Nicolaus Heutger

Nicolaus Carl Heutger (born January 7, 1932 in Rinteln , † January 20, 2008 on Curaçao ) was a German Lutheran theologian , numismatist , Judaist and historian .

Life

At the age of eleven, Heutger lost his father, who was not given adequate medical care after being wounded on the Eastern Front in World War II . After attending high school for boys in Rinteln, the current school Ernestinum , he studied whose maternal grandfather superintendent of the county foam was, theology and classical studies in Heidelberg and Goettingen . In 1953 he became active in the Heidelberg and Göttingen Wingolf . In 1959/60 he received his doctorate in theology. In 1973 he received a scholarship from the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land in Jerusalem .

From 1959 to 1992 Heutger was pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , including from 1961 to 1982 at the Nienburg main church St. Martin and from 1982 to 1992 at the Hildesheim Lamberti Church .

Among other things, he was lecturer for religious studies at the University of Hildesheim from 1972 to 1989 , from 1991/92 lecturer for the history of German Jews at the University of Vechta , from 1992 several years associate professor for German cultural and art history at the University of Illinois and in 1996 visiting professor for church and denominational studies at the University of Dorpat . Since the winter semester 1993/94 he was lecturer for the history of the German Jews at the University of Oldenburg .

Since 1972 Heutger, who flirted with Catholicism as a youth , was canon of Bassum Abbey , since 1996 provost of the German Templars and since 1998 capitular of Amelungsborn Abbey . From 1969 to 2001 he wrote for the coin magazine Money Trend . He was called in as a specialist judge by the federal government . Heutger campaigned for Judeo-Christian dialogue and interreligious exchange and was known for always running a hospitable rectory . He was also a member of the Hildesheim Lions Club for almost 23 years .

Heutger was married and has two children. He died while visiting his daughter on Curaçao. His son has the same first name.

Posthumously in 2009 Nicolaus Heutger published the book Lower Saxony Ordenshäuser und Stifte. Past and present (= research on the history of the order in Lower Saxony, vol. 7), which was published by his daughter Viola Heutger.

Fonts

• Evangelical convents in the Guelph lands and the county of Schaumburg. Studies of the afterlife of monastic and penal forms since the introduction of the Reformation. Lax, Hildesheim 1961.
• The Möllenbeck Abbey on the Weser . Lax, Hildesheim 1962.
  • The Möllenbeck Abbey on the Weser. Kanonissenstift, Windesheimer Chorherrenstift, Evangelisches Stift . Lax, Hildesheim, 2nd, completely revised edition 1987.
• Vatican postage stamps. Art and history . Philapress-Verlag, Göttingen 1966.
• On the history of the Möllenbeck Monastery in the Diocese of Minden . In: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichts- und Museumsverein , year 39, 1967, pp. 37–44.
• The Amelungsborn Monastery as reflected in the history of the Cistercian order . With a foreword by Christhard Mahrenholz . Lax, Hildesheim 1968.
• Evangelical and simultaneous donors in Westphalia. With special consideration of the Börstel monastery in the Bersenbrück district . With an appendix on Luther's position on monasteries after 1521 . Lax, Hildesheim 1968.
• The Protestant theological work of the Westphalia in the baroque period . Lax, Hildesheim 1969.
• Loccum - A History of the Monastery . Lax, Hildesheim 1971.
• The Bassum Abbey as part of the Lower Saxony church history Hildesheim 1972, [together with Frithjof Bestmann].
• Historical Weser Studies , Hildesheim 1972. Contains u. a .: Protestant church art in Lower Saxony , Marklohe on the Weser , the eleven-hundred-year-old Wunstorf Abbey .
• Bursfelde and its reform monasteries . With contributions by Hanns Lilje , Götz Harbsmeier and Paulus Volk. Lax, Hildesheim, 2nd, expanded edition 1975.
• Future for our past . Lax, Hildesheim 1975. Contains u. a .: 950 years of Nienburg , the architectural and art monuments of the city of Nienburg , the architectural and art monuments of the Obernkirchen Abbey , the architectural and art monuments of the city of Bassum , Riddagshausen in Cistercian art .
• Introduction to coin studies (= pocket books for money, bank and stock exchange, vol. 68). Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
• World religions and Christianity in conversation . Olms, Hildesheim 1977, [together with Günther Klages].
• 850 years of Walkenried Monastery . Lax, Hildesheim 1977.
• Lower Saxon Jews. An introduction to the 40th anniversary of November 9, 1938 . With a vote by Regional Bishop Eduard Lohse . Lax, Hildesheim 1978.
• From Lower Saxony's cultural heritage. Lectures and studies . Lax, Hildesheim 1978. Contains u. a .: Bremen Cathedral Monastery , 800 years of St. Marienberg in Helmstedt .
• Practical coin studies . Goltze, Göttingen 1979.
• 1100 years of stooping. The pen stooping in history and art . Lax, Hildesheim 1982.
• Introduction to the reprint by Alexander Missong: The coins of the Princely House of Liechtenstein . Topos-Verlag, Vaduz 1983, pp. IX-XLIII.
• From Hildesheim's church history . Lax, Hildesheim 1984.
• 500 years of the St. Lamberti Hall Church in Hildesheim Neustadt, 1488–1988 . Lax, Hildesheim 1988.
• The Protestant rectory in Lower Saxony as an example of the importance of the Protestant rectory . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Cistercian work in Lower Saxony . Oppermann, Hildesheim 1993. In commission of Antiquariat Hieronymus, Ludwigsburg.
• Lower Saxony monasteries. A ceremony for the 50th anniversary of Lower Saxony . Reichold, Hannover / Publishing House for Regional History Bielefeld 1996.
• The spiritual orders of knights in Lower Saxony. On the 40th anniversary of the reactivation of the Templar order in Lower Saxony (= research on the history of the order in Lower Saxony, vol. 1). Reichold, Hanover 1997.
• The Protestant women's monasteries and monasteries in Lower Saxony . Reichold, Braunschweig 1998.
• The Loccum Monastery as part of the Cistercian order history . Theodor Oppermann-Verlag, Hanover 1999.
• The Lower Saxony Johanniter in the past and present . In: Hubertus Müller von Blumencron (ed.): The Lower Saxony Johanniter in past and present. Commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Johanniter relief community in Hanover . Johanniter-Aid Community, Hanover 2001, pp. 19–116.
• The Templars then and now. For the 50th anniversary of the reactivation of the Templar Order in Germany . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86732-017-7 , pp. 141-144
• Walkenried Monastery. Past and present . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate in theology from the Protestant Theological Faculty of Montpellier in 1968

literature

• Achim Alexander Sahin (ed.): The abundance of wisdom and knowledge: Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Nicolaus Heutger . BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-8142-0792-0 online (also source, unless otherwise specified).

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 42.
2. ^ Lions club obituary in the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung from January 29, 2008.
3. ↑ http://www.tempelherrenorden.de/inhalt/aktuell.php , accessed on January 29, 2008 at 9:46 pm.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nicolaus Heutger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage dedicated to Heutger with picture and bibliography sorted by years