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- Was the pastor of St Leonhard Church in Friesau, Germany from 1638 - 1646 according to http://www.friesau.de/wehrkirche-st-leonhard/pfarrerliste-copyrightinfos.html. He was the 3rd pastor of that church.
After he graduated from the University at Jena he tutored the children of the “Sulfur Mountain” Lord at Breittenbach for 1-1/2 years. For the rest of the time until he became pastor at Friesau he tutored the children of Andreas Steiner. At it was probably there that he met his future wife, Elisabetha Steiner.
Michael shows up in both Allgemeine Deutsch Biographie (Universal German Biography) and Deutsches Sagenbuch (German Book of Legends), and also in the catalog of funeral sermons (along with Stephan Thomä and Herman Crell). He wrote and preached four funeral sermons. He also wrote and published several pamphlets, including his Congratulations to Cordula on her wedding date (she must have been Daddy's little girl) and an opinion that compared the Vatican to Gog, Magog and the other devils. He's also in the biography of the Sabbatai Zevi, the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah, as one of the Protestant leaders of the opposition.
He was also the pastor of Ebersdorf.
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Buchenröder: Michael B., born 10 October 1610 in Steinfeld near Hildburghausen and educated in Rodach and Coburg, studied at [the University of] Jena theology and philosophy, acted as private tutor in Breitenbach in Thuringia and Möschlitz in the Vogtland and then was pastor of Friesau and Ebersdorf and finally in 1646 Superintendent of Heldburg, where he died 18 July 1682. Through his writings, in three of which he strongly rejected partly intensified and partly new attacks on the Protestant faith appearing after the Thirty Years War and in which a piece of cultural history of his times is described, namely, Die Lästerungen des Kapuziners P. Markus ab Ariano [The Blasphemies of the Capuchin Father Markus of Ariano], Den angeblich damals neu erstandenen Messias [The Alleged Then Newly Resurrected Messiah] and Die üppig aufgeschossenen Wundermänner [The Abundant Constant Miracle-Workers], he has earned an honorable name. The same are listed in: Kirchengallerie der Reu?ischen Länder [Gallery of the Churches of the Reuss Lands], Part II. p. 96 [At that time, the Vogtland belonged to the Counts von Reuss, the same family that has been naming, since 1197, all the sons Heinrich after Henry VI, the Holy Roman Emperor]
Author: Brückner.
Source: Buchenröder, Michael, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [Universal German Biography, Volume] 3 (1876), p. 476 [Online Version];
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719. The Poltergeist of Schwickershausen
[Page 473] In the District of Heldburg lies a village with the name of Schwickerhausen, and in it there lived a farmer called Hans or Heinrich Kegel. The week before Easter in the year 1666 [Palm Sunday, 8 or 18 April 1666], he heard a little tap under the standing bed in the room and caught sight of the ghost, which looked like the Hinzelmann [household fairy], had the figure of a child, but with a golden crown on its head. It said only that it was an angel, and that it was the spirit of a recently deceased woman. With a little bit of courage, he held out his hand and felt that its little hand was icy cold, and shuddered. But it promised anyone, who holds out his or her hand to it, a treasure of nine thousand ducats, which made the people so brave, that for such a considerable sum, they held out their hands to the devil and his grandmother's hand with joy. From there, the racket went off in the house until nobody could bear it, and from the house it spread with the frightful ghost to the whole village, so that the peasant at wits' end over their bodies and their souls sent for the pastors of Hellingen and Heldburg, who went off together, the Heldburger called Magister Buchenröder and the Hellinger Johann Hase. They said to the peasant of Schwickershäusen, that they wanted to offer their own handshake for such a filthy bargain to the living Devil in person, which frightened the peasant almost to death. Now, the pastors began to heal with honest prayers and sermons, which did not please the spirit in the least; it cried out, "Give me a child, so I would leave!” – “The hell you shall have, but no child!” exclaimed the Pastor of Hellingen, and since he would not give the spirit [page 474] any soft words, it let out a long and steady stream of profanities [literally, “cauterwauled with broad words for a long time”]. Since the ghost would not yield, neither did the Hellinger pastor, until his extraordinary persistence after [1 or 11 June 1666] the Monday night after Trinity Sunday brought the spirit to the surrender. Thus it had knocked and pounded, rumbled and blasphemed three times for three weeks, yet he was finally subdued by the prayers, as long as the preachers stayed with [literally, "listened to”] the Scriptures: But we want to stop at the prayers and words of the Gospel, and so must the hobgoblin from Schwickershausen, the spirit of superstition, surrender; however, the true, shape-shifting Hinzelmann did not really surrender at the same time, because it was still in the very recent times and crowds are flocking at the same place to a faith-healer and wise man, who can do more than just taking money [literally, “eating the bread”].
Source:
Ludwig Bechstein, Deutsches Sagenbuch [German Book of Legends]. (Meersburg and Leipzig, 1930), pages 473-474.
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The following from:
From Johann Heinrich Zedler, Grosses völlständiges Universal Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste . . . , Dritter Band, B – Bi [ Great Complete Universal Dictionary of All Knowledge and Arts . . . , Third Volume, B – Bi ] ( Halle an der Saale and Leipzig : Author, 1733 ), columns 1764 – 1765 :
Buchenröder ( Michael gebürtig von Steinfeld, war erst 9 Jahr Pfarrer zu Frießen im Voigtlande, hernoch aber 34 Jahr Pastor und Superintendent zu Heldburg in Franken, allwo er A. 1682. den 13. Jul. im 71. Jahre seines Alters gestorben. Seine Schrifften sind : de duabus alis Gog & Magog ; de irruptione Gog et Magog in montes Israël, horumque finali excidio. Witte Biogr. Großens Jubel=Priester.
Buchenröder ( Michael, native of Steinfeld, was at first for 9 years Pastor of Friesau in the Vogtland, then for 34 years Pastor and Superintendent of Heldburg in Franconia, where he died on 13 July AD 1682 in the 71st year of his age. His writings are : de duabus alis Gog & Magog ; de irruptione Gog et Magog in montes Israël, horumque finali excidio [ Latin, “The Wings of the Duo, Gog & Magog ; the Invasion from Gog & Magog of the Mountains of Israel, and Their Final Destruction” ]. See Biogr[aphical Dictionary, published in 1732 ]. Grossens Jubel=Priester [ Rev. Johann Matthias Groß, 1676 – 1748, Historisches Lexicon Evangelischer Jubel-Priester = Historical Dictionary of Evangelical Jubilee-Pastors ]
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The following was compiled by Wilbur Hanson Kalb:
Michael Buchenröder is in Dr August Beck’s 1865 biography of Ernst the Pious, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, because his advice and services were valued by the Duke. When the Duke died in 1675, funeral sermons were preached in his name throughout the Duchy. One of them came from Buchenröder. But, as shown by Google Books’ search engines, he appears only once in the main body of the biography, when Dr Beck, the Ducal Archivist of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha under Duke Ernst II, writes about piety, the defining characteristic of the Duke. Looks like the Duke had been corresponding with the Rev. Buchenröder.
The German original :
Die frühzeitige Gewöhnung an jene geistlichen Beschäftigungen machte auf Herzog Ernsts empfängliches Gemüth einen so tiefen und unauslöschlichen Eindruck, daß er beim Heranwachsen auf weltliche Vergnügungen mit fast gleichgiltigem Auge hinblickte. Sein Sinn ward von der Vergänglichkeit alles Irdischen auf die Ewigkeit des Ueberirdischen hingelenkt. So sagte er einst zu dem Superintendenten Michael Buchenröder zu Heldburg : „was hat man doch von zeitlichen Ergötzungen in der Welt? nichts als Beschwerungen und Müdigkeit ; das ewige Gut macht rechten Muth”. In allen seinen Handlungen, selbst als er den Jahren nach noch Kind war, offenbarte sich eine christliche Gesinnung, ein bedächtiger Ernst und jene heilige warme Liebe, welche alle Menschen mild umfaßt.
The English translation :
The early habituation to those spiritual occupations made so deep and indelible an impression on Duke Ernst’s receptive mind that, when he was growing up, he looked at worldly pleasures with almost an indifferent eye. His purpose was drawn from the impermanence of all earthly things to the permanence of the supernatural. As he once said to the Superintendent Michael Buchenröder of Heldburg : “What do we have of temporal pleasures in the world? Nothing but weight and fatigue ; the eternal good makes proper courage.” In all his actions, even when he was still a child, a Christian sentiment, a deliberate earnestness, and that sacred warm love, which gently embraces all men, was revealed.
Source : Dr August [ Emil August ] Beck ( 1812 – 1874 ), Ernst der Fromme, Herzog zu Sachsen-Gotha und Altenburg : Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des siebenzehten Jahrhunderts [ Ernest the Pious, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg : A Contribution to the History of the Seventeenth Century ] ( Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach : Herman Böhlau, 1865 ), Part One, pages 27 – 28 ; funeral sermon, Part One, page 19 ; brief biography, Part Two, page 10.
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here is Michael Buchenröder’s thumbnail biography from the 1865 biography of Duke Ernst the Pious, followed by the English translation. This is the part that says that the Duke valued the Rev. Buchenröder’s advice and services :
The German transcription :
B u c h e n r ö d e r, Michael, geb. 18. Oct. 1610 zu Steinfeld bei Hildburghausen, wurde zu Eißhausen, Rodach und Coburg gebildet, studirte 1632 – 1636 zu Jena Philosophie und Theologie. Er wurde dann Erzieher zu Breitenbach in Thüringen. 1638 Pfarrer zu Friesa, 1646 Superintendent zu Heldburg, wo er 13. Juli 1682 starb. Herzog Ernst schätzte ihn hoch. S. Joh. Werner Krauß, Beyträge zur S. Hildburgh. Kirchen- Schul- und Landeshistorie. Greitz. 4o. I, 171. 388. 502. III 353.
The English translation :
B u c h e n r ö d e r, Michael, b. 18 Oct. 1610 in Steinfeld bei Hildburghausen, was raised in Eißhausen, Rodach and Coburg, studied Philosophy and Theology 1632 – 1636 at Jena. He was then teacher in Breitenbach in Thuringia. 1638 Pastor of Friesa, 1646 Superintendent of Heldburg, where he died on 13 July 1682. Duke Ernst valued him highly. See Joh. Werner Krauß, Beyträge zur S. [ not E. ] Hildburgh. Kirchen- Schul- und Landeshistorie [ Contributions to the Explanation of the History of the Churches, Schools and Land of Hildburghausen ]. [ Published in ] Greitz with 4 Volumes. Vol. I, pp. 171, 388, 502. Vol. III, p. 353.
Source : Dr August [ Emil August ] Beck ( 1812 – 1874 ), Ernst der Fromme, Herzog zu Sachsen-Gotha und Altenburg : Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des siebenzehten Jahrhunderts, Zweiter Theil. [ Ernest the Pious, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg : A Contribution to the History of the Seventeenth Century, Second Part. ] ( Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach : Herman Böhlau, 1865 ), page 10.
Michael Buchenröder, born 1610. October 18th, in Steinfeld near Hildburghausen. His father was Nicolaus Buchenröder, resident there, his mother Kunigunda Kilianin. He did the prima literarum rudimenta at the school in Eißhauſen, afterwards at Rodach well, then attended the Raths school in Coburg, from which he was promoted to the grammar school. After he had spent 9 years at Coburg and perfected himself in linguis: & artibus liberalibus that he had been recognized as capable of taking up the Studia academica, he moved to the University of Jena in June 1632, and then for the fourth year remained. His preceptors were in Philosophicis M. Stahl, in linguis Paul Schlevogt, in Theologicis Major Himmel and Sal. Glaſfius. Because the enemy incursion meant that he had lost his entire patrimony, even the house of his grandfather Andreas Kilian's in Rodach, which had come to him in the inheritance, was burned down and put in the ashes, otherwise everything in Francken was also spoiled, he has himself for want the Sumtuum from Jena and to Breitenbach in Thuringen, and with a Schwefelberg gentleman in the 1 1/2 years as an informer for a child. Then he turned to the Vogtland, as he soon found a good condition with the then pastor of Möschlitz and Hoff preacher at the castle, M. Andrea Steiner (who soon afterwards became Adiunctus zu Linienroda and ultimately Archidiaconus and Conſiſtorialis to Regensburg ) The children he informs for a while, and since I did exercise in the preaching, God graciously agreed that in 1638 he went to the parish of Friea and Branch Ebersdorf, where he d. 26. Maj. Dom. I. p. Trin. I gave a probationary sermon and was ordained in the castle. What he endured with this parish for tribulation, persecution, danger of war, plundering and ruin of a parish child within 9 years, has never been consumed from him without tears.
A. 1646. On the 21st Sunday after Trinity he did the prob sermon at Heldburg, received the vocation, and cathedral. I. p. Epiph. 1647, kept his suit, and is cathedral. 6. p. Trinity in the high presence of Duke Ernst of Gotha, inuestiret by the Superintendent General, D. Sal. Glassium, as he has rarely recorded in the church book, or as others report by M. Christoph Laurentii, Superintendten of Königsberg. Regardless of whether he was immediately disposed of by such wonderful and unexpected sending of God from the parish Friesa, who was very dangerous because of the unrest at the time, and was yelped into several security: “Oh, dear Creutz followed him on foot from the Vogtland to the Francken-Land . By being subjected to many adversities, misery, pressures and war troubles in the local area, and even endangering life and limb, Since the local city was overrun by a party of hostile whites. And since they want to set fire to the upper suburb with all their might, because they don't want to let them in, he eats around under fire and bullets and has asked to be saved. Although the danger was very great, that is, that someone would be killed on one side: God gave grace that he could get away unharmed and undamaged, and received so much from an anxious prayer that the threatened fire remained naked , and the soldiers, brokered an amicable transaction and money, withdrew again.
He has the reputation of being loyal to his office and has always been very graciously held by Duke Ernst. He died blissfully 1682 on July 13th and cathedral. V. P. Trinity was buried in the 72nd year of his age, and 44th of the Ministry, after he had been superintendent for 36 years. The corpse sermon is from the Deacon, Lawrence Schumann about Matthew Xl. 28-30. held, and promoted to print. These circumstances are taken from the attached Lebenslauff, as well as what should be further from his family and scriptural community.
In 1638 he married the maid Elisabetha, Steiner's great-great-granddaughter D. Max. Morlini. V. Thoma Licht p. 366 Mr. M. Andreas Steiner, pastor to Möschlitz, his eighteenth-century court daughter, with whom he lived happily for the 44th year and had 15 children, as 11 sons and 4th daughters. Of these, 7 sons and 2nd daughters died before him, the other sons are three of them to the theologico studio, and the fourth to the apothecary art, also all of them together with the two daughters, to honor, and resp. public church offices in his life, all of him (which is a rare happiness) were marred, of which he also had 38th little daughters.
The eldest, Michael Buchenröder, comes downstairs as pastor to Hellingen and Biberschlag for. His most worthy sons, however, Mr. Johann Christoph of Westheim and Mr. Johann Andreas, pastor to Burden, can remember with joy the hundred-year-old goodness of God, which ruled over them and their family (from 1646 onwards, since their blessed grandfather became Superintendent) In this principality. What a grace God would long to ride for them and their people.
The second son, Samuel Buchenröder, is the pastor of Rentweinsdorf in the Reichsfreyen Ritterschetzt Canton Baunach Vorden.
The third, Johann Buchenröder, apothecary in Heldburg, married Anna Barbara, Herr Lazari Bauer, daughter of the council there, and produced a son who appears among the pastors at Lindenau.
The fourth Georg Caspar Buchenröder has become pastor in the Swabian region of Amlishagen.
The eldest daughter, J. Anna Elisabetha, married in 1660. The pastor of Memmelsdorff, Mr. Johann Hessen.
But the youngest, Johanna Cordula, 1665: Mr. Stephan Thomä, pastor and adjunct to Sonnefeld.
How he has now propagated the memory of his taking through his children: so he has made his Andescken immortal no less by his published writings, these are partly printed in front of their eyes, partly they are still in Manuscript hidden,
When the Turkish power turned against Christianity in 1663, he wrote a Tract de duabus as Gog and Magog (*) Next, another Tract de irruptione Gog and Magog inmones Israel borumq. finali excidio, printed in Jena.
(*) This treatise from Gog came out in 1663 at Leipzig in Quart under the name of the faithful Eckart, alias Aetophi Franconis, and the dedication to Duke Friedrich Wilhelm zu Altenburg geipso Natiuitatis Chr profesio 663. He probably did not rename his name deßwilen, further against the papacy quite a bit. Ä and has brought much hated testimonies of the truth from her own history. That he is the real Author, however, is proven by his words, which he has drawn with his own hand in the copy which he venerates the Adjuncto zu Lindenau M. Hattenbachen: Viro reuerendo plurimum & Clarissimo Domino Mag.Jonae Christiano Hattenbach, Adjuncto Inspeélionis Heldburgen- Ä Pastori in Lindenau dignissimo, Vigilantissinó, Domino Compatri, Confratri & Amico meo dilectissimo suauissimo hunc labellum dono mittit cum omnigena salutis apprecatione in Exodio anni 1653. Autºr Mich. Buchenröder. The title actually means, Ratio status Qrbis Turcici & Christianisiue Gog dux alac, I. populorum externorumin foedus & societatem assumtio. lI. Christianorutu interna dilcordia, maxime adhuc formidabiles & metuenda viuis coloribus expresse from Eckardo fideli alias Alethophilo Francone.
When the Jews wanted to make a lot of talk and seduction about a newly created Messiah, he wrote the urgent Messiah Jüden-Post against it, which was printed in Nuremberg in 1666.
In his old age, about 2 years before his end, he published 2nd tracts against the well-known Capucinist P. Marcumab Aviano, namely:
1. Correct answer to the question whether the Evangelical Lutheran Church or the New Roman Church has fallen away from the right, true, old, first, Apostolic Catholic Roman Churches? and which church to the old and first churches today Coburg 1681 by Johann Conrad, Mönch; the same sluice: Dabantur in H. (that is Heldburg) dedicates Mr. Johann Friedrich Händrich, Cammer-Rath and Ammann in Eißfeld.
2. Warning True Mouth from the awakened Odd and Wonder Men and their creatures. 12. 1681. Coburg, per eundem. Dedication Mr. Duke Ernst IV. Donor of the Hochf. Hildburghaus line.
I saw the Manuscripta preloparata at Westheim by the latter's most worthy nephew, Mr. Johann Christoph Buchenröder, their pastor. 1. Treasure over all treasures, or desired blessed heaven-faith of believing Christians in death. 2. The true gospel. Church heaven histories in four parts. 3. God’s omnipotence in times of war and peace.
From Chip Kalb.
As you know, the Protestant German states were not big fans of the Popes. So, when Pope Gregory XIII reformed our Christian Calendar in 1582, all the Catholic countries, including Bavaria and Würzburg, immediately adopted it but many of the Protestant countries kept using the Julian Calendar for many more years, even after it shortcomings became painfully obvious.
In 1610, the whole Hildburghausen area belonged to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. At that time, John Casimir was the Duke. He was such a hardcore Protestant that it’s unlikely that he would ever allow the Gregorian Calendar to be used anywhere in his Duchy, even as his Catholic neighbors were using it all around him. In fact, Saxony didn’t make the switch until 1699.
So we are going to assume that, when Michael Buchenroder was born in 1610, Saxe-Coburg was still using the Julian Calendar. According to this Calendar, Trinity Sunday was 3 June 1610 and the 19th Sunday after Trinity was 14 October 1610. That’s why Michael’s baptismal record is dated, “In the Year of Our Lord 1610, on 15 October, after the 19th Sunday [ past ] Trinity. [ Anno Christi den 15 October nach den 19 Sontag Trinitatis. ]”. In the Gregorian Calendar, 15 October 1610 is 25 October 1610 so Michael’s “birthday”, 18 October 1610, would be 28 October 1610 !
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