Tileman Dothias Wiarda

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Tileman Dothias Wiarda (1746–1826)

Tileman or Tilemann Dothias Wiarda (born October 18, 1746 in Emden , † March 7, 1826 in Aurich ) was an East Frisian historian and first secretary of the East Frisian landscape .

Commemorative plaque of the city on his former home in Aurich

He comes from an old West Frisian family. His father was Georg Ludwig Wiarda (born January 26, 1711, † May 3, 1781), first secretary of the landscape. His mother was Anna Elisabeth Loesing (1716–1773). The two had been married since 1745.

Life

Soon after his birth, Tileman Dothias Wiarda moved with his parents to Aurich in 1749. There he attended the Ulricianum grammar school . In April 1765 he began studying law at the University of Duisburg . In September 1766 he moved to the University of Halle . In 1768 he returned to Aurich and became an auscultator with the East Frisian government, and in March 1770 lawyer at the city and district court. On January 1, 1781, he was appointed assistant councilor to the government, but in May he moved to the East Frisian countryside to be his father's successor. Wiarda had already gained a good reputation by then. When a delegation was sent to Berlin in 1789 to respond to complaints from the Prussian government, Wiarda was named one of the members. The success of the delegation was attributed to him.

In the following years Wiarda was very productive as a writer and probably worked his way through countless files available to him. His literature is considered to be less exciting, but meticulous and dry (ADB). However, he was not the only chronicler; the pastor Johann Dietrich Funk had recently worked on a multi-volume East Frisian Chronicle .

With the defeat of Prussia in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt , the Prussian era ended in 1806. East Friesland was first assigned to Holland and then to the Ems-Oriental department of the First French Empire . With Napoleon, new laws were introduced and the old structures were dissolved. Wiarda was elected Land Syndikus in 1808 . When staff was needed for the new structures, he decided to report and so he became the French prefectural council . In 1813 Napoleon fell and with him his order. East Frisia went to Hanover in 1815. With that the landscape constitution became valid again and Wiarda was reinstated as state syndic, which he remained until his death. He wanted to write down his experiences in further books on East Frisian history and publish as much as possible. He wrote into old age and died on March 7, 1826.

The writer

Why Wiarda began looking into the story is not known. But as the secretary of an institution as old as the East Frisian landscape and as a lawyer in a country with an old jurisprudence that was so different from Prussian laws, it was also written in Old Frisian , a language that was no longer spoken in its time probably the environment that gave the impetus.

His first book was From the Diet of the Frisians in the Middle Ages at Upstalsboom , which appeared in 1777. Given the context, it is easy to understand that he wrote a book about the Old Frisian language. His main work is without question Die Ostfriesische Geschichte in nine volumes (later expanded). In terms of meaning, it can only be compared with the work of Ubbo Emmius (1547–1625). His work was received with so much applause that the estates felt compelled to offer Wiarda a gift of money, which he refused (probably also to preserve his independence).

He was a member of numerous scientific associations of his time:

In 1817 the law faculty of the University of Kiel awarded him an honorary doctorate in both rights.

Works

  • 1777, From the Diet of the Frisians in the Middle Ages at Upstalsboom , digitized
  • 1784, history of the extinct old Frisian or Saxon language , digitized
  • 1786, Old Frisian dictionary , digitized
  • 1800, About German first names and gender names , digitized
  • 1800, family tables of some East Frisian mainlings, to explain the history
  • 1805, Asega book: an old Frisian code of the Rüstringer , digitized
  • 1808, history and interpretation of the Salic law and the Malberg glosses , digitized
  • 1820, arbitrariness of the Brockmanns, a free Frisian people , digitized
  • Fragments of the history and topography of the city of Aurich up to 1813 , compiled from his estate and published

Partly also described in Volume 10, Volume 11, Volume 12:

  • 1817, Latest East Frisian History 1786–1806 , digitized
  • 1817, Latest East Frisian History 1806–1813 , digitized

family

He married Teelke Susanna de Pottere on September 11, 1782 (December 7, 1752 - February 27, 1800). Her daughter Helena Maria (* June 12, 1783 - September 7, 1865) was married to the government councilor Anton Ulrich Detmers (* March 31, 1777 - April 5, 1817).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.koeblergerhard.de/Rechtsfakultaeten/Duisburg64.htm
  2. ^ Johann Dietrich Funk, Ost-Friesische Chronick , Volume 1, digitized
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 257.

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personal data
SURNAME Wiarda, Tileman Dothias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiarda, Tilemann Dothias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian historian, first secretary of the East Frisian landscape, state syndic for East Frisia
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1826
Place of death Aurich