Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Businessman in Sonneberg

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant / businessman / small storekeeper

Martin married Thomæ, Justina Dorothea on 23 Jan 1725 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Justina (daughter of Thomæ, Johann Christian and Eyring, Margaretha Dorothea) was born on 27 Jul 1705 in Neustadt bei Coburg, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died in DECEASED in Sonneberg, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Jul 1705, Neustadt bei Coburg, 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”
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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]