Peter Sax

Peter Sax (born September 6, 1597 in Eversbüll, Strand ; † April 23, 1662 in Koldenbüttel ( Eiderstedt ), Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German farmer and chronicler .

Peter Sax was the son of Sax Laurensen (1568–1648), a wealthy farmer in Evensbüll. His mother Ida Jons (1578–1655) came from Koldenbüttel and was a cousin of Anna Ovena Hoyers . From 1609 to 1614 he attended the school in Husum . He then visited the Katharineum in Lübeck before studying law in Wittenberg . Around 1621 he settled in Koldenbüttel, where he ran the state farm known from Theodor Storm's novella , which his mother had probably brought into his parents' marriage. As church elder, dike commissioner and first of the 12 Eiderstedt councilors, he held the most influential position in Eiderstedt self-government after the stallion .

In the Burchardi flood of 1634, Peter Sax's place of birth Eversbüll also went under. Except for one sister, his entire family survived. Presumably this catastrophe, with its heavy loss of human life, land and cultural assets, led Peter Sax to begin collecting written materials, maps and oral traditions about the history of his homeland. He wrote overviews of the topography and history, first of Eiderstedt, then of the rest of North Friesland and Dithmarschen . He drew rough sketches for his works and also gave them maps by contemporary cartographers such as Johannes Mejer . His extremely detailed work is an important source for the earlier history of Eiderstedt, which his contemporary Anton Heimreich used, but was first printed in 1910.

His coat of arms grave plate is preserved in front of the St. Leonhard Church in Koldenbüttel.

Works

• Nova, totius Frisiae septentrionalis, Descriptio. A new description of the entire lands, islands and ougen in the whole of North Friessland, on the Cimbrian Sea (1636)
• Descriptio, Insulae Nordstrandiae. A description of the Insul, vnd Landes Nordtstrand (1637)
• Annales Eyder Stadium (1637)
• Frisia Minor, hoc est, Tabulae, Insularum et Peninsularum (mainly contains historical maps)
• Dithmarsia, a necessary preliminary report, and historical narrative, the state of the country Dithmarschen, outside Latin, Teuth and Indian scriptoribus (1647)
• Stam trees of several Frisian Eiderstettian families (1655)

Work edition

• Sax, Peter, Albert A. Panten and Reimer Kay Holander : Works on the history of North Friesland and Dithmarschen , 7 volumes. Verlag H. Lühr & Dircks, St. Peter-Ording, 1983–1988 (reprint of the 1910 edition).

literature

• Carsten Erich Carstens:  Saxe, Petrus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 459 f.
• Harry Kunz: grave of Peter Sax in Koldenbüttel . In: Places of Remembrance in Nordfriesland , Nordfriisk Instituut, 25821 Bräist / Bredstedt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88007-355-5 [1] (accessed on May 6, 2012; PDF; 135 kB)
• Dieter Lohmeier : Sax, Peter . In: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon IV; Neumünster 1976; Pp. 199-210
• Eckardt Opitz : Sax, Peter in: They are our treasure and wealth. 60 portraits from Schleswig-Holstein . Christians, Hamburg 1990, pp. 32-35 ISBN 3-7672-1115-7 .
• Sax, Peter and the Koldenbüttel community (ed.): Peter Sax 1597 - 1997. Festschrift to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birthday . Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut, Bräist / Bredstedt, 1997