Abraham Hinckelmann
Abraham Hinckelmann (also: Hinkelmann; born May 2, 1652 chub, † February 11, 1695 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist.
Life
Born the son of a councilman and pharmacist Martin Hinckelmann and his wife Anna (nee Thirty ), he had been prefigured in his hometown and moved into the high school in 1664 in Freiberg. There, for a university course prepared, he set out on 8 October 1668, the University of Wittenberg, where he studied with Abraham Calov and on April 28, 1670 acquired the academic degree of Magister.
After he had spent four years in Wittenberg, he took a job in 1672 as rector of the school in Gardelegen. Only three years later he moved on January 7, 1675 in the same capacity at the Katharineum to Lübeck. Here he married the same year Elizabeth Schirmer, the widow of his predecessor Hermann Nottelmann. In 1685 he went as a deacon at the Hamburg St. Nikolai Church, received his doctorate in 1687 at Kiel University as a doctor of theology and was appointed in the same year by Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse -Darmstadt, the General Superintendent, Church Council and court preacher.
In this role, he held both the post of honorary professor of theology at the University of Giessen. In 1689 he was called back to Hamburg, where he took over the post of senior pastor at St. Catherine's Church. As representatives of pietism he also was involved in the religious disputes of his time, especially in a heated argument between him, Johann Winckler, the senior pastor at St. Michael and Johann Heinrich Horb, the senior pastor of St. Nicolai, Johann Friedrich Mayer, the Lutheran- orthodox minded senior pastor of St. Jacobi. Hinckelmann was for religious reasons, a staunch opponent of the Opera at the goose market (now the Hamburg State Opera ) and fought them fiercely in the first Hamburg theater dispute.
Literally, he has made particularly as orientalist a name. Its particular merit is the publication of the first ever printed complete Arabic edition of the Koran in 1694th
Some of the jobs created by Hinckelmann hymns were included in the Hallische Hymns by Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen 1704 and so was widely disseminated in the 18th century. None of them, however, is still to be found in the hymnal.
Works (selection)
- Testamentum et pactiones inter Muhammedem et Christianae fidei cultores. (Arabic and Latin) Brendeke, Hamburg 1690
- Al- Coranus immersive Lex Islamitica Muhammedis, Filii Abdallae, Pseudoprophetae, ad optimorum Codd. Fidem edita ex museo Abr. Hincckelm. D. (Arabic and Latin) Schultz- Schiller, Hamburg 1694
- Tertullian's Apology