Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche

Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche , also Nicolaus Daniel Hinsche , pseudonym Theobald Winfried (born December 29, 1771 in Hamburg , † May 3, 1848 in Bergedorf ) was a German mayor and writer .

Life

Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche was born the son of the businessman Nikolaus Hinsche (* unknown; † November 2, 1785) and his wife Anna Katharina Frey. His grandfather, Nikolaus Hinsche (* July 15, 1699 - † February 15, 1765) was a businessman and senator in Hamburg and married to Anna Faber (* April 27, 1704 - March 27, 1772), a daughter of the mayor of Hamburg, who died in 1729 Hans Jakob Faber . His sister Charlotte (* unknown; † 1827) was married to the businessman Nikolaus Daniel Schwieger (* 1780; † 1872), after whom the "Schwiegerstrasse" in Hamburg was named (in 1922 it was renamed " Kalkhof ").

After the death of his father, his mother married the Hamburg merchant Johann Matthias Brüning (born April 30, 1748, † July 26, 1814), who became his stepfather.

He spent most of his childhood and youth in the country estate (with a tan mill ) at the Kupferhof in Bergedorf, which his grandfather had bought in 1706 , because his father stayed there frequently; after the death of his father he was the sole owner.

He received his education and training from private teachers, u. a. taught by the candidate of the Hamburg ministry Bernhard Heinrich Paris († November 1, 1826) and the rector Friedrichs in Bergedorf. Although he did not enjoy an academic degree, he received extensive classical training.

After his confirmation he received a commercial training from his stepfather. However, because he could not gain anything from this profession, he retired to Bergedorf in 1802 and devoted himself to poetry. He probably had his first public appearance as early as 1800, when he published the poem Hymnus auf die Liebe in the “ German Monthly Journal ” under his pseudonym Winfried .

In 1802 he sent further poems to Johann Georg Jacobi for inclusion in the women's magazine " Iris - a literary quarterly journal for women ", which were published in 1803. In the following years he published in regular papers, for example in "Hennig's Musengarten", "Eunomia" and " Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen ".

In 1815 a council position became vacant in the city council of Bergedorf and Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche was persuaded to accept the position as councilor .

In 1817 he and his poetic friends made the decision to publish a Poetic Flower Harvest , which was later given the title Nordic Muse Almanac. There were 7 volumes, the last time in 1823.

In 1820 and 1821 he published the journal Nordalbingische Blätter , 6 of which appeared annually.

After the resignation of the mayor Jacob Graepel (1743–1832) Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche was elected as his successor in Bergedorf in 1828. He held the office of mayor until his death. In 1830, as mayor, he had the spring, the so-called "Gesundbrunnen" broken open in 1703, repaired and a plaque attached with a verse that he had composed.

In 1831 he arranged for the cemetery located at the St. Petri and Pauli Church to be relocated to the Gojenberg (today the "Old Cemetery" on Gojenbergsweg) because of its overcrowding. After his death, Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche was buried there and his tombstone still reminds us of his services as Bergedorf's mayor.

In 1834 he published a collection of poems under the title Poetic Attempts by Windfried .

In 1838, as mayor, he founded the “bread distribution association”, which existed until the outbreak of World War I.

He campaigned for the construction of a railway line that was put into operation in 1842 with the Hamburg-Bergedorf line, but due to the fire in Hamburg , the first trains on the occasion of the opening on May 7, 1842 did not carry guests of honor, but refugees from Hamburg and firefighters from Bergedorf. Scheduled operations did not begin until May 17, 1842, without any celebrations.

On November 5, 1815, he married Katharina Henriette Carstens in Bergedorf, a daughter of the late licentiate and clerk Peter Hinrich Carstens (* 1739 in Lübeck; † March 1, 1814). The marriage did not result in their own children, but they did have a foster daughter.

Honors

In Bergedorf, Goethe-Strasse was renamed Daniel-Hinsche-Strasse in 1949.

Works

• Field flowers and thistles. Leipzig: [sn], 1804.
• Echo. Collection of mixed essays for the mind and the imagination. Hamburg 1812
• Relics gathered in the realms of truth and poetry . Hamburg 1814
• Poetic harvest of flowers for the year 1817. Leipzig; Hamburg: [sn], 1817-1823.
• Ruins and flowers. Altona: [sn], 1826.
• New Year's Night Dream: together with an appendix of smaller poetry; Poetry. Altona: Aue, 1838.
• Poetic attempts: new collection. Hamburg Perthes, Besser & Mauke 1846
• Nordalbingische Blätter: magazine for the educated. Hamburg Herald.
• Nordic muse almanac; poetic flower picking. Hamburg: Herald.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1848 ( google.de [accessed October 7, 2017]).
2. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek, Association for Hamburg History: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . JA Meissner, 1840 ( google.de [accessed October 7, 2017]).
3. ^ Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present: Günther - Kleye . Perthes-Besser u. Mauke, 1857 ( google.de [accessed October 7, 2017]).
4. ↑ Newspaper article. Bergedorfer Chronik, accessed on October 8, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Karl Goedeke, Edmund Goetze: Seventh Book: Time of the World War (1790-1815): Fantastic poetry. Department II . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005251-9 ( google.de [accessed October 7, 2017]).
6. ↑ [1]
7. ↑ The fountain on Brunnenstrasse | Bergedorf blog. Retrieved October 8, 2017 (German). 
8. ^ Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present: Günther - Kleye . Perthes-Besser u. Mauke, 1857 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2017]). ; Son of Meno Nicolaus Carstens , pastor at Lübeck Cathedral
9. ↑ Torsten: Daniel-Hinsche-Strasse. Retrieved October 7, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Karl Goedeke, Edmund Goetze: Seventh Book: Time of the World War (1790-1815): Fantastic poetry. Department II . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005251-9 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2017]).
11. ↑ Nordic Muses Almanac: for the year ...; poetic flower picking