Ubbo Emmius

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Ubbo Emmius
Ubbo Emmius
Birthplace of Ubbo Emmius in Greetsiel
Memorial plaque at the place of birth in Greetsiel

Ubbo Emmius (born December 5, 1547 in Greetsiel , † December 9, 1625 in Groningen ) was an Evangelical Reformed theologian , historian , educator and founding rector of the University of Groningen ( Netherlands ).

Life

Ubbo Emmius was born in Greetsiel in 1547 as the son of the Lutheran pastor Emme Dyken and his wife Elke Tjarda, the mayor's daughter from Norden (East Friesland) . He attended the Latin school in Emden and then the illustrious grammar school in Bremen . Two more years of training at the North Latin School (East Friesland) followed. In 1570 Emmius studied at the University of Rostock , where the historian David Chyträus had a lasting influence on him. In 1574 he had to return to Greetsiel due to the death of his father.

Two years later he left the East Frisian fishing village and walked south. On his hike along the Rhine he made stops in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau , visited the grave of his role model Erasmus von Rotterdam in Basel and finally came to Geneva, his second place of study . “Here he witnessed the theological party chaos, which in endless battles led to the definitive rift between Lutherans and Reformed; In this city, where humanism was given the new, Reformation line, it found its fixed stand, both religious and political. "

In 1578 he returned to East Frisia . In the north, he was offered a parish office and rectorate of the Latin school as an alternative. He decided to teach and was rector of his former training facility, which is now called Ulrichsgymnasium , for nine years . In 1587 he fell victim to the religious dispute of the East Frisian count family and moved to Leer in 1588 , where he was also rector of the Latin School, today's Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium .

In 1596 he followed a call to Groningen and in 1614 became the founding rector of the local University of Groningen . In December 1625 he died very old.

Ubbo Emmius was married twice. In 1581 he married his first wife Theda Tjabbern (1544–1583) from the north, a relative of Emden's mayor Onno Tjabbern . After her death he married Margaretha van Bergen (1566–1636) in 1586 . Of the children only two survived the father: the daughter Elisabeth (died 1629) and his son Wessel Emmius (1589–1654), who later became a preacher in Groningen.

Works

Much of his scientific work relates to the religious and political disputes of his time. From the Netherlands he waged a written battle against the Lutheran court party in Aurich and the absolute princely rule in East Friesland. His educational books and writings were burned in public.

Ubbo Emmius' map of East Frisia from 1595.

His most famous works are the Rerum Frisicarum historiae libri 60 , "the sixty books of Frisian history", provided with a detailed map of East Frisia. His political writings and correspondence with the leading men of his time, in which he represented the right of the people to resist the authorities, mark him as a forerunner of parliamentarism and revolutionary law , from which a direct line to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and into the French Revolution leads.

  • Translation: Frisian History . 6 volumes. Translated from Latin by Erich von Reeken. Wörner, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-88782-000-2 .
  • Opus chronologicum novum: pluribus partibus constans . - Groningae: Elsevir / Sassius, 1619.
  • Appendix genealogica illustrando operi chronologico adjecta . - Groningae: Elsevir, 1620.

Namesake

After Ubbo Emmius are named:

  • the Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium in Leer
  • the Ubbo Emmius School (primary school) in Greetsiel
  • the Ubbo Emmius Scholengemeenschap (comprehensive school) in Stadskanaal , Veendam and Winschoten in the province of Groningen , the Netherlands
  • the Ubbo-Emmius-Klinik in Aurich and Norden
  • the Ubbo-Emmius-Straße z. B. in Norden , Großefehn , Aurich , Emden , Marienhafe and Leer , or the Ubbo-Emmiusstraat in Groningen and other Dutch locations
  • the Ubbo-Emmiussingel (ring wall) in Groningen
  • an Arriva Spurt railcar
  • the Ubbo-Emmius Society for historical-political research in the Ems-Dollart region

literature

  • Gudrun Anne Dekker: Ubbo Emmius: Life, Environment, Legacy and Present . Paperback.
  • Ernst Friedländer :  Emmius, Ubbo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 89 f.
  • Derk de Haan: Ubbo Emmius , in: Derk de Haan (Ed.): 400 years of Ulrichsgymnasium Norden. 1567-1967 . Ulrichsgymnasium, Norden 1967, p. 88
  • WJ Kuppers (Ed.): Ubbo Emmius. Een Oostfries leererde in Groningen / Ubbo Emmius. An East Frisian scholar in Groningen . Groningen and Emden 1994 - contains an extensive bibliography
  • Günther Möhlmann:  Emmius, Ubbo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 486 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Ubbo Emmius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of the matriculation of Ubbo Emme in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Derk de Haan: Ubbo Emmius
  3. ↑ Digitized edition: Opus chronologicum novum: pluribus partibus constans , accessed on September 11, 2016
  4. ↑ Digitized edition: Appendix genealogica illustrando operi chronologico adjecta of the University and State Library Düsseldorf , accessed on September 11, 2016
  5. ↑ website of ubbo emmius Scholengemeenschap , accessed on July 18, 2015.
  6. ^ Website of the Ubbo Emmius Society
personal data
SURNAME Emmius, Ubbo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian Reformed theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH Greetsiel , County of East Friesland , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1625
Place of death Groningen , Republic of the Seven United Netherlands