Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Under Mayor for Hildburghausen

Notes:

Johann Hartmann was the under mayor for the town of Hildburghausen, Sachsen-Meningen, Thuringia, Germany.

From "Klipper Stipendium [Klipper Exhibition]", author unknown, Schriften des Vereins für Sachsen-Meiningische Geschichte u. Landeskunde [Writings of the Saxe-Meiningen Association of History and Geography], 54. Heft [Issue No. 54] (Hildburghausen, Saxe-Meiningen: F. W. Gadow & Sohn, 1906), pages 74, 80, 94.

Page 94:
Stephen Thomæ was apparently the only child of Katharina Hartmann (1607-1669) and her first husband, Christoph Thomæ. He married Cordula, the daughter of Superintendent Michael Buchenröder of Heldburg, and their children, as well as Christian's own children, are listed on this page. Stephen's parents were married on 4 November 1628 but Christoph died on 6 June 1634. Katharina then married Johann Möring on 30 January 1637. They had at least four children. Although he was a baker, Johann was the city Kirchner with the Church of St Lorenz in Hildburghausen. He died on 13 January 1676. His parents were not known. But Katharina's parents are known. She was the second daughter of Antastasia Scheder (died 2 January 1659) and her first husband, Johann Hartmann, the Senior Mayor of Hildburghausen (died 5 June 1615). The parents were married on 21 October 1606 but, after Johann died, his widow married, on 1 March 1647, the Tuchmacher [draper] Paul Thein, who died on 11 December 1678.

Johann married Scheber, Anastasia on 21 Oct 1606 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Anastasia (daughter of Scheber, Michael and Klipper, Margaretha) was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 2 Jan 1659 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 2 Jan 1659 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LK4K-DZJ

Ursula married Friedrich, Georg Veit in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Georg was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Klipper Stipendium [Klipper Exhibition]", author unknown, Schriften des Vereins für Sachsen-Meiningische Geschichte u. Landeskunde [Writings of the Saxe-Meiningen Association of History and Geography], 54. Heft [Issue No. 54] (Hildburghausen, Saxe-Meiningen: F. W. Gadow & Sohn, 1906), pages 74, 80, 94.

Page 94:
Stephen Thomæ was apparently the only child of Katharina Hartmann (1607-1669) and her first husband, Christoph Thomæ. He married Cordula, the daughter of Superintendent Michael Buchenröder of Heldburg, and their children, as well as Christian's own children, are listed on this page. Stephen's parents were married on 4 November 1628 but Christoph died on 6 June 1634. Katharina then married Johann Möring on 30 January 1637. They had at least four children. Although he was a baker, Johann was the city Kirchner with the Church of St Lorenz in Hildburghausen. He died on 13 January 1676. His parents were not known. But Katharina's parents are known. She was the second daughter of Antastasia Scheder (died 2 January 1659) and her first husband, Johann Hartmann, the Senior Mayor of Hildburghausen (died 5 June 1615). The parents were married on 21 October 1606 but, after Johann died, his widow married, on 1 March 1647, the Tuchmacher [draper] Paul Thein, who died on 11 December 1678.

Catharina married Thomæ, Christoph on 4 Nov 1628 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Christoph (son of Thomæ, HEINRICH) was born between 1590 and 1598 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 6 Jun 1634 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 8 Jun 1634 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catharina married Möring, Johann on 30 Jan 1637 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Johann (son of Möring, Michael) was born in 1596 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 13 Jan 1676 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 13 Jan 1676 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 25 Aug 1629, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany
• Education: Between 1646 and 1652, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Residence: 16 Apr 1652, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
• Life Event: Between 1663 and 1668, Wiesenfeld, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Weisenfeld
• Life Event: Between 15 Jul 1668 and 1678, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Neuhaus
• Life Event: Between 1678 and 1706, Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Adjunct Lutheran Pastor at Sonnefeld
• Residence: Between 1678 and 1706, Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; House 46

Notes:

From the “Von der Adjunctur Sonnenfeld” chapter in the “Light in the Evening” book, pages 718-719

Stephanus Thomæ, mein seeliger Vater, erblickte dieses Tages-Licht zu Hildburghausen auf Bartholomæi 1629. Die Eltern waren Herr Christoph Thomæ, anfangs Cantor, hernach Subdiaconus und endlich Archidiaconus daselbst, so 1634 im Herrn seelig entschlaffen, und Frau Catharina, eine gebohrne Hartmdnnin. Er frequentirte unter den damahligen Kriegs=Troublen anfangs die Schule daselbst, und gieng zugleich seinem Stieff=Vater Johann Möringen, sowohl in seinem Kirchner=Amt, als Becker Handwerck an die Hand, biß er sich 1646. auf das Hochfürstl. Gymnafium nach Coburg wenden, und daselbst mit dem Convictorio und famulatur kümmerlich hinbringen konnte. Endlich begab er sich nach Leipzig, difputirte 1652. unter Hn. M. Rothen de Sorite, und promovirte den 21. April 1655. in Baccalaureum. Als er nach seiner Anheimkunfft sich eine geraume Zeit in dem vornehmen Carpzovischen Hauß aufgehalten, und die altesten Söhne informiret hatte, bekam er 1663. eine Vocation zur Pfarr Wiesenfeld, 1668. zur Pfarr Neuhauß, und endlich 1678. Zur Adjunctur Sonnenfeld, allhier starb er den 22. Julii 1706 im 77. Jahr seines Alters, recht Lebensfatt, an einem Schlagfluß, und wurde in die Closter=Kirche versendet. Ein mehrers von demselben findet der geneigte Leser in dem von mir nach seinem Tod ihm verfertigten Ehren=Gedächtniß. Von ihm find zum Druck kommen:

The English translation:

Stephen Thomæ, my blessed father, [first] saw the daylight in Hildburghausen on St Bartholomew's Day [24 August] 1629. The parents were Mr. Christopher Thomæ, in the beginning Cantor of this place, and at the end Subdeacon and afterwards Archdeacon [also] of this place, who in 1634 fell into blessed sleep in the LORD, and wife Catharina, born Hartmannin. He frequented under the late military troubles the school of this place in the beginning, and went at the same time to his stepfather Johann Möringen in his office as a Kirchner [church's administrative assistant], as well as to the baker’s shop, working by the hand, until he in 1646 went to Coburg for the Great Princely Gymnasium, and passed the time at that place at the dorms [Convictorio] and in the classrooms [famulatur] in misery. Finally he went to Leipzig, apprenticed 1652 under Mr. M. Rothen de Sorite, and received his baccalaurate on 21 April 1655. As he informed the oldest sons, he was after his homecoming employed for a long time by the distinguished House of Carpzov and [then] received the call 1663 as the pastor of Wiesenfeld, (15 Jul) 1668 as the pastor of Neuhauß, and finally 1678 as the adjutant of Sonnefeld, where he died on 22 July 1706 in the 77th Year of his age, still full of life, of a palsy, and was buried at the Klosterkirche. Also at the same place, the gentle reader will find that, after his death, I made the memorial in his honor. Of him it is here in print: [Actually, Christian listed three people who were buried with his father.]

From:

Beyträge zur Erläterung der Hochfürstlichen Sachsen-Hildburghausen Kirchen=Schul=Landes=Historie, Vierter Theil, von der Stadt und Dioeces Königsberg, Sonnenfeld, Behringen und Schalckau, [Contributions to the Explanation of the Church, School and Country History of Great Princely Saxe-Hildburghausen, Part 4, of the Cities and Dioceses of Königsberg, Sonnefeld, Behringen and Schalckau], by Johann Werner Krauß (Hildburghausen, Saxe-Hildburghausen: Johann Gottfried Hanisch, 1754), pages 359-360, in the "Sonnenfeld" chapter:

Stephen Thomä, was the 14th Evangelical pastor of Sonnefeld, and he also succeeded the late Johann Lorenz Hoffman (who had died in 1677 at the ripe old age of 46) as the Adjunctus of the same town.

[page 359] 14. Stephan Thomæ, of Hildburghausen, born 1629, studied in Coburg and Leipzig, was pastor first of Weisenfeld 1663, then of [page 360] Neuhaus 1668, finally Adjunctus of this place [Sonnefeld] 1678, died blessed 1706, was buried on 22 July in the Klosterkirche. His memorial tablet had this inscription:

“Here rests, weakened by old age and exhausted by [so] much work, the bones of a faithful Servant of GOD, namely Mr Stephen Thomæ from Hildburghausen well-trained theologian and well-deserved Adjunctus of this place [Sonnefeld]. This man of GOD’s fruits, loyal officer, and pastor's pastor, GOD rewarded [his] virtues with three crowns, two he wore in this mortality, with the third he shines now in eternity, after he had lived [for] 77 [years], led in Weisenfeld 5 [years], Neuhaus 10 [years], Sonnefeld 28 [years], altogether 43 [years], and been in the marriage for 41 years. Died blessed 1707.”

Of his family and writings more information is given by his minister son, Rev. Thomæ and see Licht p. 719.

Individuals: Grover, Carolyn, Month and day of Birth.

The Thoma family lived from 1687 to 1765 in house number 47 in Hofstädten. It was in 1687 in the possession of Stephan Thomæ. In 1706 half of the house was owned by Johann Sebastian Thomæ and half by his daughter. In 1740 it was half owned by Johann Sebastian Thomæ and half by Christian Valentin Thomæ. In 1741 if was fully owned by Christian Valentine Thomæ. In 1765 it passed into the possession of Waldaster Deysing.

Died:
House 46

Stephan married Buchenröder, Johanna CORDULA on 12 Nov 1665 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Johanna (daughter of Buchenröder, MICHAEL Sr and Steiner, Elisabetha) was born on 11 Oct 1647 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 10 Mar 1712 in Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 10 Mar 1712 in Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Apr 1631, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany
• Education: 1654, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Graduated Summer Session
• Life Event: Between 1655 and 1658, Bahra, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Bahra
• Life Event: Between 21 Nov 1658 and 27 Jan 1690, Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor

Notes:

Johann Anton is indeed the son of Christoph Thomæ and Catharina Hartmann. But since he was six years old he was raised by his step father and eventually took the name of Möring.

Family/Spouse: Seifert, Barbara. Barbara (daughter of Seifert, Kilian and Rosenfeld, Anna Margaretha) was born in UNKNOWN in Bedheim, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died before 30 Nov 1703 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 30 Nov 1703 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Jan 1633, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Evangelical Church

Notes:

Evidently Margaretha stayed with her older brother after the death of her mother and father and moved with Stephan Thomæ when he became pastor of Neuhaus (now Neuhaus-Schierschnitz).

Margaretha married Röder, Johann on 6 Feb 1672 in Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany. Johann (son of Röder, Veit) was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED in Sülzfeld, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Jun 1634, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Evangelical Church

Notes:

On the baptism record the top half is the baptism of Paul Dannpach (Dannbach) little son, Wolfgang. The bottom half is the baptism of Christoph Thomæ little son, Michael. It was a double baptism

On the death record the inscription is w(ie). h(her). Christoph Thoma sel(ig). Sohnlein. At the same place Christoph Thomæ was deceased when his little son died. Or father died before son.

Name:
On the baptism record the top half is the baptism of Paul Dannpach (Dannbach) little son, Wolfgang. The bottom half is the baptism of Christoph Thomæ little son, Michael. It was a double baptism

Notes:

Childless

Family/Spouse: Weber, Balthasar. Balthasar was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED in Germany; was buried in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Baker and Churchman in Hildburghausen

Notes:

Books: Antiquitates et Memorabilia historiae Franconicae besonders Hildburghausen, Page 316.

Johann married Köfel, Catharina on 3 Nov 1696 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Catharina was born on 19 May 1674 in Thüringen, Germany; died in Jan 1718 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 26 May 1673, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
• Life Event: 10 Dec 1677, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Conrector
• Life Event: 7 Mar 1681, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Director of Choral Music
• Life Event: Between 1683 and 1687, Unfinden, Hassberge, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Unfinden
• Life Event: 1684, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Rector
• Life Event: 1688, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Brunn
• Life Event: 1690, Deutenheim, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Deutenheim
• Life Event: 1694, Obersteinbach, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Obersteinbach
• Life Event: 1705, Schornweisach, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Schornweisach
• Life Event: 1707, Neustadt an der Aisch, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Bayern, Germany; College Teacher

Notes:

Appointed Conrector on 10 Dec 1677, Director of Choral Music on 07 Mar 1681 and rector to Romhild in 1684. born 27 Sept 1651, Rector to Neustand on the Aisch, died 1729

Books: Antiquitates et Memorabilia historiae Franconicae besonders Hildburghausen, Page 309, 378.

Georg Möring Konrektor; Lebensdaten nicht ermittelt. Möring war seit 1677 Konrektor in Hildburghausen, leitete 1681–1684 den Chorus musici. QUELLE: Landesbibliothek Coburg, Manuskript PM I/65: Christian Mühlfeld: Musiker-Buch des Herzogtums Sachsen-Meiningen. Kurze Biographien von Musikern, Kantoren, Organisten, Dilettanten, die im Herzogtum geboren sind oder in demselben gewirkt haben. Meiningen 1908.

Georg Möring Conrector; Life data not determined. Möring had been a rector in Hildburghausen since 1677, and conducted the chorus musici in 1681-1684. SOURCE: Landesbibliothek Coburg, manuscript PM I / 65: Christian Mühlfeld: Musician book of the duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. Short biographies of musicians, cantors, organists, dilettantes, who were born or have been born in the duchy. Meiningen 1908.

“1660 Georg Ebenretter, + 1682, dessen Frau Rosine eine Tochter des Sup. Melchoir Weigler war, die 1686 Konsul Hans Heubner ehelichte, während seine Tochter Sabina an Georg Möring, 1680 Pfarrer in Unsind, Rektor in Neustadt a. d. Aisch, verheiratet war.”

And the English translation :

“1660 Georg Ebenretter [ the fifth Syndicus of Hildburghausen since 1585],died 1682, whose wife Rosine, a daughter of the Sup[erintendent]. Melchoir Weigler, married Consul Hans Heubner in 1686, while his daughter Sabina was married to Georg Möring, 1680 Pastor of Unsind, Rector of Neustadt a. d. Aisch.”

Georg married Ebenretter, Sabina in 1680 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Sabina (daughter of Ebenretter, Georg and Weigler, Rosine) was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LK4V-B5H
• Baptism: 30 Mar 1649, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany

Anna married Lützelberger, Johann on 19 May 1674 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Johann was born in 1653 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 2 Mar 1714 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 3 Feb 1714 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Feb 1643, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Evangelical Church

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Apr 1667, Wiesenfeld, Coburg, Bayern, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Apr 1668, Wiesenfeld, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Education: Between May 1679 and 1686, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Student
• Education: 14 May 1688, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
• Life Event: Between 25 Feb 1697 and 1723, Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Rector at Neustadt

Notes:

From "Licht am Abend"

Johann Christian Thomæ was born in the house of his grandfather in Heldburg on 5 April 1668. The father was Rev. Stephan Thomæ, formerly Pastor of Weisenfeld, later of Neuhaus, and finally Adjunctus of Sonnefeld. The mother Madame Cordula, daughter of Michael Buchenröder, Superintendent of Heldburg. After he was privately educated by Rev. Joh. Martin Seifert, now Pastor of Steinach, Rev. Georg Möring, now Third Class of [the Collegiate School of] Neustadt an der Aisch, Rev. Georgio Kochen, then Pastor of the Holy Cross in Coburg, now deceased, he came in late May 1679 to Coburg for the Primary Class [at the Collegiate School] and was promoted 1682 to the Great Princely Gymnasium. After he matriculated 1686 at the bottom of his class [de paupertate studio forum = Latin, “of the poverty of the study of the form”], he entered on 14 May 1688 the University of Jena. In the year 1697, on 25 February, he received a Vocation to the Rectory of this place [Neustadt an der Aisch], on 3 March, his pastor's uniform, and began the 5th of that month his work in the name of GOD. The Monday after Misericordia Sunday [15 or 22 April 1697], he was installed as the Cantor of the Spiritual Lower Court in the presence of the entire Collegiate Council, however has led his office for almost a fourth of a generation hopefully not without blessing, and it appears that he is consumed in this work as a light in the service of GOD, and yet taken without none of his predecessors dead in office, whom he would first make as a rule, “and the rectory makes a mortal immortal [Rectoratum hactenus immortalem mortalem].“ In print, he has (1) made in the honor of his blessed father Rev. Stephan Thomæ, and 1707 set the memorial, (2) published in 1720, Den in der Augen der Welt unglück seelige, in GOttes Augen höchst=seel. Zustand eines truen Schulmanns [The in the Eyes of the World tragically dead, in the Eyes of GOD most blessed State of a true Schoolmaster], a pamphlet for the funeral of the Kirchner, Rev. Eyring, and (3) this present work.

From Wikipedia:

Johann Christian Thomae (* 5. April 1668 in Heldburg, Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg; † 19. March 1724 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg) was a German historian and a rector of Neustadt bei Coburg.
Life
Thomae was born on 5 April 1668 in Heldburg at the house of his grandfather. His father was Stephan Thomae, the pastor of Wiesenfeld and later of Neuhaus and Sonnefeld. His mother was Cordula Buchenröder, the daughter of the Superintendent Michael Buchenröder. In 1682, Thomae was admitted into the Hochfürstliche Gymnasium in Coburg. From 1688 he studied at the University of Jena. After graduation, he worked as a teacher. In 1697, he was appointed as the Rector for the parish of Neustadt bei Coburg. In 1722 ( ins XXVI. Jahr Rectore der Schul daselbst [ “in his 26th year as the Rector of the School” ] he published in Coburg his history of the Reformation of the Duchy of Coburg. He died on 19 March 1724.
Works
• Kind-schuldiges Ehren-Gedächtnis, dem weiland Wohl Ehrwürdigen, Großachtbahrn, und in Gott andächtig Wohlgelehrten Herrn Stephano Thomae [ A Repentent Son’s Memoir Honoring the Late, Most Venerable and Most Noble Servant of God Scholar, Mr. Stephan Thomae ] ( Coburg : Mönch, 1707 )
• Das der gantzen Evangelischen Kirchen, insonderheit in dem gesammten Fürstenthum Coburg aufgegangene Licht am Abend / das ist, Historische Beschreibung des heilsamen Reformations-Wercks und Lebens Lutheri, wie auch aller evangelischen Prediger und Stadt-Schul-Collegen des Coburgischen Fürstenthums, vom Anfang der Reformation biß hieher. [ The Entire Evangelical Church, featuring the whole Principality of Coburg, [ the ] Rising Light in the Evening / That is, the Historical Description of the Deeds and Lives of the Reformation of Luther, as well as all Evangelical Preachers and Cities, Schools and Colleges of the Coburger Principality, from the Beginning to the Present ] ( Coburg : Paul Günther Pfotenhauer und Sohn, 1722 ), popularly known as “Licht am Abend”
•
External Links
• (de) Complete online edition of Licht am Abend in the Digital Collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [ Bavarian State Library ]

The English translation of Thilo Krieg’s biography of Johann Christian Thomæ:

47.  T h o m a e , Johann Christian, historian and biographer
( 1668 – 1724 ).
On 2 November 1717, an “Actus oratorius” [ oratorical ] took place in Neustadt to celebrate the “Jubilaeum Lutheranum Secundum” [ Luther Bicentennial ], designed by the rector of the town school Johann Christian Thomae.  Among other things, in the church, a number of boys were told about the life and deeds of Luther to his death and burial.  This process — as reported by Albrecht Meno Verpoorten, the then superintendent of Neustadt, in the preface to Thomae's Licht im Abend [ “Light in the Evening” ] — prompted good friends to propose that the speeches should be published with explanations.  In this way, as Verpoorten continues, especially since there were not any particular accounts about the Reformation in Coburg, in Thomae the idea of “collecting the information about churches and schools, which are available since the Reformation, as much as possible, and thus to preserve the same against destruction or oblivion, and to facilitate the same work for the descendants [ die noch bey Handen habende Nachrichten von Kirchen und Schulen, seit der Reformation, so viel thunlich, zu samlen, mithin dieselbe vor gäntzlicher Zernichtung oder Vergessenheit desto eher zu bewahren, und den Nachkommen dergleichen Arbeit zu erleichtern ].”  “It seems to me”, writes the Rector himself, “as an irresponsible impertinence against God, if we did not endeavor to preserve the blessings of our leaders, who have now been announcing the Word of God to us for two hundred years [ Mir kam es, als eine unverantwortliche Undanckbarheit gegen Gott vor, wenn wir nicht das Andencken unserer Lehrer, die uns nun zwenhundert Jahr das Wort Gottes verkündiget, im Segen zu erhalten uns bemühen wollten ].”  The will turned into action, and a work came to light, which was at the core of a description of the lives of the Evangelical preachers and city schools and colleges in the Principality of Coburg, as well as yielding a rich trove to the friends of history as well as explorers of biography, and whose value as a reference will not fade away.

The outer life of Johann Christian Thomaes lacks remarkable experiences.  In the house of his grandfather, the superintendent Buchenröder, he was born in Heldburg in 1668 ( 5 April ).  His father, Stephan Thomae, was a pastor in Wiesenfeld, on his maternal side he could trace the family tree back to the Coburger Superintendent Dr. Maximilian Mörlin.  A student at the Casimirianum in Coburg from 1682, he went to Jena in 1688 and followed his call as a rector to Neustadt in 1697.  As for his activities as a teacher, we learn from the description of one's life, written by General-Superintendent Erdmann Rudolph Fischer.  In 1701, Fischer went to the school in Neustadt.  “Everywhere I go,” he continues, “I have enjoyed the faithful teaching of the frail but skillful and untroubled Rector, Johann Christian Thomae, of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, to my great benefit [ Allwo ich, des treuen Unterrichts des, dem Leibe nach gebrechlichen, aber sehr geschickten und unverdrossenen Rectoris, Herrn Johann Christian Thomae im Lateinischen, Griechischen und Hebraeischen, zu meinem großen Nutzen genossen ].”  A lengthy stay of the Rector in the sickbed caused this schoolmaster to retire from Neustadt earlier than he wanted.  “For under Him,” he adds, “I could have done so much more [ Denn unter ihm, hätte ich noch vieles vor mich bringen können ].”  In the Rectory, Thomae died, almost fifty-six, in 1724 ( 19 March ).

Birth:
House of Michael Buchenröder

Johann married Eyring, Margaretha Dorothea on 9 Jun 1700 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Margaretha (daughter of Eyring, Johann Andreas and Brechtold, Anna Ursula) was born on 21 Aug 1675 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 10 Mar 1722 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 10 Mar 1722 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Nov 1669, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany
• Education: Between 1684 and Apr 1688, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Noted that he was stupid and tardy.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Feb 1671, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 Mar 1672, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 5 Dec 1673, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 16 Jan 1676, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany
• Residence: Between 1706 and 1740, Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; House 46b

Notes:

This is her baptism record from Neuhaus.  She appears to have been named after the daughter of Anna Christina and Magister Johann Adoini pastor to Züdsburg.

Died:
House 46b

Christina married in Single - Never Married. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Joiner / Carpenter
• Baptism: 10 Feb 1677, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany
• Residence: Between 1706 and 1741, Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; House 46a

Notes:

The Thoma family lived from 1687 to 1772 in house number 46 in Hofstädten. It was in 1687 in the possession of Stephan Thomæ. In 1706 half of the house was owned by Johann Sebastian Thomæ and half by his daughter. In 1740 it was half owned by Johann Sebastian Thomæ and half by Christian Valentin Thomæ. In 1741 if was fully owned by Christian Valentine Thomæ. In 1765 it passed to George Friedrich Thomæ And in 1772 it passed into the possession of Waldaster Deysing.

Died:
House 46a

Johann married Gutsel, Anna on 22 May 1703 in Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Anna (daughter of Gutsel, Johann and Eibau, Anna) was born on 10 Feb 1680 in Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 27 Apr 1741 in Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 27 Apr 1741 in Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran

Notes:

Birth:
House 46

Died:
House 46

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 1696, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Education: Between 1700 and 1702, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
• Residence: Between 1702 and 1703, Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany
• Residence: Between 1703 and 1704, Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Life Event: Between 1706 and 1712, Hartmannsdorf, Oder-Spree, Brandenburg, Germany; Military Chaplain
• Life Event: Between 1712 and 1722; Service of Major von Bölderndorff
• Life Event: Between 1722 and 1740, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Supervisor of the 7th Class of the Collegiate School of Coburg

Notes:

I'm glad to hear that, even though your eyes are getting bleary from slogging through "Licht am Abend", you're as happy as a bug in a rug. Well, you'll be happy to know that I have finished the English translation of the biography of Stephen Thomas Thomä. As a cradle Catholic, I'm not familiar with the Reformation terminology so it took me a while to figure out what the heck did Rev. Christian Thomä meant by this and that. So that's what he meant when he wrote that Father "informed the oldest sons"! He was actually home-schooling them, including Stephen Thomas. "Convictorio" was a term used to describe a pastor's assignment and service. Johann Christian Thomä's biography is two pages long so it'll take a while to translate it into English.

But, first, a couple of words - As you probably know from my English translation of the Hildburghausen timetable, the Church of St Lorenz was the main church of the town but it was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1779. "U.L. Frauen" is the holdover from the Catholic past of Hildburghausen. It's short for "Unsere Liebe Frauen", German for "Our Blessed Lady", who is of course the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. But this church doesn't exist anymore, too. They were both replaced by the present Evangelical Churches - the Christus and the Neustadter - and the Catholic Church of St Leopold.

And how the feature presentation . . .

The original German version:

Stephan Thomas Thomæ, ist ein Sohn Hn. Stephani Thomæ, Adjuncti in Sonnenfeld, und Fr. Cordulen, einer gebohrnen Buchenröderin, gebohren den 27. Maji 1679. Er genosse die Information in dem väterl. Hause, so lange biß er 1696. sich auf das Coburgische Gymnafium begeben kunnte, Allhier perorirte er, weil er im Convictorio die Carpzovische Frerstelle einige Jahre genossen, 1699. de laude Carpzoviana. Anno 1700. gieng er auf die Univerfität Jena, so dann 1702. auf Erffurth, und ferner 1704. auf Berlin, allwo er 2. Jahr informirte. 1706. bekam er Condition ber Hern Obrist=Wachtmeister von Glasungen, zu Hartmansdorff, ohnweit Franckfurth an der Oder. Allhier blieb er biß 1712. da er in patriam revertirte, und ber Herrn Obrist=Wachtmeister von Bölderndorff auf Zickelsdorff in Condition tratt, biß er den 19. Januar. 1722. von einem Hoch=Edlen Rath zum Præceptore der siebenden Claß in hiesiger Schule vociret wurde.

The English translation:

Stephan Thomas Thomæ, the son of Rev. Stephan Thomæ, Adjunctus of Sonnefeld, und Madame Cordula, born Buchenröder, was born on 27 May 1679. He benefited from the education at his father's house for a very long time until he could go 1696 to the Coburg Gymnasium. At this place, he matriculated, because he had gone off to the service [Convictorio, as the personal chaplain] of the Carpzov brothers [literally, "Brotherhood”] for a few years, 1699 de laude Carpzoviana [Latin, “In Praise of Everything Carpzov”]. In the year 1700 he went to the University of Jena, then 1702 to Erfurt, and further to Berlin, where he learned for 2 years altogether. In 1706, he went into the service [Convictorio, as military chaplain] of Obristwachtmeister [Major] von Glasungen in Hartmansdorf, not far from Frankfurt on the Oder. Here he would remain until 1712, when he returned to his native land and stayed in the service of Obristwachtmeister [Major] von Bölderndorff in Zickelsdorf, until he was called on 19 January 1722 by the Council of Great Nobles as the Præceptor [Supervisor] of the Seventh Class in this school [The Collegiate School of Coburg].

Birth:
House 46

Stephan married Hanau, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran

Notes:

Birth:
House 46

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran

Notes:

Birth:
House 46

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Hans
• Baptism: 16 Oct 1660, Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Nov 1662, Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany
• Education: 1672, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Student
• Education: Jun 1678, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Life Event: 1692, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Music Teacher
• Life Event: 1696, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Cantor and Tertius
• Life Event: 16 Jan 1708, Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany; Rector at Schalkau

Notes:

Johann Tobias Möring Kantor, Rector; Life data not determined. Möring was cantor in Hildburghausen in 1695, and rector in Schalkau in 1708. SOURCE: Landesbibliothek Coburg, manuscript PM I / 65: Christian Mühlfeld: Musician book of the duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. Short biographies of musicians, cantors, organists, dilettantes, who were born or have been born in the duchy. Meiningen 1908.

His mother was living with him after his father died in 1690 and until his mother’s death in 1703. She was buried in Hildburghausen.

The German transcription of Johann Tobias Mohring’s baptismal record is not finished but it’s already clear that he was baptized by his father, the Reverend Johann Anton Mohring, with three godfathers — the Reverend Tobias Durrfeld, the Pastor ( 1660 – 1668 ) of Nordheim im Grabfeld ( now Nordheim vor der Rhön, 11.6 miles northwest of Rappershausen and 24.2 miles west of Hildburghausen ), the Reverend Kilian Seifert, the Pastor of Bedheim ( for 38 years, 1638 – 1676, 4.2 miles southwest of Hildburghausen ), and the Reverend Johann Langenstätter, the Rector of the Evangelical School of Zerbst ( 121.5 miles northeast of Hildburghausen ).

I stayed up all night reading about these esteemed men.  The two Pastors both have biographies at Google Books.  Rev. Seifert is in the Krauss and Thomä books but he’s also in a book about German Evangelical hymnals because, for his last illness, he had songs sung to him from his church’s hymnals.  But you may be much more interested in Rev. Langenstätter.  It’s not because, in 1668, he published a memorial about his late Lord and Master, Johannes VI, the Sovereign Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst ( the great grandfather of Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia, and the great-great grandfather of King George III, who lost the American Colonies ).  It’s because he was one of your Klippers.  He was the son of Anna Nothnagel and her husband Pankratius Langenstätter, the grandson of Christoph Nothnagel and his wife Afra Klipper, and the great grandson of Conrad Klipper, the shoemaker of Hildburghausen.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name Sake: Anna Cordula Buchenroeder

Family/Spouse: Weigler, Johann Melchoir. Johann was born in 1636 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 25 May 1700 in Stressenhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 25 May 1700 in Stressenhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Freyburg, Johannes Tobias on 4 Mar 1707 in Oberwaldbehrungen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany. Johannes was born on 3 Oct 1672 in Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died before 18 Jun 1738 in Milz, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 18 Jun 1738 in Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jan 1669, Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Mar 1671, Rappershausen, Rhon-Grabfeld, Bayern, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name Sake: Johann Friedrich Henderickh
• Baptism: 14 Jun 1674, Neuhaus bei Schierschnitz, Föritz, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany

Notes:

I must’ve pulled too many muscles in my brain while I was trying to decipher the lines about Johann Friedrich Headerich.  When I finished the translation, I forgot that, in 1674, Stephan Thomae had already been the pastor of Neuhaus-Schierschnitz ( not Neuhaus am Rennweg! ) for six years, since 1668, and that he was not transferred to Sonnefeld until 1678 — four years later.  So he wasn’t new to Neuhaus-Schierschnitz.  The following translation should have read :

The English translation :

On the 14th of June [ 1674 ] Sunday, Fest Day of the Trinity 9. Mr Christian Röder, currently District Administrator of this place of Neuhaus [ -Schierschnitz ], a young son is baptized, baptismal witnesses and Godparents were :  the most worshipful and most worthy Mr Johann Friedrich Henderich, in the office of the Temporary Administrative District Officer of Sonnefeld, 2. Mr Johann-Georg Beyers, Town Council member and draper in Coburg, and 3. Frau Cordula Thomaßin, born Buchenröder, the wife of the present pastor of this place, Stephan Thomae.
The child will have the name of Johann Friedrich.

P.S.  In 1674 ( not 1574 ), Ernst I the Pious, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, was still the sovereign of Neuhaus-Schierschnitz ( in the District of Sonneberg ) but he died on 26 March 1675.  His oldest surviving son succeeded him as Friedrich I, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg.  The old Duchy of Saxe-Coburg belonged to him at that time but, in 1680, it was transferred to his oldest surviving brother, Albrecht.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Jun 1675, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany

Anna married Bartsch, Balthasar on 3 Nov 1696 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Balthasar was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Aft 11 Oct 1677, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Student
• Education: 13 Apr 1695, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Residence: 1704, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Sang Bass in the Court Chapel
• Life Event: 1710, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Pageninformator or Teacher of Noble Boys
• Life Event: 1712, Seidingstadt, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor at Seidingstadt
• Life Event: 1713, Seidingstadt, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Cantor at Seidingstadt
• Life Event: 1714, Seidingstadt, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Konrector at Seidingstadt
• Life Event: 1720, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Kantor and Tertius at Coburg

Notes:

Become pastor to Seidingstadt a municipality of Hildburghausen and Cantor in 1713 and Conrector in 1714. Became Cantor to Coburg in 1720. Attended the University of Jena.

Michael married Kirchner, N.N.Coburg, Bayern, Germany. N.N. was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Bähr, Berhard in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Berhard was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Baker

Notes:

They had one unbaptized child who was buried in Hildburghausen on 04 Aug 1714.

Catharina married Oppel, Georg Nicolaus on 5 Jul 1731 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Georg was born on 17 Oct 1700 in Poppenhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 17 Dec 1766 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 17 Dec 1766 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: City Church Worker (Stadtkirchner)

Friedrich married Gerbig, Dorothea on 22 Nov 1718 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Dorothea was born in UNKNOWN in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 22 Mar 1769 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 22 Mar 1769 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 30 Apr 1718, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Jan 1674

Anna married Stoll, Johann Peter on 28 Oct 1705 in Germany. Johann was born on 24 Jul 1681 in Suhl, Suhl, Thüringen, Germany; died in 1729 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Cloth Maker
• Life Event: Görlitz, Gorlitz, Sachsen, Germany; Cloth Maker
• FSID: LK4K-48B
• Occupation: Grenadier Lieutnant
• Residence: 1702, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany
• Residence: 1722, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Counsul

Family/Spouse: Vetter, Ursula. Ursula was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Naß, Barbara. Barbara was born in UNKNOWN in Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Schmidt, N.N.. N.N. was born in UNKNOWN in Gompertshausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9K61-LTH
• Occupation: Leibegardeauditeur, Amtsaktuar, Court Lawyer

Johann married Thamerus, Maria Adelheid on 25 Oct 1719 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Maria was born in 1695 in Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died on 29 Jun 1739 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]