Ubbo Emmius

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

Curriculum vitae

Ubbo Emmius was born as the son of the Evangelical Reformed pastor Emme Dyken and his wife Elke Tjarda, mayor's daughter from the north ( Ostfriesland), in 1547 Greetsiel. He attended the Latin school in Emden and then the illustrious school in Bremen. Two more years of education at the Latin School North ( East Frisia) followed. 1570 Emmius studied at the University of Rostock, where the historian David Chytraeus sustainably exercised 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 on foot to the south. On his journey along the Rhine, he stopped off in Heidelberg and Freiburg, Basel visited in the grave of his model Erasmus of Rotterdam and finally got to his second study Geneva. "Here he witnessed the theological party maze that led to the final split between Lutherans and Reformed in endless battles; in this city, in which the new humanism, Reformation line was given, he found his firm stand, the religious and the political. "

1578 he returned to East Friesland. He was in the north alternatively Rectory and Rector of the Latin school offered. He opted for teaching and spent nine years rector of his former training center that now bears the name Ulrich school. 1587 he was the victim of religious dispute the East Frisian Graf family and moved in 1588 to Leer, where he rector of the Latin school of today Ubbo Emmius High School, was also.

1596 he followed a call to Groningen and became the founder of the university there. In December 1625 he died at an old age.

Works

Much of his scientific activity refers to the religious and political disputes of his time. From the Netherlands, he led a written fight against the Lutheran court party in Aurich and the absolute prince rule in East Frisia. His enlightening books and writings were publicly burned.

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 advocated the right of resistance of the people against the authorities, characterize him as a precursor of parliamentarism and the Revolutionary Right, from the direct line of Jean- Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution leads.

• Opus novum chronologicum: pluribus partibus constans. - Groningae: Elsevir / Sassius, 1619 Digitized edition.
• Appendix Genealogica illustrando operi chronologico adjecta. - Groningae. Elsevir, 1620 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf

Family

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

Eponym

After Ubbo Emmius are named

• The Ubbo Emmius school in Leer
• The Ubbo Emmius School (primary school) in Greetsiel
• The Scholengemeenschap Ubbo Emmius ( comprehensive school ) in Stadskanaal
• The Ubbo Emmius clinic in Aurich and north
• The Ubbo Emmius road, for example, in the north, Grossefehn, Aurich, Emden and Leer, and the Ubbo Emmiusstraat in Groningen and other Dutch places
• The Ubbo Emmiussingel ( hillfort ) in Groningen

Expenditure

• Ubbo Emmius: Frisian history. 6 volumes. From the Latin translated by Erich von Reeken. Wörner, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-88782-000-2.