Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Printer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Between 1513 and 1518, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
• Education: Between 1518 and 1520, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
• Life Event: Between 1518 and 1520, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; ThomasKantor
• Life Event: Between 1520 and 1521, Eisleben, Bordekreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; School Teacher
• Life Event: Between 1521 and 1522, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; School Teacher
• Life Event: Between 1523 and 1525, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; School Master
• Life Event: Between 1525 and 1548, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Printer and Musician

Notes:

The following is from Rosl Reuter:

Anna was the daughter of the versatile Georg Rhau (Rhaw). This had first studied, then learned the book printer trade in Wittenberg. But he is also musically special he must have been gifted, he became the first known Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He had to resign from this office in 1520 because he was a follower of Luther. Now he became Schulmeister, but then returned again as a printer to Wittenberg. Here he belonged to the City Council.

His eldest daughter Anna first married the respected Rector M. Johannes Weißgerber in Coburg. He died in 1561, before he could take office as a pastor in Hildburghausen.

Financially, Anna obviously did not need to make a second marriage. That's how she is Widow able to buy the house at Kirchplatz 2 in 1572, which until her death remained in her own possession. (Where did I get this information from ??????????????????????? Somewhere from the files of the state library, I think. Max lived there later, Mörlin? See further up!) Only after 20 years widowed she married Maximilian Mörlin.

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Georg Rhaw
The spelling of the name can also be found as: Jorg, Joerg, Jeor, Georgius, Jeorgius Rhav, Ravv, Rawh, Rau, Rhau, Rhavus; latinized: Hirsutus (shaggy, rough).

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† 06.08.1548, Wittenberg

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Music theorist, composer, music printer, publisher, educator, Thomaskantor

From http://www.schildburghausen.de/personlichkeiten/rhaw-georg/

Rhaw is called "musicus et typographus" . He himself confirms his birthplace in the work entitled "Newe deudsche geistige Gesenge ... for the common schools", which was dedicated to the mayor and council of Esfelt in 1544 . In his "Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae" he calls himself "Georgius Rhav Esfeldensi" .

Rhaw must have spent a happy youth in Eisfeld, because he hangs with great love and gratitude to his native city. "In the same way as my dear fatherland, I am drunk and I have never forgotten to educate a Jew". Already from childhood on ( "a pueritia" - as he writes in the preface to "Postremum Vespert, Officii Opus 1544" ) he has dealt with music and at least enjoyed a good (school) musical education.

From 1508 he studied at the University of Erfurt and from 1512 he is a student (" Baccalaureandus in artibus" ) of the University of Wittenberg. The baccalaureate is the lowest level of academic education. In 1514, Rhaw earned the academic degree of "Baccalaureus in artibus". However, he does not take the master's examination - he would have had to study for another one and a half years - but learns in the next four years in the printing of his relatives Johann (it) Rhaw-Grunenberg in Wittenberg the printing trade. He also runs music theory studies.

In 1518, Georg Rhaw again became a student, this time in Leipzig, but soon qualified as an "assessor" and accepted into the faculty of the "Faculty of Arts" , where he taught the "Science of Music" . Even before his appointment as "Assessor" he is appointed to the Thomaskantor. Rhaw is the first known Thomaskantor. He must have already been a master of his field, if such an office has been assigned to him. As one of the first followers of Martin Luther, however, he must resign his offices in 1520 (since 1512 Rhaw has relations with Lutheran circles).

Rhaw leaves Leipzig and becomes first schoolmaster ( "ludimagister" ) in Eisleben and from 1520 to 1522 in Hildburghausen, where "he enjoyed the greatest goodwill of the other teachers as well as touching attachment of his pupils". In 1523 he moved back to Wittenberg, where he opened a printing shop in 1525. In his workshop he mainly prints and publishes works of early church music, sometimes with his own movements, hymnals, but also the writings of Luther, Melanchthon and Spalatin, as well as the Confessio Augustana as well as pamphlets and his own music theory works.

Rhaw is first married to Anna, b. Buses († 23.03.1534). From this marriage go five daughters and a son, Georg jun. († 06.07.1547), forth. The eldest daughter Anna married to the Coburg school principal Magister Johann Weißgerber, who was called to Hildburghausen in 1561 as a pastor, but his office can not take office because he has met death shortly before taking office. The second marriage of Georg Rhaw is closed in 1538. The name of the wife is unknown. She dies on 28.09.1571. The only child of this marriage, the son Johann, died at the age of 9 (27.08.1547).

In 1555, in Hildburghausen, a Martin Rhaw, presumably a relative of Georg Rhaw, was called as a pastor at the St. Lawrence Church. He suffers a stroke in 1559 and dies in 1561.

A severe internal illness lasting years, which had already made itself felt in 1537, is weakening Georg Rhaw noticeably. "Stone pains", combined with shortness of breath and severe cough, force him to seek permanent medical treatment. But the disease finally defeats his will to live. He was redeemed from his sufferings on August 6, 1548, and buried with great honors and bells.

Georg Rhaw has been a respected citizen in Wittenberg. In 1541, 1544 and 1547 he is councilor. As a composer, he has emerged above all through his work "Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae" (2 parts: "Musica plana" 1517 and "Musica mensuralis" 1520).

After: Ingward Ullrich: Hildburghausen musicians . Series: Writings on the History of the City of Hildburghausen, Volume 4 - Verlag Frankenschwelle KG, Hildburghausen 2003 - 3-86180-129-9

Georg married Büsse, Anna in UNKNOWN in Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Anna was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died on 23 Mar 1534 in Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: 1508, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Set Up Print Shop in Wittenberg

Notes:

The Luther printer Rhau-Grunenberg
Letterpress signet from Rhau-Grunenberg
Letterpress signet from Rhau-Grunenberg
Letterpress signs from Rhau-Grunenberg
The Luther printer Rhau-Grunenberg Wittenberg, the city of Luther, the starting point and the center of the reformed movement for decades, turned out to be one of the most important printing and publishing places in Germany. At the beginning of the university stories was the plan to complete the equipment of the university by calling a book printer. The first real printer was Nicolaus Marschalk, born in Erfurt in 1502. However, he left the Leureca already in 1505 to dedicate himself as a diplomat in Mecklenburg services to practical life. In the meantime, the professors of a commercial printer in Leipzig (Martin Landsberg) used to bring their writings to pressure. The permanent establishment of a commercial printer was initially prevented by the Pest Epidemic.

He came from Erfurt, where he worked in the printing house Wolf Stürmers. He called himself according to his hometown Grünberg and Gronenberg (K), Grunenberg (k), Gruenenberg, Viridimotanus. Initially, his printing activities are closely related to the university and academic teaching. He printed text editions for the lecture, using Marschalk's type material. In 1516 Rhau-Grunenberg printed the "Theologia" for Luther for the first time. In 1517, however, Luther opened the world-shattering, revolutionary struggle with the one-sheet printing of the 95 theses, placarded at the castle church in Wittenberg. Probably this poster print of the 95 theses had also emerged from the press of Rhau-Grunenberg. However, with the increasing demand, the technical equipment of his printer proved to be inadequate. The old letters from Marschalk gradually became useless, the typeface and sentence remained unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, Rhau-Grunenberg was the one who made the typographic advance for the breakthrough of the Reformation. In a letter to xxx Luther complained about the print quality of Rhau-Grunenberg. With Melchior Lotter and Hans Lufft other printers came to Wittenberg, who took over the work of Rhau-Grunenberg. In 1524 the number of his works decreases and in 1525 his last works are published. His house also appears in the Wittenberg tax lists. On August 19, 1527, Luther wrote a letter to Spalatin in which, among other things,

The Rhau family
Since there are no civil status records from the time before the Thirty Years' War in Grünberg, no direct relatives can be proven here. But is a family Rau detectable since 1378 in Grünberg. A document from the year 1479 calls a "Rupert Rau". At the end of the 16th century three families lived in Grünberg called "Rau", all belonging to the urban upper class.