Erdmann Neumeister

Erdmann Neumeister ( born May 12, 1671 at Uichteritz; † August 18, 1756 in Hamburg ) was a German poet hymns, poeticists and theologian of the Baroque period.

Life

Neumeister was the son of originating from Wurzbach schoolmaster, organist and manager Johann Neumeister and Margaretha nee Francke from Weida. He attended after receiving a scholarship like city office from April 1686 to January 1691, the Electorate of Saxony country Pforta. From the spring of 1691, he studied in Leipzig Protestant theology and poetics. On February 25, 1694 Neumeister Bachelor of Arts and was also master. In 1695 he presented his habilitation thesis " De poetis germanicis " and was a lecturer in poetry. During a cure in Bibra the vicar Büttner 1696 took him as a substitute. From 1697 worked as Neumeister Bibraer pastor and adjunct of the Eckart Bergische superintendency; first even under great material difficulties. He married on November 24, 1697 in White Rock Johanna Elisabeth Meister, a daughter of the ducal master chef Christoph Meister. In 1704 he succeeded to be hired as Hofdiakon in White Rock at the local court. Here he came into contact with the composer John Philipp Krieger. Already in 1706 he became court preacher, Consistory and superintendent in Sorau in Lower Lusatia, when he accompanied Anna Maria of Saxe- Weissenfels after their marriage Erdmann II of Promnitz. Already there began his life-long theological struggle against Pietism. In Sorau he had close contact with Georg Philipp Telemann. Since its count's men turned towards more and more pietistic views Neumeister Sorau left in strife and successfully applied in Hamburg. From 1715 until his death in 1756 he was senior pastor at St. James Church in Hamburg. His intercession to commit Johann Sebastian Bach as organist, was in 1720 the parish council on deaf ears. In 1747 he held his cheering sermon on the 50th anniversary office. Neumeister died 85 years old and almost blind August 18, 1756th His grave in the church was destroyed in a bomb attack as many others in 1944, just a porträtierendes him larger than life oil painting behind the pulpit remained.

Work

Neumeister wrote numerous cantata texts and led for the first time in this genus modeled after the opera recitatives and arias one. A total of five of his seminal texts by Johann Sebastian Bach 1711-1714 set to music ( Just as the rain and the snow from heaven, BWV 18, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, BWV 24, BWV 28 and He who loves me will keep my word, BWV 59). Other composers who set to music his own librettos, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach were, Johann Philipp Krieger and Georg Philipp Telemann. Neumeister's literary work also includes numerous devotional works and youth poems moral and satirical nature. Meusel Encyclopedia, Vol.2 (1810 ), pp. 81-98 recorded nearly 200 publications by Neumeister.

At the age of 24 he had in 1695 under the title De Poetis Germanicis written a witty, sharply critical overview of the entire former German Baroque literature. Only by Günter Merwalds Germanization of 1978, this mocking - critical statements that contradict the generally accepted Baroque canon, surprisingly, a broad public have become accessible. In 1707 he published an already resulting in Leipzig poetic writing under the title The very latest way to a pure and gallant poetry to arrive, which he had issue by his friend Christian Friedrich Hunold, since the contained secular love poems of his youth not be reconciled with his clergy.

Kinship connections

Erdmann Neumeister had various kinship connections to theologians and humanists of his time:

  • John Francke (1604-1684), Superintendent to Weida, was the older brother of Neumeister's grandfather Friedrich Francke
  • John God Werthmüller ( Hamburg 1743 - 1828 Itzehoe ) called " Müller of Itzehoe " writer, was Erdmann Neumeister's grandson and son of Caroline Ehrenmuth Neumeister
  • Children: Adolphine Christiane, Erdmann Gotthold, Erdmann Gottlieb, Erdmann God value, Caroline Ehrenmuth, Augustine Elisabeth (1726 marriage to Christian Wilhelm Volland ), Marianne Ernestine (1731 marriage to Johann Daniel Kluge )

Erdmann Gotthold, the eldest son became superintendent in Eckartsberga, Erdmann Neumeister Gottlieb became deacon in 1739 at the St. Jacob's Church in Hamburg, but already died in 1742, his brother succeeded him Erdmann God value 1742 in the office of deacon.

Ancestors as ancestry, source: Stammtafeln Francke, 6th Edition 1999, Plate X

Remembrance

August 18 in the Protestant calendar name.

Works (selection)

  • Valedictorian over JGCarlowitz, Schulpforta 1691, Archives and Library of the country Pforta
  • De Poetis Germanicis hujus seculi. Reprint edition d v. 1695 German translation of Günter Merwald, ed. Franz Heiduk. Bern: Francke 1978
  • M. Erdmann Neumeister Abgenöthigte defensins remitting Scriptures / resist L. John Georgii Albini defamatory Scriptures / he anhänget his absurd and advertised Disputationi Inaugurali irraisonnabel, alber and absurd Coelln 1695
  • The Wailing Zion on the white rocks over the untimely death ... Case Of ... Mr. Johann Adolphen / Hertzogen to Saxony ... / On mourning day ... The Burial / The 25 Julii, An. 1697 .... by Erdmann Neumeister entworffen / hp Biebra Leipzig: Fleischer, in 1697.
  • Praise - poems of the so -called farmers Dog / Or Fürstl. Body - dog to Weissenfels: With all kinds of moral teachings and pleasant Galanterien Morally vorgestellet / from a virtue - friend and vice - enemy undated, circa 1700
  • Poetic fruit of the lips in clergy arias, all Sundays, fixed and Apostles days [ ... ] in the Princely. Saxon. Castle chapel to Weissenfels to Kirchen.Music passed Bibra 1700
  • Access to the mercy-seat of Jesus Christ. Weissenfels 1703
  • Sacred cantatas. 1705
  • Words of the wise, Weissenfels 1707
  • The very latest way to a pure and gallant poetry to reach, ed. Christian Friedrich Hunold. Hamburg 1707 passim
  • The Priestly lips in preservation of doctrine, Leipzig and Görlitz 1714
  • Fivefold church devotions, consisting in ... arias, cantatas and odes. Leipzig 1717
  • Sacred Sundays = work, Leipzig 1717
  • Praefat. before Mr. John D. Frid. Mayers, P.P. Past and ad D. Jacob Hainb. Sabbath Hamburg, Hamburg 1717
  • Praef. before the Engeländischen Pred. in Londen, Thomae Brooks Tract. golden Aepffel before young men and women, as well as an honorary crown before the men and matrons, or: what it means for a bliss sey when bey times is pious, and for a special honor, if you are an old student of Christ. Hamburg 1717
  • First Protestant blessing in Hamburg, Weissenfels and Hamburg 1718
  • New spiritual poems auff all Sundays and feast days, 2 parts, Eisenach 1718
  • Holy Week work, 4 parts, Hamburg 1718 & 1719
  • Spiritual Bibliotheck, Hamburg 1719
  • Sermons of new people, Hamburg 1719
  • Communion- book, White Rock 1719
  • Epistolische gleaning the ordentl. Epistle Sermons, Hamburg 1720
  • Conc. Poenit. , Hamburg 1720
  • Praef. before Mr. M. Phil Frid. Hanens, Meckl. life and deeds Ignatii Lojolae, famous Stifftern of the Jesuits Order, rust ( ock? ) And Neu- Brandenburg 1721
  • Short proof that the current cleanup activities with the so-called Reformed or Calvinists throughout the Catechismo schnurstraks contrary lauffe: together with an appendix, therein the cleanup points are examined. With Approv attitude and licensure C. C. Ministeriee, Hamburg 1721
  • Praef. Long before Mr. John Mach, gewesenenPred. in Neustadt, in Holstein, Catechißmus School, Hamburg
  • Psalms, hymns and Spiritual songs. 1755
  • Hern. Erdmann Neumeister, Pastoris to St. Jacobi in Hamburg, picked up holy hands to Elohim, that is, Altmulig Gebethe to devotional exercise of true Christianity, from its witty Gebeth books worn together by a lover of Neumeisterischen Schrifften, Hamburg 1756

Literature (selection )

  • Heinrich Döring: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Publisher Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol 3, pp. 58 to 65 ( Online)
  • Max von forest mountain: Neumeister, Erdmann. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1886, pp. 543-548.
  • Max of mountain forest ". Erdmann Neumeister attempt a characteristic ", in: Germanic- Romanic monthly 2 (1910 ), 115-123
  • Henrike Rucker (ed.): Erdmann Neumeister ( 1671-1756 ). Forerunner of the Protestant church cantata. Weimar: Hain -Verlag, o.J. ( Weißenfelser cultural traditions 2). ISBN 3-930215-51-9
  • Ute -Maria Viswanathan: The Poetics Erdmann Neumeister and their relationship to the baroque and gallant poetry teaching. Diss Ann Arbor 1989
  • Wolfgang Miersemann: Neumeister, Erdmann. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8, pp. 170 f ( digitized ).
  • Uwe Riedel: Erdmann Neumeister, biographical mosaic, self- Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030166-7
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