Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Jul 1705, Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany

Justina married Liebermann, Martin on 23 Jan 1725 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Martin was born in UNKNOWN in Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany; died in DECEASED in Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Liebermann, Maria Elisabeth was born in UNKNOWN in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died in DECEASED in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
2. Liebermann, Gottlieb was born in UNKNOWN in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died in DECEASED in Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thüringen, 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”
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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:

• Alternate Birth: 4 Aug 1675, Unfinden, Hassberge, Bayern, Germany
• Alternate Death: 10 Mar 1722, Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany

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:

• Occupation: Housewife
• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 11 Oct 1647, Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany
• Residence: Between 1676 and 1712, Sonnefeld - Hofstädten, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; House 46

Notes:

Her birth date may be her christening date.

Died:
House 46

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Between 20 May 1654 and 1664, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Ratschule
• Education: Between 13 Apr 1660 and 1664, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Education: Aft 1664, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
• Life Event: Between 1671 and 1677, Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Substitute Lutheran Pastor
• Ordained: 1672, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Ordained on Passion Sunday
• Life Event: Between 1677 and 1722, Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor

Notes:

Attended boarding school at Ccoburg from 1654 to 1664 and the gymnasium at Coburg. He attended the University of Jena and was ordained on Passion Sunday 1672. He served at the Quasimodogeniti and substituted for his father at Fechheim from 1671 to 1677. From 1677 to 1722 he was pastor at Fechheim.

He was sick the last two years of his life.

Johann married Brechtold, Anna Ursula on 21 Jan 1673 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Anna (daughter of Brechtold, Johann Caspar and Drockenbrod, Dorothea) was born on 3 Sep 1648 in Einberg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 21 Nov 1710 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 21 Nov 1710 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lutheran Pastor, School Teacher, Headmaster in Hildburhausen
• Life Event: Between 1614 and 1625, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Cantor
• Ordained: 18 Dec 1625, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Ordination
• Life Event: Between 19 Dec 1625 and 1633, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Diaconal Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: Between 1633 and 1634, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Archdeacon

Notes:

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 baccalaureate 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, 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.]

Chronik der Stadt, der Diözese und des Herzogtums Hildburghausen [Chronicle of the City, the Diocese and the Duchy of Hildburghausen], by Rudolf Armin Human, Ph.D (a Thomä fan). (Hildburghausen, Saxe-Meninigen: Kesselringsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1886), pages 81, 82, 396, 397, 470

Antiquitates et Memorabilia Historiae Franconicae [in Latin: Antiquitaties and Memorabilia of the History of Franconia, but the book is in German] darumen insonderheit der Ursprung / Einrichtung und Merckwürdigkeiten der Fürstlichen Residenz-Stadt Hildburghausen von denen âltesten biß auf die jetzige Zeiten aus bewährten Uhrkunden abgehandelt werden [in German: Especially concerning the origin, foundation and curiosities of the Princely Residence-City of Hildburghausen from the authentic documents that were employed from the earliest to the current times], by Johann Werner Krauß [Hildburghausen, Saxe-Hildburghausen: Johann Gottfried Hanisch, "privileged court publisher", 1753], pages 309 and 311. The title is quite a mouthful. That's why this book is known as just, "Antiquitates et Memorabilia historiae Franconicae besonders Hildburghausen". Maybe the success of his first book went to Mr. Krauß’s head but he wrote excellent chapters about two major schools in Hildburghausen - the Hildburghausen School and the Princely Gymnasium.

Beyträge zur Erläuterung der Hochfürstl. Sachsen-Hildburghausen Kirchen- , Schul - and Landes-Historie: Zweiter Theil von der Stadt und Dioeces Hildburghausen [Contributions to the Explanation of the Church, School and Country History of the Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen: Second Part of the City and Diocese of Hildburghausen], by Johann Werner Krauß (Hildburghausen, Saxe-Hildburghausen: Johann Gottfried Hanisch, 1752), pages 274 and 383

Because Dr. Human used both books by Mr. Krauß as his sources about Christoph Thomä, I'll summarize my findings for you about Stephen's father. According to Mr. Krauß, Christoph lived his whole life in Hildburghausen but he was ordained in Coburg on 18 December 1625 as a deacon. In 1615, he became the 11th Cantor of the Hildburghausen School. The position of Cantor made Christoph the assistant to the Conrector, the second in command of the school. In 1622, he succeeded his boss as the 13th Conrector [Assistant Headmaster], "mit Berbehaltung des Cantorats [with the support of the Council of Cantors]” His promotion also made him the Vicar of the “U.L. Frauen.“ (Maybe that's why his son had to keep going to school in spite of the Thirty Years War.) In 1633, he was elevated to the rank of Archdeacon (Hofprediger = Court Preacher), the position he would hold to the end of his life. He died on 6 June 1634. His widow's second husband, Johann Möring (1596-1676), was, in 1642, the 10th Kirchner of the Hildburghausen School and he was succeeded in this office by his next four descendants. He was in various offices of the Church for 40 years.

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From National Library Coburg, Manuscript PM 1/65 : Christian Muhlfeld : Musician - book of the ducjy of Saxe - Meningen. Short biographies of musicians, cantors, organists, dilettantes who are born in the Duchy or have acted in the same Meningen 1908. Kantor, vice-pricipal; life datea is not identified. Thoma was 1614-1615 cantor in Hildburghausen, then vice principal.
That Christoph Thomä is in the Musiker-Lexikon des Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen ( 1680 – 1918 ) [ Dictionary of Musicians of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen ( 1680 – 1918 ) ] ???
Christoph Thoma (auch Thomä)
Kantor, Konrektor; Lebensdaten nicht ermittelt. Thoma war 1614–1615 Kantor in Hildburghausen, dann Konrektor.
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.

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For Hildburghausen and its neighboring towns, 1634 was the year of das große Sterben [ “The Great Death” ].  The German Wikipedia article about the Stadtfriedhof Hildburghausen [ City Cemetery of Hildburghausen ] states that so many people died at the time that it became necessary to open a separate cemetery for plague victims.  Today, no one knows its exact location — the people were that traumatized — but it is believed to be south of Hildburghausen, on the banks of the Werra River.

You might have already read all about it in the online timeline of Hildburghausen but it’s still worth a repeat, translated from the German :

16 October 1634
Feast Day of St Gallus.  The region is conquered by the Imperial General of Cavalry Johann Ludwig Hektor Graf von Isolani with his Croats.  The [ evil ] general is of Cypriot origin and leads a [ most ] cruel regiment in [ an orgy of ] pillage, robbery, torture and mass murder, after the Saxe-Weimar Cavalry has already withdrawn, on 9 October, in a hurry towards Suhl.  The incursion of Isolani, who came from [ Generalissimo ] Wallenstein, is to be regarded as a punitive act by the Emperor against the Thuringian princes, who were allied with Sweden.

One example is Themar, which suffers terribly.  The Imperial Soldiers raze 209 houses with 269 apartments, the rectory, the German and Latin schools, the Amtshaus [ district administrative building ], a town hall with a Ratskeller, two gatehouses and others.  The city church with its works of art was spared by a happy coincidence.  An Italian officer is said to have extinguished the fire torch in front of the Marian altar.

After the murderous arsonists have withdrawn, out of 300 people or heads of families, only 133 are counted, 40 of whom are healthy Bürger [ citizens ].  Next to the church there are “69 of the smallest houses” left.  In the memorial sermon given by Deacon Hölbe, 83 people, as well as the health of the 30 of them, are mentioned.  — Looting and pillage cause the damage of 149,282 guilders, 2 groschen and 8 ½ pfennigs.

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From the death record of Christoph from Chip Kalb:
I think Christoph Thomae died in his sleep but I can’t figure out the spelling of that word.  It looks like the writer was trying to show off by inventing a new word.  As you know, the Germans love to make combo words and this writer was apparently one of them.  He used “dormire”, the Latin verb for “to sleep”, “todt”, the German noun for “death”, and the Latin verb ending, “– irt” to create “doremtodtirt” [ died in the sleep ] but it didn’t come out right, not in that handwriting.  That writer should have laid off Latin and German shorthand and make the job easier for us translators.

Buried:
Buried in Plague cemetery.

Died:
Died in sleep, from plague.

Christoph married Hartmann, Catharina on 4 Nov 1628 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Catharina (daughter of Hartmann, Johann and Scheber, Anastasia) was born on 25 Oct 1607 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; died before 2 Feb 1669 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 2 Feb 1669 in Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: MS39-H94
• Education: 1 Oct 1623, Rodach, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Student
• Education: Between 27 Mar 1627 and 1632, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Student
• Education: Between 1632 and 1635, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Student
• Life Event: Between 26 May 1638 and 1647, Friesau, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Thüringen, Germany; St Leonhard Church, Third Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: Between 1647 and 1682, Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Senior Lutheran Pastor
• Alternate Death: 13 Jul 1682, Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany

Notes:

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 !

MICHAEL married Steiner, Elisabetha on 30 Oct 1638 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. Elisabetha (daughter of Steiner, Andreas and Küffer, Elisabetha) was born in 1620 in Klosterlausnitz, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thüringen, Germany; died on 1 Mar 1695 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried on 5 Mar 1695 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: KHWP-3PD

Notes:

The Books: Großen Historisches Lexicon Evangelischer Jubel-Priester provides the name of Elisabetha's husband

She had 15 children, 11 sons and 4 daughters. Two of the daughters died as children.

The Coburg Pfarrerbuch notes that she is the great great granddaughter of Maximilian Mörlin.

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L4LW-482
• Education: 19 Mar 1624, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany
• Education: Between 12 Aug 1629 and 1633, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
• Ordained: 16 Sep 1633, Weimar, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany
• Life Event: Between 1634 and 1649, Unfinden, Hassberge, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: Between 1649 and 1677, Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor

Notes:

Ratschule in Coburg, attended Leipzig University before going to the University of Jena.

Simon married Gölling, Anna Marie on 16 Oct 1634 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Anna was born on 19 Dec 1612 in Neuburg an der Donau, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Bayern, Germany; died on 10 Dec 1664 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 10 Dec 1664 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LHFB-NMP

Notes:

Married:
St Moritz

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 29 May 1640, Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Student
• Education: 1643, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Student
• Life Event: Between 12 May 1647 and 1666, Einberg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Ordained: 12 May 1647, Germany
• Life Event: Between 1666 and 1682, Weißenbrunn vorm Wald, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: Between 1682 and 1686, Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor and Adjunct

Notes:

Pastor to Einberg from 1647 to 1666
Pastor to Wissenbrunn von Wald from 1667 to 1682
Pastor and Adjuinct to Sonneberg from 1682 to 1686

Johann married Drockenbrod, Dorothea in 1647 in Einberg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Dorothea (daughter of Drockenbrod, Johann and Drockenbrod, N.N.) was born in 1632 in Weißenbrunn vorm Wald, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 11 Dec 1692 in Fechheim, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LVNR-Q27

Notes:

She is also listed as Dorothea Glaser, daughter of Unknown Glaser from Mupperg.