his own admission, stayed for 12 years in the Henricpetri printing house.

In 1570 or 1571 Höniger married Elisabet Grasser, with whom he had nine children in the course of the marriage. He took over a pastor's position in Efringen-Kirchen , from 1587 until his death in Haltingen .

Höniger was not only a proofreader, but also an author and translator, and so he left a whole series of works in this capacity. The sometimes rapid succession of translations that have been published under his name suggests that he was a great worker and was evidently able to translate extremely quickly.

Works

• Antoine Geuffroy: First part, the hope of the Turkish Keyser and Othomannic Empire, not just the Turkish Ampt, Räthen, Bevelchs and war people ... names, service, salaries ... indicated: special also the Turkish superstition, false religion ... life, nature, customs ... other parts, Turkish stories and memorable deeds, wars, battles, victories ... are described between the Turks and Christians from the jar MDXX. to this current MDXCVI. jare published and delivered, divided into four books . Sebastian Henricpetri, printed in Basel in 1596.

• Innocent Gentillet: Exams that are, explorations and refutations of the Tridentine Concilium: Inside old church histories, sampt the teaching of the old fathers and bishops, plus the age-old General Concilia of the first Christian churches: Also the clergy and priestly law constitutions, decrees, canons and Statutes against the first registered Concilio are written word to word . by Hulderichum Froelich, printed at Basel 1587.

• Nikolaus Höniger: Spiegel, The Secular Roman Bapst in it alone the external power, splendor, arrogance and pride of the Roman beasts, would be described by their rise and origin ... The first part. Everything with special effort, effort and work from many historians ... pulled together, and based on the Latin Speculo Romanorum Pontificum of the highly learned Mr. D. Stephani Szegedini, executed with extensive histories . Ulrich Frölich, Basel 1586.

• Sebastian Franck: Chronick: History and journal of all the most humiliating and memorable spiritual and worldly things or actions from the beginning of the world after the creation of the first man, up to the present jar Christi MDLXXXV. elongated ... Therein both God and the world run, Hendel, Art, Word, Werck, Thun, Lassen, Essence and Life is seen and understood ... Summa, here you will find a short term ... the most chronicle ... histories . Sebastian Henricpetri, printed after the birth of our Lord Christ in 1585.

• Nikolaus Höniger: Chronicle History and journal of all the most neat and memorable spiritual and worldly things or actions from the beginning of the world after the creation of the first man up to the present day of Christ MDLXXXV. laughed narrowed ... Weylandt by Sebastian Francken of ... woerd started up in 1531, but now multiply, by Calonium Ghönneirum ... . sn, Sl 1585.

• First part of the Newenn Weldt and Indian Low Countries Kingdom, new and true history, of all stories, actions, deeds, strict and criminal regiment of the Spaniards against the Indians . Sebastian Henricpetri, printed in Basel in 1582.

• African war description, the Portuguese readers sampt terrible niderlag, who were briefly released, in it two Mauritanian king, sampt King Sebastian from Portugal, with more then 12,000th Christians per day were slain, and over 14,000th were captured. The same of the conquest and acquisition of the Kingdom of Portugal by King Philippum in Hispania . By Nicolaum Höniger von Tauberkönigshofen, printed in Basel 1581.

literature

• Jakob Franck :  Höniger, Nikolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 71 f.
• Peter P. Albert: Nikolaus Höniger von Königshofen, a Baden pastor and writer of the 16th century , in: ZGO NF 39 (1926), pp. 219–286.
• Joachim Hamm: Fools with interpretation. On "Welt Spiegel oder Narren Schiff" (Basel 1574) by Nikolaus Höniger von Königshofen , in: Traditional and Innovative in the Sacred Literature of the Middle Ages. Edited by Jens Haustein [among others]. Stuttgart 2019 (Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch, supplement 7), pp. 407–426.
• Werner Keppner: Nikolaus Höniger from Tauberkönigshofen wrote printing history: He lived and worked in Franconia from 1548 to 1598. Franconian Chronicle (Bad Mergentheim) 4 (1998), p. 3f.