Zacharias Hestius

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Unkersdorf Church
Königstein around 1650 copper engraving, photo H.-P. Haack

Zacharias Hestius (born October 8, 1590 in Unkersdorf , † May 25, 1669 or June 1, 1669 in Königstein ) was a German Lutheran pastor, cantor and vice-music director of the Dresden court orchestra .

Life

His father, Johann Hestius d. J. (1554–1632), Lutheran preacher in Unkersdorf from 1582, was appointed pastor at the Dreikönigskirche Dresden in 1598 . The mother was Sara born. Sittig, was the daughter of a forest worker in Moritzburg.

After a few years as a chapel boy in Dresden in the court chapel, he was accepted in 1607 in Schulpforta . In 1611 he went to the Leucorea in Wittenberg or, according to another source, to the University of Leipzig with a scholarship from Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony and also earned income from poetry. In 1615 he came to Luckau in Lower Lusatia as a cantor , and from 1616–1624 he was a teacher and cantor at the Princely School in Meissen . In 1624 he was appointed first as a tenor and then from 1624 or 1632 as Vice Kapellmeister of the Dresden court orchestra under Heinrich Schütz . During the 30-year war he suffered existential hardship. His letter of appeal from 1634 for bread and wine testifies to this. In 1641 he worked as a pastor in Königstein, for the last 19 years with the help of his son-in-law Joh. Werner.

family

  • Brother: Johann, notary and provisions manager
  • Sister: Maria, married. with Christoph Buläus, pastor in Kötzschenbroda. Father of Christophorus Bulaeus
  • Sister: Anna Maria, married in 1622 with Augustin Prescher , pastor of Obergruna, Freiberg, later in Kötzschenbroda
  • 1. Marriage to Concordia geb. Potitscher, daughter of the town clerk of Meißen, married in 1616, 5 children
  • 2. Marriage to Magdalena geb. Reinhard, daughter of the superintendent in Pirna

Children from the 2nd marriage:

  • Maria Magdalena, married. Werner
  • Dan. Gottfried, lawyer, at the Princely School in Meissen until 1660
  • Catharina Elisabeth, married. to Dan. Kirchner, Schösser in Belzig
  • Christina Margaretha, married. to Joh. Ernst Cadner, Senator in Pirna
  • Anna Maria, b. 1617, m. to Gabriel Hain, paper merchant and miller in Königstein / Biela

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pastor's Book of Saxony
  2. ↑ a b c d Sources encyclopedia of musicians and music scholars, p. 134.
  3. ↑ https://pfarrerbuch.de/sachsen/person/554580034 Pfarrerbuch Saxony
  4. ↑ Corpus Inscriptorum Vitebergense (CIV)
  5. ↑ Zacharias Hestius in Pfarrerbuch Saxony
  6. ↑ Former conductor (= Kpm), church and Cammer-Compositeurs, conductors Staatskapelle Dresden
  7. ↑ Garden gnome meets high culture , saechsische.de , September 22, 2004
  8. ^ Karl August Müller: Research in the field of modern history. Volumes 1-2, p. 176 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hestius, Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cantor and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Unkersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1669
Place of death Koenigstein