Heinrich Rehbein (chronicler)

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Heinrich Rehbein (also Hinrich ; † August 9, 1629 in Lübeck ) was a German chronicler .

Life

Little is known about Rehbein's life and person. Entries in the weekly books of the Marienkirche indicate that he was the son of the Lübeck citizen and elderly man of the skipper Thomas Rehbein , who died in early July 1585. As a merchant he was active in trade with Antwerp. Heinrich Rehbein's brother Thomas was elected city protonotary on April 11, 1573 , then councilor on January 25, 1593 and died on May 2, 1610. The death of his mother in April 1585 is also mentioned. The last entry deals with Heinrich Rehbein's own burial in 1629. Beyond that, no biographical information is available.

The Lübeck Chronicle

After his handwritten preface to the Lübeck Chronicle , Rehbein made the decision in 1568 to write a historical work that should not only be a line of advice, but also record all the significant events of Lübeck's past. In the following 50 years Rehbein filled a total of 12 volumes with a total of 904 pages with his notes; the last entries refer to the year 1619, but Rehbein continued to make additions and additions after that. The last addition from July 1629 is an attached sheet with which he expanded his chronicle to include information from the work of Hans Regkmann . Heinrich Rehbein therefore worked on his chronicle for a total of 60 years, up to a month before his death.

Rehbein attached great importance to the illustration of his chronicle: from the beginning he left space for pictures in his manuscript. Almost all of the first volumes contain pictures that he commissioned from various artists and then pasted in the appropriate places. In the later volumes these gaps are no longer filled; it is not known why Rehbein no longer had any illustrations made. However, he tried to insert purchased woodcuts to replace the missing pictures.

The illustrations commissioned by Rehbein are characterized by a remarkable lack of historical perspective; For example, Lübeck, even in the earliest times, is always presented as it was presented to the viewer in Rehbein's time, and the armies of the 12th century also appear in clothing and armament like armies of the 16th century, with arquebuses and field snakes .

In terms of content, Rehbein does not know how to clearly separate history and legend . Facts and fiction mix with him, which is why his chronicle is not to be regarded as a purely historical work according to today's understanding and his information must be read with caution. In return, however, he passed on a rich fund of old Lübeck legends that would have been forgotten without him, which gives his work in this area special value.

Lore

The original manuscript came into the possession of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in the 19th century and was entrusted to the Lübeck City Library as a deposit in 1899 . It is now in the manuscript collection here. It was restored in 2001/2002 with funds from the Grautoff Foundation named after Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff .

A copy (without images) was made as early as the 18th century, which came to the city library with the Scharbausch Library and was digitized in 2018

The archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck has a copy made by Hermann Schröder (1798-1856), which is no longer accessible due to water damage and fungal attack. ~

Illustrations from the Lübeck Chronicle

Digital copies

  • Booklet A = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 54 digitized
  • Booklet B = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 55 digitized
  • Booklet C = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 56 digitized
  • Booklet D (1227-1299) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 57 digitized
  • Booklet G (1378-1427) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 60 digitized
  • Booklet H (1427-1482) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 61 digitized
  • Book I (1482-1509) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 62 digitized
  • Booklet L (1549–1574) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 64 digitized
  • Booklet M (1575-1620) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 65 digitized
  • Hinric Rebens Chronic u. Raths line (register) = Ms. Lub. 2 ° 66 digitized

literature

  • Rehbein's Lübeck Chronicle and its illustrations , in: Heimatblätter - Mitteilungen des Verein für Heimatschutz , January / February 1939 edition
  • Friedrich Bruns : On the life story of the chronicler Heinrich Rehbein , in: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 1900 ( digitized version), pp. 166–168
  • Friedrich Bruns: The older Lübschen council lines. In: ZVLGA Volume 27 (1933), pp. 90 ff.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Rehbein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 712.
  2. ^ History of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 9, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vlga.de
  3. ^ Signature Ms. Lub. 2 ° 54-65
  4. ↑ Introducing the Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff Foundation , press archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, accessed on October 9, 2011
  5. ↑ Volume 1 (Ms. Lub. 4 ° 67), Volume 2 1476-1612 (Ms. Lub. 4 ° 68)
  6. ↑ Signature 08.01, 899
personal data
SURNAME Rehbein, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehbein, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1629
Place of death Lübeck