Rhau, Georg

Rhau, Georg

Male 1488 - 1548  (60 years)

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  • Name Rhau, Georg  [1, 2
    Birth 1488  Eisfeld, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Education Between 1513 and 1518  University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Education Between 1518 and 1520  Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Life Event Between 1518 and 1520  Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    ThomasKantor 
    Life Event Between 1520 and 1521  Eisleben, Bordekreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    School Teacher 
    Life Event Between 1521 and 1522  Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    School Teacher 
    Life Event Between 1523 and 1525  Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    School Master 
    Life Event Between 1525 and 1548  Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Printer and Musician 
    Death 6 Aug 1548  Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I12934  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Father Rhau-Grunenberg, Johannes,   b. UNKNOWN, Grünberg, Giessen, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1527, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F11474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Büsse, Anna,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1534, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage UNKNOWN  Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Rhau, Anna,   b. Between 1520 and 1524, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Mar 1584, Coburg, Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [natural]
     2. Rhau, Georg,   b. 1525, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 1547, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years)  [natural]
     3. Rhau, Catharina,   b. UNKNOWN, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     4. Rhau, Margaretlha,   b. UNKNOWN, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Family ID F2906  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Family 2 N.N., N.N.,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Sep 1571, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1538  Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Rhau, Johann,   b. 1538, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1547, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 9 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F11473  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1488 - Eisfeld, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Between 1513 and 1518 - University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Between 1518 and 1520 - Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - ThomasKantor - Between 1518 and 1520 - Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - School Teacher - Between 1520 and 1521 - Eisleben, Bordekreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - School Teacher - Between 1521 and 1522 - Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - School Master - Between 1523 and 1525 - Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - Printer and Musician - Between 1525 and 1548 - Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1538 - Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Aug 1548 - Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - UNKNOWN - Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Link to Google Earth
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  • 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).

      * 1488, ice field
      † 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

  • Sources 
    1. [S447] GERMANY: FAMILIES: Jodocus Morlin and seine Nachkommen, (Name: Name: Karina Kulbach-Fricke;).
      Karina Kulbach-Fricke
      https://www.thomafamily.org/tfam/Mainfile_Histories/Jodocus%20Morlin%20and%20seine%20Nachkommen.pdf
      Jodocus Morlin and seine Nachkommen
      Jodocus Morlin and seine Nachkommen


    2. [S788] WORLD: Wikipedia.
      https://www.wikipedia.org/

    3. [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:.
      Reuter, Rosl.