The Happe family appears on the Struve and Other Families website as a result of the following series of marriages: Volkmar II Happe == Martha Tentzel >> Gustav Christian von Happe == Anna Dorothea von Avemann (1644 – 1705) >> Anna Dorothea Happe == Wilhelm Friedrich Werner (1648 – 1723) >> Johanna Dorothea Werner == Friedrich Gottlieb Struve (the son of Georg Adam Struve and Susannah Berlich) >>>>>> The Three Loeck Sisters.
GENEALOGY
It is surprising and fortunate that the Happe family’s genealogy was written down by Volckmar / Volkmar II Happe (1587 – 1645) during the 17th century under the title: Genealogia Happiana which acted as an appendix to his Chronicon Thuringiae which was a diary he kept during the 30 years war (1618 – 1648). A seperate page on this website containing this dairy can be found here.
Happe’s geneaology begins with Nicolaus Happe whose birth date is not known and who died on 7th February 1591 at Rohnstedt. He was married to Euphemia (1521 – 1611) whose family name is not known. They had two children:
1. Apolonia Happe who married Jacob Tentzel (1566 – 1625). There were no children recorded from this marriage and after her death Jacob married Martha Gordion and had two children: Martha and Ernst.
2. Volckmar I Happe was born circa 1548, in Rohnstedt, Thüringen, and was baptized in Greussen. We refer to him as Volckmar / Volkmar I. His wife, Martha Bernhardt, the daughter of Johann Bernhardt, was born circa 1567, in Greussen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Thüringen. Volckmar I and Martha are the direct ancestors of the Three Loeck Sisters.
They had the following 8 children:
1. Volckmar II Happe was born on 15th November 1587, in Greussen, Thueringen. We refer to him as Volckmar / Volkmar II. He was the author of Genealogia Happiana.
His siblings were:
2. Valentine Happe, 3. Andreas Happe, 4. Susanna Happe (married Schultheis / Schultze / Schulthes), 5. Euphemia I Happe, 6. Barbara Happe (married Ernst Tentzel (1595 – 1669)), 7. Matthaeus Happe and 8. Jacob / Jakob Happe.
Volckmar II married Martha Tentzel on 22nd September, 1617, at age 29 in Greussen, Thüringen. Martha was born on 25th October 1598, in Greussen, the daughter of Jacob Tentzel and Martha Gordion. Volkmar II died in 1645, at age 57 at Sondershausen, Thüringen. Volckmar II and Martha are the direct ancestors of the Three Loeck Sisters.
Volckmar II and Martha (Tentzel) Happe had 5 children:
1. Johann Andreas Happe (12.7.1618 – 22.11.1637);
2. Volckmar III Happe (1628 – 1694). His wife is not known. He had three children: two daughters (Erdmuth Juliana and Friedelena Magdalena) and one son (Johann Ernst);
3. Gustav Christian Happe was born on 19th January 1634 at Ebeleben and deceased 3rd December 1708 at Sondershausen, at the age of 74; and was buried on 5th December 1708 at Sondershausen. He married Anna Dorothea Avemann on 7th October 1662, at Greußen. They were the direct ancestors of the Three Loeck Sisters. They had four daughters and one son detailed below.
4. Martha Elisabeth married Carl Gunther Förster. They had one son: Volkmar Gunther.
5. Christoph Friedrich Happe. He was born on 17th July 1624 at Greussen in Thuringia. He was baptized on 20th July 1624 at Greussen. Christoph married Martha Catherina Herr, the widow of Tobias Herr in 1651 at Greussen. They had one child: Carl Friedrich Happe (1651 – 1692). Christoph Friedrich died in 1651 at Greussen. After his death, Martha married Christian Schmidt.
6. Euphemia II
Below, the two volumes of Chronicon Thuringiae and the first page of “Genealogia Happiana”.
What follows are the main entries from Volkmar II’s Genealogia Happiana. Whereas above we begin with Nicolaus, below Volkmar II begins with Andreas Happe the father of Nicolaus.
Andreas Happe was a well-mannered man and a wine merchant who lived as Rohnstedt. He became completely blind. He lies buried at Rohnstedt. His son was Nicolaus Happe, who also lived at Rohnstedt to his old age. He had a succesful wine trade and a bountiful farm, has sons and daughters, of which 2 sons and 2 daughters went to live in Meissen. Nicolaus died at a peaceful old age at Rohnstedt and was buried in the churchyard on February 7, 1591, at 11 o’clock in the night.
Nicolaus Happe was a citizen and councilor of Greußen, and was a woed farmer [agriculture, by cloth]. He was an upright citizen and he was by God abundantly blessed with temporal bounty. He married twice. The first was Catharina, the daughter of Eckhart Hülbener mayor of Greußen whom he married at Rohnstedt in 1568 on Trinity Sunday. They had three children who all died young.
The fourth, Valentine Happe, was born in the year 1575 at Greußen on the 13th of April. In 1595 he married Utilia Sellenners of Tennstedt, and with her in stalwart marriage, sired 6 children all of whom grew up. Valentine Happe, in the year 1622 in the evening in his own home, was miserably stabbed, while there were lawful soldiers, which Hertzog Fritzen of Saxe-Altenburg had quartered in Greußen.
After Volckmar Happe senior’s first wife, Mrs. Catharina Hölbenern, died according to God’s will, the said Volckmar Happe married in 1577 Mr. Johann Bernhardt, mayor of Greußen’s subdued daughter the Virgin Martha, with whom he lived in marriage in a Christian and peaceful way for 36 years and with her in restrained marriage produced thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters, with the names: Albertus, Nicolaus, Jacobus, Volckmarus, Mathaus, Andrew, Catharina prima [a], Martha, Anna, Catharina secunda [b], Barbara, Susanna, & Euphemia.
The first 2 sons Albertus and Nicolaus died young. The third son Jacobus married Mr. Martin Hauschelt’s daughter, with whom he has had several children. They lived in Meissen and cultivated a farm. After the death of his first wife, he married Mr. Jeremiae Bodin’s daughter of Greußen, with whom he also produced 2 children. She died in the name of God’s will. After the death of Mr. Bodin’s daughter, Jacob Happe married meals Andres Röslers widow geb. Wangemann.
The fourth son is me, Volckmar Happe junior. I will describe my cursum vitae below. The fifth son, Mattheus, was married at Greußen to Herr Hansen Hellener’s daughter Marien and they live in Greußen.
The sixth son, Andreas, learned the art of apothecary at Naumburg and, when he came to his adult years, was married to virgin Sybillen Döhlerin, the daughter of the reverend and well-to-do of Magistri Christian Döhler, pastor of Holleben in Meissen, a mile from Halle.
In 1625 August 12th, my dear brother Andersen’s faithful, godly, chaste, well-advised bride Ms. Sybilla Döhler after having lived in marriage with my dear brother for a year less than 9 weeks, was separated from this world by the hideous plague in the morning at 6 o’clock. She was not yet 16 years old, and walked with a very pregnant womb, but, thank God, mother and child were killed at one time and the birth in her womb remained dead.
After this deadly farewell to his wife, Andreas Happe married Annen Marien, the daughter of Herr Johann Wundern, a noble citizen of Frankenhausen. For this reason, he sold his house and field goods to me, Volckmar Happe, per 2600 fl. And moved to Frankenhausen, where he still lives.
[b] The first daughter Catharina prima died young.
Anno 1597 on the 22nd June my dear sister Martha was married to Tobias Leubnern of Greußen Sister X was Peacefully married at Ehestandt and had sons and daughters. She died a solitary soul at Greußen on October 25, anno 1617. The third daughter Anna died young. The fourth daughter Catharina married the mayor of Tennstedt’s son Bernhardt Wieglebs, but he treated her very badly, enslaved her, but she finally died at Tennstedt of the plague on November 7, anno 1611. Her irresponsible husband, after her death, became a soldier and died in Moravia. The fifth daughter, Barbara, has married to Mr. Jacob Tentzells, mayor of Greußen’s son Ernesto, with whom she has a blissful marriage and produces children, and lives in Greußen.
I was born Anno 1587 the 15th of November, I am, Volckmar Happe junior, born at Greußen between 2 and 3 o’clock after midday by God’s grace to the world healthy and freshly born and afterwards on the 16th of November by Mr. Johann Tentzeln, mayor of Greußen, was to holy baptism carried and named after my dear father Volckmar. Praise to God, honor and dignity, before all this mercy and blessing shown to me by Jesus Christ, Amen, Amen, Amen.
In my youth, as my dear parents report [Volkmar and Martha (Bernhardt) Happe], I was quite burdened with many illnesses. But God be thanked, I was kept alive and in good health. In the year of 1597, I labored the whole summer with a heated fever.
My dear wife Martha Tentzel was born in Greußen on the 25th of October anno 1598 around 11 o’clock before the noon. Her father is Mayor Jacob Tentzel, and her mother Martha, Johann Gordians daughter. God save us and keep us all in the right faith, love, peace and unity to our end, Jesus Christ’s sake, Amen.
Anno 1599 the 18th of January at noon between 11 and 12 clocks my dear youngest sister Euphemia was born. God be thanked. Anno 1599, an honest, local wine was harvested in Greußen, the like of which did not happen in many years.
My dear youngest brother Andreas was at midday between 10 and 11 o’clock, taken to be with God for all eternity. Anno 1617:
The sixth daughter Susanna married in 1617 with Mr. Casparo Schultheissen, junior.
The seventh and youngest daughter Euphemia in 1620 married Peter Erasmo [Erasmus], a student of medicine of Husen from Hollstein. They moved to Magdeburg. Finally, my dear sister Euphemia died at Magdeburg in 1625 on the 10th of July. [Peter’s dates are: 20.12.1593 -12.06.1633 in Katalog der … Stolberg’schen Leichenpredigten-Sammlung. Bd. 1.]
Volckmar Happe senior died 1613, February 26, at the 66th year of his age, in true faith in Jesus Christ, and was buried in the graveyard.
In his life he had been very troubled with the podagral [gout of the foot, especially the big toe], so that he had been paralyzed to the last at the ends of his feet. After the death of my dear and happy father Volckmar Happe senior, my dear mother Martha Happe nee Bernhartin remained in widowhood until the year 1625, when she died on the 8th of January at Greußen and was buried in the churchyard there. God grant her a joyous resurrection to eternal life. Amen, Amen, Amen. In her widowhood she still had to endure the evil and wretched warlike nature, and had to endure many encroachments and misfortune in her old age. She has seen that all her children have been married.
I was baptised by Mayor Johann Tentzell senior. In my childhood I was drawn by my dear parents [Martha Bernhardt, Volkmar I Happe senior] with diligence to the fear of God, churches and schools. I went to school in Greußen until the year 1601, when I was sent by my dear parents to school in Gotha. When I moved to Gotha in 1601 in September, I went to Aldar’s school with Herr Thoma Barhoffen, who did everything dear and good to me and drew me to all that was good, thank God. I was given a yearly allowance of 32 fl. I stayed at Gotha until ad anno 1605. Then I am to the then Conrectori master Magister Johann Weitzen, who lived in the convent, at which I stayed almost 2 years to anno 1607 year. My dear praeceptores have been the Rector Magister Andreas Wilkius, Conrector Magister Johann pluseus | Glaserus |. After his soulful death, the Conrector became master magister Johann Weitzens. Tertius was then Herr Abraham Berniger, under whose discipline I first come to classem tertiam.
The Cantor was Mr. Johann Lindemann. How diligently these my dearly beloved praeceptores fostered me in real life, then in Artibus ingenuis et linguis, Hebraeica, Graeca et Latina [a], as well as in bonis moribus [b] instituiret, I can not sufficiently engage in this. Especially Magister Johann Weitz has shown me great promotion with the institutione private [c]. God, the Almighty God, who is a good reward for all good, wants to reward them with temporal and eternal welfare, and also gives me the chance to once and for all show good to these persons and to all my benefactors. Anno 1607 in the ascensionis Christi [d] after a lunchtime sermon I am in the name of the Holy Trinity with Martin, Erich and Willhelm Otten passed on to the University [1] Tübingen, in Württemberger Land, by my dear parents. Anno 1608 am.
[a] in the noble arts and languages, the Hebrew, Greek and Latin
[b] in the Christian virtues
[c] private lessons
[d] on the day of the resurrection of Christ
[1] Happe enrolled at the University of Tübingen on 8.6.1607 under the matriculation number 17918.
Volkmar Happe Teil I, f. 9r [1608.00;1609.00;1611.09-1611.11;1613.09-1613.11]
I moved from Tübingen to Strasbourg. In 1609 I moved from Strasbourg to the University of Altdorf, three miles from Nuremberg, for the greater part of legal theory. In the fall of 1611, I moved from Altdorf to Jena, and cast my lot with the university. God, the faithful God, be Thanked for all eternity, who has bestowed all this. But after my dear father Volckmar Happe senior sive primus died in the year 1613 and unable to help my dear mother to leave the arduous housekeeping alone, I went home in the fall of 1613, to help my dear mother with clothmaking, and helping to tend the farmyard, and to look after three of my sister and brothers who were younger than me – Mathäus, Barbara and Susanna.
[1] Happe enrolled at the University of Jena for the winter semester (in August) 1610 under the matriculation number 109. His dissertation was titled: Controversarum iuris quaestionum quadragena secundum seriem institutionum iuris … ad exercitium publicae disputationis proposita … sub praesidio Cunradi Rittershusii … authore Volckmaro Happio.
Volkmar Happe Teil I, f. 9v [1617.00;1617.10;1638.00]
In 1617, in the name of God, I also made a solemn engagement with my dear mother and brothers, with the maiden Marthen, Mayor Jacob Tentzel’s Divine daughter, with whom I also married Greußen 1617 year on the 22nd of September in the name of the Most Holy Matrimony and our dear mother has kept us a year at the table. After that I began to advocate [practice the law], even after my few fortunes, the far-trade, whereupon my dear God blessed me so abundantly, that I owed it for eternity to thank.
In the year 1638 my mother and I moved to Catharine Helner’s house in the bakery behind the churchyard …
1625. On September 23, my dear father-in-law, Jacob Tentzell of Greuss, was laid down, even for the evening. September 24th was the 15th Sunday after Trinitatis and the next Sunday before Michaelis, after noon a quarter of an hour after 12 o’clock my father-in-law, suffered no more. He had done a lot of good to me and my loved ones. Mayor Jacob Tentzelln died of the suffering plague. On September 26th my dear, loving father-in-law was buried in Greussen.
Volkmar Happe Teil I, f. 10v [1623.10]
In my Christian marriage, my dear and faithful God with my dear housewife, born Tentzeln, gave me children, as five sons and four daughters, with names Johann Andreas, Martha Elizabetha, Christophorus Fridericusprimus, Christophorus Fridericus secundus, Anna Sabina, Volcmarus, Euphemia prima, Gustavus Christianus, & Euphemia secunda. Of these, according to God’s will, recently died Christoph Fridericus primus and Euphemia prima, who are buried in God’s field at Greussen.
Johann Andreas, my first son, died blissfully in God of consumption, between 11am and 12pm on November 22nd, 1637. This, my dearest eldest son, is buried in the cemetery in Ebeleben. God bless them all.
CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH HAPPE (1624 – 1651)
The brother of Volkmar II was Christoph Friedrich Happe. He was born on 17th July 1624 at Greussen in Thuringia. He was baptized on 20th July 1624 in Greussen. Christoph married Martha Catharina Herr the widow of Tobias Herr in 1651 in Greussen. They had one child: Carl Friedrich Happe (1651 – 1692).
In 1640, a certain Barbara Lappin passed away and Christoph Friedrich Happe and his father Volkmar II contributed to the book: Tröstlicher Apostolischer Abschied Das ist: Christlicher Leich Sermon: Gehalten auß dem 8. Cap. der Epistel an die Römer Bey tödtlichem Abschied auß dieser Wel :… This seems to be the only bibliographic record found that refers to Christoph Friedrich.
Christoph Friedrich Happe, died in 1651 and three years later his widow, Martha Catharina, married Christian Schmidt on 11th April 1654. To mark the occaision, several wedding books were published such as: Sagittae Amoris In Fabica Veneris: Incudi Amorum denuo recudendae traditae in which there were contributions by Volkmar II Happe, Ernest Tentzel, Volkmar III Happe, and Gustav Christian Happe.
Another wedding book to celebrate the marriage between Martha Catharina and Christian Schmidt was: Hymen: Viro Amplissimo, Consultissimo Excellentissimoq[ue] Dn. …
The child of Christoph Friedrich and Catharina Martha was Carl Friedrich Happe who was born on 19th September 1651 in Greussen. He was baptized on 20th September 1651 in Greussen. He died on 6th March 1692 in Walkenried and was buried on 13th March also in Walkenried. Note that Carl’s father died the year he was born. Carl Friedrich Happe is described as: ‘Der sächsische Verwalter’ (A Saxon government official).
Already in 1682/83, the then inspector of the Walkenrieth monastery, Karl Friedrich Happe, had sent reports of vermilion to Gotha; vermilion was considered the basis of the gold-producing Mercurius …
In 1671 Carl Freidrich contributed to: Disputatio Politica De Legibus: Quatenus Circa Eas Versatur Prudentia Legislatoria Quam In Illustri ad Salam Augusteo Solenniter P. P. Praeses M. Christianus Weise Polit. Prof. Publ. & Respondens Carolus Fridericus Happe Greussena-Thuringus. ipsis Calend. Septembr. M DC LXXI.b Right: Carl Fredrich Happe’s contribution to: Dreyfacher Trost-Grund Womit sich schwangere und gebährende Weibes-Personen in Ihrem weiblichen Creutz … [1671].
The funeral book for Tobias Herr (died 5th November 1666) [Dreyfache seelige Gemeinschafft der Gläubigen mit Christo] was compiled Jacob Tentsel / Tentzel and the last contribution to it was made by Carl Friedrich Happe. We assume that this Tobias Herr was the son of Tobias and Martha Catherina Herr. Tobias is described as a learned apothecary; as well as the mayor of Greussen. We also assume that this Tobias had a son: Volckmar Tobias Herr.
Carl Friedrich Happe married twice: 1) Anna Eva Widdeken on 13 September 1691 in Walkenried and 2) Margareta Elisabeth Kiesewetter.
Carl and Anna had one child: Catharina Dorothea Elisabeth Happe who was born on 30th October, 1692 in Walkenried and was baptized on 31st October. She married in 1714 at Neustadt, Harz, Johann Michael Günther. (See Gunther family below).
On 6th March 1669, Carl Friedrich Happe, Bailiff of Walckenriedt, died and a funeral sermon was published titled: Das wahre theure und werthe Wort Pauli Aus denen Worten I. Tim. I, 15. Das ist je gewißlich wahr … : Bey Christlicher Leich-Begängniß Des … Herrn Carol Friedrich Happen Hochfürstl. Sächsis. He was buried on 13th March. The book included a poem by Carl Friedrich’s uncle, Gustav Christian Happe.
ANDREAS HAPPE (1597 – 1649)
According to his brother Volkmar II, Andreas learned the art of apothecary at Naumburg and later became Mayor of Greussen. When he came to his adult years, he was married to Sybilla Döhler, the daughter of the reverend and well-to-do of Magistri Christian Döhler, pastor of Holleben in Meissen, a mile from Halle.
In 1625 August 12th, my dear brother Andersen’s faithful, godly, chaste, well-advised bride Ms. Sybilla Döhler after having lived in marriage with my dear brother for a year less than 9 weeks, was separated from this world by the hideous plague in the morning at 6 o’clock. She was not yet 16 years old, and walked with a very pregnant womb, but, thank God, mother and child were killed at one time and the birth in her womb remained dead.
After this deadly farewell to his wife, Andreas Happe married Annen Marien, the daughter of Herr Johann Wundern, a noble citizen of Frankenhausen. For this reason, he sold his house and field goods to me, Volckmar Happe, per 2600 fl. And moved to Frankenhausen, where he still lives.
Andreas and Ann Marie had the following children:
1. Volkmar Andreas (16. 11. 1626 – 26. 11. 1641)
2. August (28. 12. 1630 – 7. 1. 1631)
3. Martha Magdalena ( – 12. 12. 1632)
4. “A young son was born to my dear brother Andresen [Andreas] in Frankenhausen on December 31st Anno 1636.”
4. Elisabeth Anna (? – 1666) She married: 1. Wolfgang Antonius and 2. Johann Christoph Magen (See Magen Family below)
The only known surviving male child was the first Volkmar Andreas for whom we have found only one reference to him is as follows:
Count Volkmar Andreas Happe, owner of the Ehringsdorf manor near Weimar, who in 1688 appointed the poet Georg Neumark Vice Palatinate Count (cf. Hauptmann, Wappenrecht p. 538 f.) and his family (ancestors) and coat of arms. A Friedrich Hoppe [Happe?], landscape cashier in Weimar t. 1708. These are the descendants of Andreas Happe, from Greussen, pharmacist, panlord and mayor of Frankenhausen, insofar as they are recorded in the church books of Frankenhausen and Millheim a. Rh. Volkmar Andreas Happe, captain and Danish head equerry. From: Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde 1912.
There appear to have been two Johann Andreas Happes. One was the son of Volkmar II Happe (shown on the chart) and who died of consumption in 1637, as noted by his father. The other Johann Andreas Happe may have been the son of Volkmar’s brother Andreas, although he does not appear on any of the family trees / databases.
In 1649, Andreas Happe died and a funeral book was published entitled: Deß Menschlichen Lebens Contrafect: Auß dem Büchlein Syrach . …. which included a contribution by Johann Andreas Happe. The title tells us that Andreas Happe had been the mayor of Frankenhausen and that he had died on 13th of July and was buried on the 15th… , etc. Another contributor was Johann Schultes.
In 1657, Johann Andreas Happe, Jacob Tentzel and Volkmar Happe all had a hand in the book: Anima – Happius, Johannes Andreas: Disp. phys. decima septima de anima hominis … [Berlin].
Depsite the bibliographic existence of Johann Andreas, he remains obscure when it comes to geneaological databases.
THE TWO MARTHAS
There are two Martha Happes whose descendants married one another. The first Martha was the sister of Volkmar I and hence the aunt of Volkmar II. She was born in about 1545 and she died in 1628. This Martha married Jonas Wickmann / Wichmann and they had a daughter Catharina Wickman who married Johann Schöner.
Johann and Catharina had two daughters: Anna Magdalena and Catharina Maria (1632 – 1689). Anna Magdalena married Benjamin Magen as his first wife and after her death Benjamin married Sabina Leuber whose mother was the second Martha Happe. This Martha ( – 1617) was the sister of Volkmar II, the niece of the first Martha, and she married Tobias Leuber. Catharina Maria Schöner married married Johann Leuber (1588 – 1652). It is not known how Tobias and Johann are related although that they are is more than likely.
See the Magen and Leuber Families at the end of this page.
ERNST CHRISTOPH HAPPE, was the son of Jakob Happe; and was married to Anna Juliane Wurde. Allegedly he was shot by Christian Fischer in Frankenhausen. Volkmar II Happe writing in his ‘chronicle’ says that: “On 16th June 1641 Ernst Christoph Happe of Frankenhausen between 11 and 12 o’clock in the night was shot suddenly and insidiously. I don’t know who did it. Christian Fischer is said to have done this mischievous murder. There are rumors that his servant, is guilty, as they say that Fischer had given the servant a hundred thaler that he had delivered this death blow. My dear cousin Ernst Christoph Happe was buried in Frankenhausen on June 8th.”
Gustav Christian Happe (1634 – 1708)
Gustav Christian Happe was the son of Volkmar II Happe and Martha Tentzel. He married Anna Dorothea von Avemann (1644 – 1705) and they had four daughters: Sophia Johanna, Anna Dorothea, Ludmilla Magdalena, & Sophia Magdalena and two sons Gottlob Christian and Christian Günther.
Gustav, his wife Anna, and their daughter Anna Dorothea are the direct ancestors of the Three Loeck Sisters. Ludmilla Magdalena married Johann Michael Gotter and a separate page devoted to just that family can be found on this website here.
Below, Happe’s contribution to: Exercitium Iuridicum De Pignoribus & Hypothecis, published in 1655.
In 1660, Christopher Philip Richter supervised Gustav Christian’s dissertation and he was publicly examined on it and the results were published as: Annuente Sacrosancta & individua Trinitate … Patrocinante …
On 14th November 1660, Gustav Christian publically examined Johann Strauch which was published as an ‘Inaugural Address on the Challenge to Litigation’ under the title: Disputatio Inauguralis De Provocatione Ad Litem, ex Amplissima Lege; si contendat, 28. ff. de fideiussoribus Quam … in inclyta Salana, Praeside … Dn. Johanne Strauchio …
In 1666 Gustav Christian Happe contributed to Georg Adam Struve’s: Characteres Status S Rom Germ …
In 1666, Jacob Tentsel / Tenzel edited a book in praise of Anton Gunther called: Gottseliger Löwen-Muth der Gläubigen wider den Todt : Als Des … Herrn Anthon Günthers which included contributions by Gustav Christian Happe and his brother Volkmar Happe III.
In June 1689 Gustav’s maternal grandfather, Ernst Ludwig Avemann, died and a funeral service was held for him on June 9th and a funeral book was published bearing the title: Christliche Trauer- und Gedächtnis-Predigt über die Worte Hiobs Cap. XIX, 25. 26. 27. Ich weiß/ daß mein Erlöser lebet [et]c. : Bey des … … Friedenstein Herrn Ernst Ludwig Avemanns …. The book included a contribution by Gustav Christian.
Another contributor to Christliche Trauer- und Gedächtnis-Predigt über die Worte Hiobs Cap … was Friedemann Bechmann:
Other members of the family who contributed to the above funeral sermon book included: Caspar Sagittarius; Adolph Christian Avemann; Gustav Rudolph Avemann; Johann Georg Zang; Georg Wolffgang Wedelius; Saul Magnus (below); etc.
On 28th August 1671 Gustav Christian was raised to the dignity of a Palatine Counselor and Notary: Gustavus Christianus Happe Greussen A Thuringus, J.U.L.S. Cæs ….
In January 1672 at Franckenhausen Gustav Christian, as a member of the Court of Justice of Sachsenburg, was raised to the dignity of a nobleman where he was promoted by distinguished patrons and honored by friends after which he was highly titled together with the honor of bearing a hereditary coat of arms.
His ennoblement was published as: Glückwünschende Zurüff Wormit Als Der … Herr Gustav Christian Happe und über zugleich hochgeneigten conferirtes ErbWapen erhaltenen Diplomatis … [Hence from now on he could place ‘von’ in front of his name.]. The titles he now bore included: presiding officer of the Sondershusani consistory and of the sacred Lateran Palace, and count of the Imperial Palace. The publication raising him to the nobility is shown below:
On 1st August 1672 Gustav Christian was made a notary: Diploma Als von Dem WolEdlen … Herrn Gustav Christian …. Glückwünschende Zurüffe- Wormit Als Der … Herr Gustav Christian Happe …
In 1692 Gustav received further honors which were proclaimed under the title: Gustavus Christianus Happe In Dölstädt Et … JCtus, Consiliarius Palatinus, Cancellarius Svvartzburgicus, Consistorii Sondershusani Præses … : Cum Sacratissimus atque Invictissimus Princeps ac Dominus, Dominus Leopoldus … Datum Sondershusæ, die X. Septembr. Anno Nativitat. Christi M DC XCII
Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel, Gustav Christian Happe, and Georg Friedrich Meinhardt had their names attached to an annoucemnt that there would be a public lecture on the Apostolic Creed, presided over by William Ernest Tentzel, on 29th December in the Major Auditorium at the University of Wittenberg.
Gustav died in 1708 but we have been unable to locate any funeral sermons to mark the occaision although his death is noted in: Niedersächsische Familienkunde. Ein biographisches Verzeichnis. Auf Grund der Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Personalschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Hannover und anderer hannoverscher Sammlungen …
VOLCKMAR III HAPPE (1628 – 1694)
Volckmar III was the son of Volckmar II and the brother of the above Gustav Christian and hence the Nth great uncle of the Three Loeck Sisters. He married and had at least two daughters (Erdmuth Juliana and Friedelena Magdalena) and one son (Johann Ernst); however, we are unable to ascertain the name of his wife. Evidence of Volkmar III’s life comes from the bibliographic records of his time.
In 1659, as part of his official duties at Greussen, Volkmar Happe III oversaw the publication of Admeti Naenia, Welche Bey Christlicher Beerdigunge Der … Marthen Elisabehten gebohrnen Hopffi … which tells us that Martha Elisabeth, the wife of Christian Friedrich Meürers died on the 19th of the month of December in the year 1658 and that on the following 29th she was put in her quiet room, i.e. buried.
In 1667, Volkmar III Happe was instrumental in seeing to the publication of: Laurus Nobilis Martino Michaelis Norico, S. S. Theolog. Studioso.
In 1668, Volkmar III Happe contributed to: Ahasveri Fritschi, D. Consil. aulic. Rudelst-Schwartzb. Tractatio Synoptica, De Regali Iure Grutiae, Vulgo Flötz-Recht Accessere quorumdam ICtorum Responsa ad hanc rem pertinentia …
In 1668 Volkmar III Happe contributed to: Castrum Moeroris Et Honoris Traur und Ehrenzelt Mit auffgehengten Wappen …
Again in 1668 there is a mention of Volkmar III Happe in Johannis Christophori Hundeshagen … :
In 1673 Iusta Viro Ab Excellenti Virtute Memoriae Aeternaturae Dn. Guernero Rolfincio, was published and in it were two contributions by Volkmar III Happe and George Adam Struve:
In 1674, Georg Adam Struve and Volkmar Happe III contributed to the funeral book titled: Des einigen und ewigen versohnten Gottes in Christo Jesu Geistliche und allerkräftigste Träncklein/ Zu Erhaltung und Bewahrung der Gläubigen wieder das. Right, a mention of Volkmar Happe in Johannis Christophori Hundeshagen in 1668.
In 1678 Volkmar contributed to Vierfaches Kleinod der Kinder … :
In 1678 Christian Wildvogel and Volkmar III Happe contributed to: Spiritualis Christianorum Lucta, Das ist Geistlicher Christen-Streit …
In 1678 Gottlob Christian (son of Gustav Christian) and Volkmar Happe authored: Libellus De Vera Ratione Legendi, Rerum Artiumque Scriptores …
In 1679 Orionis Astrum Titulo Strenae Viro … Domino Volcmaro Happen Haereditario in Ober-Weymer … was published which recognized that Volkmar Happe III was a Vice Chancellor and President of the Superior Court for the Holy Lateran Emperor and an advisor of ‘Deep Eminence …’, etc.
In 1689 the book: Dissertatio Iuridica De Auro Fluviatili Sive Von Wasch-Gold … was published which included contributions by Georg Adam Struve, his son Burchard Gotthelf Struve, as well as Volkmar Happe:
In 1686 Volkmar III’s employer, John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, died and Volkmar placed the following foundation plaque at Thalborn church, to the left of the main entrance:
In honor of praise and thanks to the risen CHRIST JESUS in memory of the Translucent Prince Johann George, Duke of Saxony, Father of these lands, mercy, majesty, and clemency, has This house of God built and adorned from the ground up Mr. Volkmar Happe, ICTUS heir to Thalborn and Ehringsdorf Rom. Keyserl. Markpfalzhofgraf princely sachss. Weimar. Secret state councilor and President of the Upper Consistorii Anno Christi 1686.
In 1692 a dinner party was held by Elias Bindern during which a poem in praise of Volkmar Happe was published under the title: Geschützte Ehre des Poetischen Lorbeers Als … Volckmar Happe … Dem … Elias Bindern/ Aus Weymar …
Upon his death on 9th December, 1694, various publications were issued in praise of Volkmar III such as: Poetische Lorber-Krohne Aus Keißerlich-allergnädigst-verlihener … which contained among others, a poem by Christian Wildvogel.
Volkmar III’s daughter Friedelena Magdalena Happe (abt. 1650 – 1702) married Christian Gottfried Roth (1644 – 1713) – see Roth family below.
MARTHA ELISABETH HAPPE
Martha Elisabeth was the daughter of Volkmar II Happe’s (1620 – 1655) and the sister of Gustav Christian and Volckmar III Happe. She married married Carl Gunther Förster There are no genealogical databases that contain records of this marriage so knowledge of his existence comes instead from bibliographic records. For instance, Volkmar III Happe supervised a dissertation for Carl Gunther Förster.
The lack of much detail probably arises because their one and only child – Volkmar Gunther Förster (01.05.1644 – 07.11.1653) – died young. Volkmar III Happe (the brother in law of Carl Gunther) also contributed a long poem to the funeral book of Volkmar Gunther Förster. The book was titled: Christliche LeichPredigt Beym Begräbnis Des Gottsfürchtigen Frommen und Wohlerzogenen Jünglings Volckmari Guntheri Försters Des … Caroli Guntheri Försters … einigen Sohnes und Kindes: Welcher am 7. Novemb. des abgewichenen 1653. Jahrs … entschlaffen. The title tells us that the ‘godly devout and well-brought up youth’, Volckmar Gunther Förster, son of Carl Gunther Förster, died on November 7th of the year 1653. It also included a contribution by Johann Christoph Kohlhans who was related.
Other contributors to the funeral book included Volkmar Happe II.
Below, part of the contribution by Johann Christopher Kolhans who although he appears in no genealogical database is at least recorded here for posterity:
When Martha Elisabeth (Happe) Förster died in 1655 a funeral book was published entitled: Ehrengedächtnis Oder Christliche LeichPredigt bey Leichbestattung Der … Marthae Elisabethae Des … Caroli Guntheri Försters … which tells us that she died on 7th August and was buried three days later. Members of the Förster family that made contributions to the book were: Philipp Ernest; Christian Gunther; Emmanuel Gunther; and Johann Michael although there are no Happe family contributions. There is also a contribution by a member of the Kolhans / Kohlhans family.
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In 1638 Philipp Ernest Förster produced a work – Collegii Institutionum Imperialium Publici Disputatio Ultima … where Volkmar II Happe is also listed.
In 1638 Carl Gunther Föster’s name appeared on the title page of: Disputatio De Condictione Furtiva ..
A work titled: Disputatio Inauguralis De Legitima with the following contributors: Christoph Philipp Richter; Carl Günther Förster; Volkmar Happe; Philipp Horst; Daniel Stahl, etc. was published at Jena in 1642.
In 1663 a book was published where Carl Gunther is identified as the main topic: Widerwertiges Urtheil Gottes und der Welt (left). Oratio Panegyrica Serenissimae Principi Ac Dominae (right).
THE DAUGHTERS OF GUSTAV CHRISTIAN HAPPE
SOPHIA JOHANNA HAPPE (1669 – 1721) was the daughter of Gustav Christian Happe and Anna Dorothea Avemann and the sister of the Three Loeck Sisters direct ancestor Anna Dorothea Happe.
She married Johann Georg Zang (1659 – 1720) lawyer, government councilor, privy councilor, and chancellor who was the President of the consistory in Arnstadt. Their lives were memorialized in two works – Monumentum immortalitatis virtutibus ac meritis partum and Memoria Zangiana Programmate Orationi Parentali in Honorem …
Johann Georg Zang’s father was Johann David Zang, shown below, left. Right, Johann David’s funeral sermon book: Der für Gottes Güte und Treue Demütig-Dancksagende Jacob Aus seinen schönen Worten Gen. 32. v. 10. : Bey … Leichbestattung Des … Herrn M. Johann David Zangens …
Johann David’s two sons contributed verses to his funeral book as shown below:
The brother of Johann Georg Zang was Johann Ernst (1663 – 1730). His daughter was Sophia Albertina Elisabeth ( ? – 1721), who, in 1713, became the first wife of the pastor Gottfried Tentzel in Arnstadt.
SOPHIA MAGDALENA HAPPE (July 19, 1667 in Sondershausen – August 21, 1716) was the daughter of Gustav Christian Happe and Anna Dorothea Avemann and the sister of the above Sophia Johanna and the Three Loeck Sisters direct ancestor Anna Dorothea Happe.
In about 1684 Sophia Magdalena married Georg Friedrich Meinhardt / Meinhard / Meinhart. Georg was born on 4th April 1651 in Ohrdruf (Thuringia), and died on 10th April 1718 in Sondershausen.
He was the son of the bailiff Johann Otto Meinhart and attended school in Arnstadt. He then moved to the University of Jena in 1673, where he earned a master ‘s degree in philosophy in 1675 and held philosophical lectures there. In 1677 he accompanied Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel to the University of Wittenberg, where he was admitted to the philosophical faculty on April 5, 1680 as an adjunct. However, in the same year he was appointed by Count Christian Wilhelm zu Schwarzburg to tutor his sons.
With the prospect of a theological position, he completed his licentiate in theology on March 14, 1683, and was appointed superintendent and Schwarzburg consistorial councilor in Sondershausen that same year. He received his doctorate in theology on December 11, 1683 at Wittenberg. In his work as chief clergyman in Sondershausen, he held spiritual synods, wrote theological works and inaugurated the Trinity Church on November 25, 1691.
In 1685 Georg Friedrich Meinhardt and Gustav Christian Happe made contributions to: Die auff Erden nicht verwarlosete sondern im Himmel wol verwahrete Beylage …
In 1676, Georg Friedrich Meinhart published: Sive De Nasiraeis Dissertatio Philologica Prima which was dedicated to Jacob Tentzel. It was published at the Universität Jena.
Three family members: Gustav Christian Happe, Georg Friedrich Meinhart, and Johann Conrad(i) all appear in a funeral book in memory of Jacob Heinrich Tentzel published in 1685 entitled: Preaching from Timothy beginning verses “The encampment not neglected on earth but rather kept in the sky” the funeral book for Jacob Tentzel (renowned Doctor of Theology) who died on 25th March and who was buried on the 27th March.
Conradi had married Johanna Augusta Dorothee Meinhart (1692 – 1718) the daughter of Sophia Magdalena Happe (1667 – 1716) and Georg Friedrich Meinhart (1651 – 1718).
In 1678, Georg Friedrich Meinhart submitted a dissertation that was supervised by Wilhelm Ernst Tentsel: Qorbān lô qorbān sive diatribe philosophica Corban ut …
Sophia Magdalena and Georg Friedrich had five children:
- Magdalena Sophia (born September 11, 1684 in Sondershausen), married first on June 21, 1702 in Arnstadt with the magistrate of Arnstadt Christian Rudorff and second Johann Hulsemann III (1676 – 1729).
- Christian Friedrich (born October 1, 1686 in Sondershausen)
- Augusta Magdalena (January 10, 1689 in Sondershausen; † January 9, 1692),
- Johanna Augusta Dorothea (born on April 21, 1692 in Sondershausen; † May 29, 1718) married. on September 30, 1716 in Sondershausen with doctor Johann Friedrich Conradi
- Sophia Christiana (born April 30, 1699 in Sondershausen)
The second husband of Magdalene Sophia Meinhard, Johann Hulsemann III (1676 – 1729), was the son of Johann Hulsemann II (1649 – 1710) and the grandson of Johann Hulsemann I (1602 – 1661). The daughter of this earliest Johann (I) and sister of Johann (II), Sophie Margarethe Hulsemann, married Johann Martin Luther The Elder the great grandson of the Reformer Martin Luther (see chart).
Below, various portraits of Johann Hulsemann I (1602 – 1661), as noted above, his grandson Johann III married Magdalena Sophie Meinhard (1684 – 1702), the daughter of Sophia Magdalena (Happe) Meinhard.
Since Johann Hulsemann I was the superintendent pastor of Leipzig, it is not surprising that, as such, he interacted with members of the Three Loeck Sisters’ family members on a regular basis. As a result, there are many instances where Hulsemann and a family member appear together in the same publication. For example, Georg Berlich contributed a verse to Huslemann’s Clavis Ligans: Sive De Disciplina Ecclesiastica In membra Scandalosa Exercitatio Practica …
When Gottfried Ehrenreich Berlich died in 1659 Johann Hulsemann supervised the publication of his funeral book: Ehrengedächtnis Des weiland Wohl Ehrenvesten Groß-Achtbarn Wolgelahrten und Wolweisen Hn. Gottfried Ehrenreich Berlichs … from which we learn that Berlich was in the prime of his years, namely in the 30th year of his age in the month of October of the year 1659 when he died.
In 1689 Johanna Raisins gave birth to a healthy young daughter on 7th July, however the mother did not survive and died on 14th. This sorry state was memorialized by the publication of a funeral book titled: Die mit Gott Vereinigte gläubige Seele : Bey … Leich-Bestattung Der … Frauen Johannen Rosinen, gebohrner von Ryßel … Several members of the family described on this page contributed: Gottlob Christian Happe, Volkmar III Happe, Johannes Hulsemann, Christian Wildvogel, etc.
The Hülsemann – Luther Connection:
Martin Luther >> Paul Luther >> Johannes Ernestus Luther >> Johann Martin Luther, the elder (November 11, 1619 – July 13, 1669) = Margaretha Sophia von Döring (Hülsemann) (August 31, 1638 – May 15, 1693) > > Johann Martin Luther the Younger
(Hülsemann)
Below, Acclamatio Votiva Nobilissimo Sponsorum Pari, Joanni Martino Luthero, in Hohberg, Divi Lutheri Pronepoti, & Margaritae Sophiae, Incomparabilis Hülsemanni Filiae, Nuptias celebrantibus, d. XIX. Iunii, M. DC. LV. : Nuncupata a Commensalibus Hülsemannianis,1655. This tells us that Johann Martin Luther [the elder] and Margertha Sophia Hulsemann were married on 19 June 1655 at Leipzig. Margertha’s nephew Johann III Hulsemann (1676 – 1729) married Magdalena Sophie Meinhardt (1684 – 1740) the daughter of Sophie Magdalene Happe (1667 – 1740).
THE SONS OF GUSTAV CHRISTIAN HAPPE
Gottlob Christian von Happe
Gottlob Christian Happe’s father was Gustav Christian Happe and his mother was Anna Dorothea Avemann and hence he was the brother of the Three Loeck Sisters direct ancestor Anna Dorothera (Happe) Werner, as well as the above-mentioned Sophia Magdalena.
In 1680 he wrote: Praeeminentia Electoris Moguntini In Splendidissima Inclytae Ienensis Academiae Panegyri Demonstrata A Gottlobio Christiano Happio, Greussenio-Duringo …
In the book The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice by Andre Wakefield, the following passages refer to Wakefield’s uncovering of a letter written by Gottlob Christian Happe, on 7th April, 1717, to Prince Friedrich II of Sachsen – Gotha. The letter was enclosed in Happe’s anonymously authored: Nichts Bessers, als die Accise, Wenn man nur will … (1717) [below].
The title of the book, as translated by Google, is: Nothing better than the Accise, if you only want to; Or a detailed description of what to praise and scold about Accise. An Accise is an Excise Tax, i.e. an indirect tax most often levied by the State at the time of the manufacture of certain products (tobacco, alcohol, salt, etc.) or, in certain countries, on consumer goods.
Gottlob’s letter which Wakefield discovered is to be found in the Schloss Friedenstein (Gotha). It has since been catalogued in the manuscript collection of the research library there.
Happe begins his letter:
“Serene Duke, graciously reigning Prince and Lord, if one wants to see the model of a God- fearing, upright, and perfect prince, who loves all his subjects like his own children, and who works gladly for their perpetual welfare and increase, then it is surely your Serene Highness.”
Happe, who was sending his book along to Prince Friedrich, marked “certain important passages, where they begin and end, with horizontal lines,” so that the prince could go through them in “half an hour.” In particular little dashes penciled in the margins indicate that Happe, wanted to highlight the interconnected problems of fraud, useless ordinances, and faithless officials. He also wanted a job.
The plague, Happe claimed, had been mere child’s play compared to the onslaught of police ordinances, edicts, statutes, and orders issuing from the many chanceries, chambers and councils of the Holy Roman Empire. All remedies seemed powerless to stop the madness, and no “state physician” had yet found a cure. The ordinances published during the last generation alone, Happe continued, could fill St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and things seemed to be deteriorating by the day. He wrote:
“Hasn’t it constantly gotten worse and more vexing from day to day? Haven’t all these measures enjoyed as little respect and produced as little as empty paper, with nothing written upon it? One has treated them like bits of chaff or worthless slags.”
Happe considered the situation serious enough to merit radical therapy. Like a poisonous weed, the existing system, a system based on lies, had to be extirpated. Instead of publishing more edicts and ordinances, which nobody observed anyway, it was time to think about enforcement. Happe imagined himself an inventor- entrepreneur of state finance, a Leibniz of the treasury, who would engineer a better system. And he had the “machine” to do it. Most palaces, he explained, had empty rooms and apartments that could be used to house all the meetings of the prince’s various councils and colleges—the chancery, the fiscal chamber (Kammer), and the secret council (Geheimer Rat), among others.
More important, the building could be configured for surveillance. A network of tunnels leading to a series of cabinets, or “loges,” would allow the prince furtively to watch his officials. In each cabinet, the windows would be covered by “very fine lattices, screens and the like, so that the person sitting in the loge, while seeing and hearing what happened and what was said in the chamber, could not himself be seen.”
Happe imagined cabinets like these in every room, so that the prince could observe the business of state whenever and wherever he pleased. He might even “write, read, eat and drink” in his box, where he would “hear and see everything that was happening there, and no person would know whether or not he was in the loge.” Happe claimed that his machine would “instill great fear in the prince’s servants, since they would at all times have to worry that he was sitting in his cabinet.” It would benefit the whole land. “There would be such industriousness, order and loyalty!” The invention would work whether or not the prince was observing, since his officials and subjects “would have more fear of the empty cabinet, or loge, than they once had of the prince himself.”
Moreover, Happe thought that his invention would spill out beyond the palace, into the streets and structures of territorial towns and cities. Every minister, director, nobleman, state official, collector, merchant, banker, artisan, farmer, or burgher could make use of the same principle. Everyone would have the sense of being watched. “All work will be done more honestly and industriously. Many millions less will be stolen, or can be stolen, than up until now.” As if to drive home the threat of constant surveillance, Happe suggested that the doors of the palace be emblazoned with a motto: “God sees and hears everything; the emperor, king or prince [sees and hears] as often as he wants.”
There is no evidence, that Happe’s loge was ever built or that any prince even bothered to read his book. Nor did his panoptical dream aim to discipline prisoners; it was a vision for monitoring fiscal officials. But like many other contemporary projects and plans, this one has a whiff of desperation about it. Impoverished scholars and academics, in search of patronage and preferment, were especially prone to construct elaborate visions of control and order. It would be a mistake to take them too seriously.
If we are to believe Happe, the “well-ordered police state” was nothing more than a paper tiger, existing only in the dreams and delusions of the statute writers. In theory it was a beautiful system; in practice it was an empty promise. Looking back from the present, historians have discerned a rising tide of discipline during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; look-ing forward from the past, Happe and his contemporaries were more likely to sing the anxieties of a recalcitrant and disordered world.
Still, Happe’s invention is helpful in highlighting how subjects imagined sovereigns in eighteenth-century northern Europe. His work can be related to the tradition of renaissance “machine books”, filled with pictorial and literary descriptions of machines, through which mechanical practitioners presented their work to sovereigns and other patrons. Happe’s design
allowed the monarch to imagine himself as an all-knowing perceiver. As such, it is an example of how inventions, imagined orreal, could be a means of shaping and intertwining mechanical practitioners and sovereigns of early modern absolutist states.
In 1680 Happe published: Praeeminentia Electoris Moguntini In Splendidissima Inclytae Ienensis Academiae Panegyri Demonstrata A Gottlobio Christiano Happio, Greussenio-Duringo …
In 1686 Gottlob Christian Happe’s name was affixed to the title page of: Disputatio inauguralis de particulari territorio subinfeudato. He was also the anonymous author of a number of works including: Kurtzer aber doch gründlicher Beweiß, daß ein Fürste ..
In 1717 Gottlob Christian Happe published: Der verständige, kluge und ehrliche, auch der unverständige, dumme und betrügerische Saltz- und Berg-Geist …
Below, Gottlob Christian Happe’s Leges inter arma loquentes [The laws of the times of war] published at Jena in 1683.
The above also contained a contribution by Heinrich Balthasar [H.B.] Roth (see Roth family below).
In 1718 Gottlob Christian Happe published: Kurtze und wohlgemeinte Erinnerungen Uber des Herren Hof-Raths. Although not found on the book itself, Gottlob’s name is associated with the book in all catalog databases.
Happe was particularly interested in salt, and taxing the mineral as evidenced by his books of 1717 Der verständige, kluge und ehrliche, auch der unverstandige … and of 1718 – Der aufrichtige, wahrhaffte und zuverlässige, auch der betrügliche und richtsnutze … and 1719 – Der In seiner eignen gemachten …
In 1720 Happe published: Gottlob Christian von Happens, Königl. Preußischen Krieges-Raths, Gewisse und Beständige Erfindung …
Christian Gunther Happe – brother of the above.
We can only locate one contemporary source that mentions Christian Gunther and that is: Plausus Votivi, Quos, Cum Auspiciis S. S. Triados, cura & praecipuis sumtibus … Domini Christiani Wilhelmi … published in 1691 but the book has not been fully digitized and Happe is only a contributor to the work.
He matriculated from the University of Geissen in 1701. In Musikalische Schriften (2005) we find this rather obscure mention:
“The other DECLAMATOR, Christian Gunther Happe son of the Schwartzburg, Sonderhaus, chancellor deals DE NOTIS PAEDAGOGISMI, (notes on pedagogy) from the characteristics of PEDANTRY. Presents in the introduction what the wiser Heyde said which was that most people complained about the gods, that they had not distributed the good of body and happiness as health, beauty, wealth and honor immediately enough, but no one complained about the lack of good spirits or with their Words NEMINEM REQUIRERE BONAM MENTEM: everyone considers himself rich enough in this / and notices such a lack more in others / than in himself. see themselves as themselves / and therefore tell such stories / so that he recognizes them / hates them and learns to beware of them in the future. Then proceeds heroically to TRACTATION, reports the several characteristics of PEDANTRY.”
JOHANN ERNST HAPPE
Johann Ernst was the only son of Volkmar III Happe and the brother of Erdmuth Juliana and Friedelena Magdalena Happe (abt. 1650 – 1702). He appears in no databases that we are aware of except for cerl.org and we can find only one record in Worldcat. He might have died young in 1705 as a result of a duel as there is a scarp of evidence to suggest this as follows: “Return of the student involved in the duel from the Lühe Johann Ernst Happe from Sondershausen to the University of Halle a. S., 1705.” [See: Sources on the history of the university, students and corporations in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage by Jürgen Kloosterhuis.]
In 1690, Johann Ernst Happe, appears on the title page of the funeral book for his sister, Erdmuth Juliana, who had married Christopher Wildvogel: Das Seelige Führen Der Kinder Gottes Welches von des Höchsten Güte erhalten … [ See Erdmuth Juliana below]
ERDMUTH JULIANA HAPPE
Erdmuth Juliana Happe was the daughter of Volckmar III Happe and hence the sister of the above Johann Ernst and the first cousin of the Three Loeck Sister’s direct ancestor Anna Dorothera (Happe) Werner.
Erdmuth Juliana married Christian Wildvogel (1644 – 1728) and from their wedding book – Als Des … Hn. Volkmar Happens uf Ehringsdorf und Tahlborn Hochberühmten ICti, Kais. Hof- und Pfalzgrafens Fürstl. Sächß. zu Weimar Hochbestalten Vice-Kanzlars und geheimten Rahts we learn that her father Volkmar III Happe is a famous Vice-Chancellor and secret State Councilor and Highly respectable President and that his second maiden daughter – Erdmuth Juliana – married Mr. Christian Wildvogel on April 19 of the year 1683 at Weimar at a prestigious gathering.
The death of Erdmuth Juliana (Happe) Wildvogel in 1690 was marked by several funeral books one of which bore the title: Den am Himmlischen GebuhrtsTage Erhaltene Ehren-Schmuck Als des … Hrn. Volckmar Happen Auff Ehrings-Dorff ICti, Comitis Palatini Caesarei Hochfürstl … The title tells us that Wildvogel is a world-famous professor at the University of Jena and that his “most loyal marriage sweetheart” died on the 25th day of the autumn month (the fifth wine month) of the year 1690, at the age of thirty-four, when she was laid to rest, accompanied by distinguished friends and relatives.
In 1684 both Volkmar III Happe and his son in law Christian Wildvogel contributed to another funeral book: Ausbündige Davids-Lust Aus dem XXXVII. Psalm v. 4. 5. …
Christian Wildvogel’s first wife was Sophia Catharina Krull (1651-1681), the daughter of the Magdeburg privy councilor Johann Krull (1610 – 1668) and his wife Juliane Struve (1621 – 1679). Juliane was the sister of Georg Adam Struve. Christian’s second wife was Erdmuth Juliana Happe (1656-1690) but there were no surviving children; his third wife was Christiana Sophia Noricus († July 23, 1714 in Jena), the daughter of the Leipzig professor of law Johann Ernst Noricus, the widow of the Leipzig merchant Theodor Oertel. His fourth wife was the Imperial Baroness Anna Regina Margaretha von Buttlar, the daughter of the Swedish Sergeant Joshua Achilles von Buttlar and his wife Maria Barbara von Stein.
LEUBER FAMILY
As noted above, Martha Happe was the sister of Volkmar I and hence the aunt of Volkmar II. Martha married Jonas Wickmann / Wichmann and they had a daughter Catharina Wickman who married Johann Schöner. In turn, they had a daughter Catharina Maria Schoner / Schones who married Johann Leuber (1588 – 1652).
The Leuber family begins with: Anthonius / Anton Leuber a theologian; master’s degree student in Jena (1572 imm.); 1580 Rector in Greußen; 1580 pastor in Bilzingsleben; 1581 deacon in Kindelbrück; 1582 pastor in Gorsleben; from 1596 pastor in Greußen; Superintendent of the county of Schwarzburg and assessor of the Sondershausen consistory.
Johann Leuber was the son of Anthonius Leuber and his wife Anna Reichmann (* 1568). Upon his death, an appreciation of Antonius Leuber’s life was published in 1606 with contributions (among others) by two members of the Tentzel family – Johannes and Andreas. The title of the book was: Epitymbia Ad Tumulum reverendi, Clarissimi Et De omnibus bonis disciplinis quam optime meriti Viri, Dn. M. Antonii Leuberi, Pastoris In Oppido Schwartzburgico Greussensi vigilantissimi &c … which refers to the fact that Anthony Leuber was revered and renowned in all kinds of disciplines and that he was the ‘Shepherd’ of the town of Greussen and that he died quietly on the 17th March at 3.00 in the afternoon, and the following day was buried with great sorrow.
In July 1619 Johann Leuber married Catharina Maria Schöner († 1639) who was the granddaughter of Martha (Happe) Wickmann. Of the nine children of this marriage, only the son Wilhelm (* 1635) and four daughters survived. One of the daughters, Sophia, married Paul Gottlieb Berlich (1640 – 1670) who was the son of the Three Loeck Sisters Nth great grandfather Burchard by his second wife Sophia Nehls. The Loeck Sisters are descended from Burchard’s first marriage to Christine Cilling / Zilling.
After attending high school in Lemgo, Johann studied law at the universities of Jena and Wittenberg and received his doctorate in 1616 from the University of Basel. He mastered the foreign languages – Greek, Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. He had acquired this knowledge on longer educational trips. During a six-year employment at the Reich Chamber Court in Speyer, he dealt with litigation and chamber court matters. After being appointed to the Blackburg Court Council in Sondershausen, he then worked there for six years.
In 1623 he was appointed Elector of the County of Henneberg by the Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg I. He was next appointed court and judicial councilor in 1639, he was sent to Nuremberg for the Elector’s Day. From 1640 to 1642 he was at the Reichstag in Regensburg. In addition to Johann Ernst Pistoris, Johann Leuber took part in the peace negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück as Principal Envoy from Saxony. On 24th November, 1648, he was the last to sign the peace treaties and, after completing the formalities and paying the debts required under the treaties, returned to Dresden on July 2, 1649. From August 1651 to July 1652 he worked for the Danish court on a diplomatic mission.
Honors: Emperor Ferdinand III elevates him to nobility in 1651.
In recognition of his achievements, Leuber received a house on Moritzstrasse in Dresden from the elector. The tomb of his daughter Eleonore (1621-1646) was in the Frauenkirche until 1945.
A funeral book: Sacra Depositi Jura … was published on Leuber’s death which noted that he was interred on 30th July.
Benjamin Leuber (1601 – 1675)
So far, there are no genealogical databases that contain this Benjamin Leuber however he interacted with several members of the family described on this website and which can be found among the bibliographic records. An example of this is:
Disputationem Iuridicam Inauguralem De Pecuniariorum Nominum Et Variis … by Benjamin Leuber including Gabriel Tuntzel / Tentsel and Volkmar II Happe, as well as Nicolaus Hellfrich 1629.
Two works by Benjamin Leuber:
HEINRICH BOZEO / BOEZO
Euphrosinia Leuber (1632 – 1689), the daughter of Johann and Catharina Maria (Schöner) Leuber and granddaughter of Volckmar Happe married, in 1650, Heinrich Boezo (1615 – 1689). Bozeo was a physicians starting as a student in Wittenberg, then Jena and finally Leipzig. He became a personal and court physician in Dresden.
Boezeo’s medical dissertation was titled: Miscella Illustrium Quaestionum Medicarum …
The Three Loeck Sisters great uncle Matthias Berlich’s funeral book had among many contributions two worth noting: one from the Three Loeck Sisters great grandfather Burchard Berlich and one from Heinrich Bozeo.
The title of the book was: Sermon by Johannes Horn on the letter of St. Paul Phil. 23. delivered at the funeral of Matthias Berlich well known Doctor of Jurisprudence and legal councilor who died on the 8th August of 1638 and was buried on the 10th in the Pauliner Kirchen.
In 1640 Heinrich Boezo published: De cancro, morbo illo perniciosissimo, disputationem medicam … [The debate about cancer, the most dangerous disease].
In 1611 Magia naturalis, Das ist Kunst und Wunderbuch: Allen Kunstbegierigen was published by Wolfgang Hildebrand who dedicated it to Johann Schonart [Schoner] and Jonae [Jonas] Wickmann.
MAGEN FAMILY
Benjamin I Magen married two Happe descendants: first, he married Anna Magdalena Schoner whose grandmother was Martha Happe, the sister of Volkmar I. Second, Benjamin married Sabina Leuber whose mother was Martha Happe the sister of Volkmar II (see chart to clear confusion).
From these two marriages Benjamin produced the following children: Benjamin (II) who married Maria Margaretha Herr and who produced Benjamin III; Johann Christoph Magen who married Elisabeth Anna Happe and produced Johann Wilhelm Magen (1656 – 1699); and Tobias Magen (1627-1687) who married Anna Margaretha Hesse.
In 1608, Benjamin I Magen contributed to the book: De Numinibus Et Ducibus Studiorum […]ocharion Euchrēston which included contributions by Ernest Tentzel; Andreas Happe; Johann Volckmar Happe; and Johann Leuber. The book has yet to be digitized. This is the first instance of the existence of Johann Volckmar Happe who otherwise is not mentioned in any other source.
Benjamin also contributed to Johann Georg Richter’s funeral book: Das Evangelium von unserer Seligkeit, Stellte bey … Leichen-Bestattung Des …
In 1681 Benjamin Magen II’s wife (Maria Margaretha Herr) died and a funeral book was published in her honor: Die beständige Gedult und Hoffnung … Der … Maria Margretha Des … Benjamin Magen but it has not been digitized yet.
The most well recorded Magen is Johann Wilhelm, the son of Johann Christoph and Elisabeth Anna (Happe) Magen. He was a mayor from the Thuringian city of Greussen. He married Anne Christina Schlaff the daughter of Eberhard Schlaff (1635-1680).
In 1670 Johann Wilhelm decided to learn the trade as a trader and so he began a five-year apprenticeship with one of his Schlaff brothers-in-law, first in Nordhausen and then in Arnstadt. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for a year and a half as a merchant for his brother-in-law before moving to Leipzig. There he was initially in the service of a confectioner and merchant, and later two silk traders. Probably because of the plague epidemic in 1680, he left Leipzig and returned to Arnstadt. Ten years later he received the office of an urban builder in Arnstadt. He suffered significant losses in money and goods from criminal activities and debtors, although this loss of wealth did not plunge him into poverty.
Johann Wilhelm Magen and Heinrich Balthasar Roth are on the title page of – Disputatio Inauguralis Iuridica De Characteribus [1682].
In 1696 – To pan Das ist bey Christlicher Leichbestattung Des Johann Wilhelm Magens…
1675 Carl Fredrich Happe and Johann Wilhelm Magen contributed to: Disputatio Iuridica De Varia Iniuriarum Coercitione. CFH’s contribution begins at the bottom of the page ‘Madrigal’ and continues on the second. Reminder – Magen’s mother was a Happe.
In 1699, on the death of Johann Wilhelm Magen, his funeral book was published titled: Concoctio Crucis Mystica; Bey … Leich Funeral Des … Johann Wilhelm Magens …
The funeral book also included a poem by Gottfried Tentzel; as well as depictions of ancient coins which is explained below.
In the funeral sermon book for Johann Wilhelm Magen (1656-1699) (above), merchant and councilor in Arnstadt, ancient coins are interspersed in the text, whose coin images show parallels to Magen’s career. A piece of money, for example, should remind one of Magen’s commercial activity, which shows the ancient god Mercury, the patron saint of merchants, with a purse in his hand. The text contains a total of seven such coins. The originals came from the deceased. For Johann Wilhelm Magen, the printing of these coins, which he certainly chose, was not only an accompaniment to his successful curriculum vitae. The collection of antique coins also demonstrated wealth and a certain degree of classic education. And so it is hardly surprising that the gems did not leave their owner even in death and were added to his Todtes-Grufft after its old-fashioned use.
Copy from the death register of the New Church in Arnstadt, 1699, No. 52:
May 15th Johann Wilhelm Magen, the Raths builder and trader here, a husband, who in the evening at 5 o’clock died with a funeral sermon, was buried aged 43 years, 3 months, and 4 days.
Because he bequeathed 800 Folrin for the organ in the New Church, he was given a burial place in it, it was arched for to 2 people, including his future widow.
In order to advance the construction of an organ appropriate to the new church at Arnstadt, the merchant and city councilor Johann Wilhelm Magen donated 800 guilders from his assets on May 9, 1699 (two days before his death) in a supplement to his will. Accordingly, the city council could look for a suitable organ builder. The councilor and superintendent Johann Gottfried Olearius signed the contract for a new organ with the Mühlhausen organ maker Johann Friedrich Wender on October 17, 1699.
Johann Sebastian Bach traveled from Weimar to Arnstadt in early July 1703 and checked out the completed organ. The 18-year-old tested the new organ together with city organist Christoph Herthum. His organ playing seems to have found favor in Arnstadt, because on August 9, 1703 he was appointed organist of the New Church. His duties included organ playing during the main services on Sundays and public holidays, prayer hours on Mondays at 7 a.m., vespers with confession on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., and the early sermon on Thursdays at 7 a.m. In July 1707 Bach left Arnstadt and took up the post of organist at the Divi Blasii church at Mühlhausen.
In the year of commemoration of Bach’s 250th birthday in 1935, the New Church was renamed “Bach Church”.
Carl Gustav Magen was the brother of Benjamin III. When he died on 30th December 1680, a funeral book was published under the title: Führer der Betrübten aus Psalm. XXV. 17. Bey ansehnlicher Leich-bestattung Des … Herren Carl Gustav Magens … Carl Freidrich Happe contributed to the funeral and which was edited by Jacob Tentsel. We therefore assume from this bibliographic record that Carl Gustav is of this Magen family although he remains unrecorded in any other form.
There were many other interrelated family members who made contributions to Carl Gustav’s funeral book such as: Jacob Tentzel; Johann Philipp Schmidt; Benjamin Schmidt; Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel; Benjamin Magen; Georg Friedrich Meinhart; Johann Wilhelm Magen; Georg-Christian Schmidt; Christian Schmidt; Volckmar Tobias Herr; and Tobias Magen, etc.
In 1649 a language thesis: Skiagraphia lingua Syro-Chaldaicae, cum analyseos Syriacae specimine was published by Johann Ernst Gerhard, in which Jacob Tentzel and Tobias Magen appeared as examiners. [Tobias was the son of Bnejamin I from his first wife Sabina Leuber].
The next most renowned Magen was Benjamin III Magen (1660 – 1722) who was a physician. He was the third Magen to be named Benjamin. His father was Benjamin II and his mother was Maria Margaretha Herr.
When Benjamin Magen III died in 1722 a sumptuous funeral book was published: Gläubigen heilige Freude in Gott Welche An dem Exempel des weyland … Herrn Benjamin Magens, Erb-, Lehn und Gerichtsherrn auf Gaschwitz und Döbnitz-Deuben … as shown below. There, he is decribed as hereditary fief and court lord of Gaschwitz and Döbnitz-Deuben and that he died on the 6th September 1722 at Leipzig where he was “snatched from the world by a blissful departure”. Afterwhich, on 20th October 1722, his life was commemorated in a service held in the church at Groß-Deuben.
Der Gläubigen etc also included contributions by Luder Mencke, Johann Burchard Mencke, Heinrich Magen and Johann Christian Magen.
In 1737 Ludwig Magen published An Is Qvi Alimenta Vivo Praestitit. His brother Heinrich appears on the dedication page of Eucharisticarum Trias …
There appear to be no descendants of the Magen family; at least there are no databases on the internet that indicate the continued existence of this particular family. Remnants of the family can be found in various publications in which names such as Christian Benjamin Magen and Elias Christoph Magen appear.
GUNTHER FAMILY
Carl Friedrich Happe married Anna Eva Widdeken and they had one child: Catharina Dorothea Elisabeth Happe who was born on 30th October, 1692 in Walkenried. She was baptized on 31st October 1692 at Walkenried. She married in 1714 at Neustadt Harz Johann Michael Günther. He was born on 15th October 1665 in Mattstedt. He died on 2nd February 1720 in Neustadt Harz. They had one son:
Christoph Friedrich Günther was born on 21st May 1715 in Neustadt Harz. He died on 5th June 1757 in Stolberg Harz. Christoph married Henriette Emilie Elisabeth Mack on 16th October 1742 in Stolberg Harz. She was born in Heringen an der Helm. She died on 28th June 1767 in Stolberg Harz. They had one son (at least):
Johann Theodor Liebegott Günther [JTLG] was born on 27th July 1752 in Stolberg Harz. He died on 19th January 1817 in Stolberg Harz. He was buried on 23rd January 1817 in Stolberg. Johann married Dorothea Friederike Luise Henriette Weyland [DFLHW] on 26th November 1780 in Stolberg Harz. She was born on 11th June 1757 in Stolberg Harz. She died on 20th January 1824 in Stolberg Harz.
JTLG was Gräfl. Stolberg’s chamber director, councilor and lawyer. He had 9 children with Dorothee Friederike Henriette including Friederike Luise Auguste Günther who was born on 14 November 1783 in Stolberg Harz. She was baptized on 16th November 1783 in Stolberg. She died on 27th February 1831 in Heringen.
She married Wilhelm Ludwig Oberländer on 28th June 1801 in Stolberg Harz. He was born on 23rd August 1760 in Heringen an der Helm. He died on 27th November 1823 in Heringen.
BECHMANN, ROTH, AND LÖSCHER FAMILES
SUSANNA MARGARETHA HAPPE
In 1617 Susanna Margaretha Happe, the sister of the Three Loeck Sisters direct ancestor Volkmar Happe II (1587 – 1645), married Kaspar Schultz / Schulteis / Schultes and they had a daughter Susanna Margaretha (1619 -1655) who married Laurentius Andreas Roth (1608 – 1675). He was was a lawyer and a councilor to the Counts of Schwarzburg, as well as a bailiff. Laurentius and Susannah Margaretha had at least the following children:
- Heinrich Balthasar Roth (1639 – 1689) who married Regina Margaretha Hedenus;
- Margaretha Roth (1641 – 1665) who married Friedemann Bechmann (1628 – 1703);
- Jacob Friedrich Roth (1643 – 1686) who married Clara Sabina Schnidt (1653 – 1703). He was a theologian; 1662 student in Jena; 1669 pastor in Clingen; from 1671 pastor and consistory inspector in Greußen;
- Christian Gottfried Roth (1644 – 1713) who married Friedelena Magdalena Happe (abt. 1650 – 1702); and
- Anna Sofia Roth (1649 – 1670) who married Caspar Löscher (1636 – 1718)
Friedemann Bechmann was born in Elleben, a small town in the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, a short distance to the north of Erfurt. His father, Andreas Bechmann, was a church pastor originally from Remda, nearby. However, his father died in 1633 and after his mother, born Anna Maria Glass, also died, in 1637, he was taken in by his mother’s brother, the physician Balthasar Glass, and grew up in Arnstadt. Later he was taken on by another of his mother’s relatives, Salomo Glass, and educated at the gymnasium (secondary school) in Gotha.
The siblings of Friedemann included: Andreas (22.09.1622-13.04.1676); Balthasar Christian (1617 – 1669); Ernst Sigismund (1625 – 1685); Johann Andreas (? – 1698); and Johannes Bartholomaeus (1619 – 1663).
In 1649, Bechmann transferred to the University of Jena where he enrolled to study Philosophy and Theology. On 5 August 1651 he was awarded his Masters degree. In the Philosophy faculty he attended lectures and tutorial sessions presented by Johann Zeisold (1599–1667), Daniel Stahl (1589–1654), Paul Slevogt (1596–1655) and Johann Christfried Sagittarius (1617–1689). Over in the Theology faculty, those who taught him included Johannes Musaeus (1613–1681), Christian Chemnitz (1615–1666) and Johann Ernst Gerhard the elder.
After Stahl’s death in 1654 he obtained a permanent position as an “adjunct” in philosophy at the university and on 16 January 1656 Bechmann took over Stahl’s teaching chair, as professor of Logic and Philosophy. In 1668 he also became a professor of Theology, taking the position vacated through the death of Johann Ernst Gerhard, and received an honorary Theology doctorate. Below, several portraits of Friedemann Bechmann:
He was appointed Rector of the university for the summer term of 1665. His second appointment as rector covered the winter term of 1671. Rectors at Jena were always appointed for six-month terms: between 1665 and 1697 Friedemann Bechmann served as Jena University Rector seven times. Friedemann died in Jena on 9 March 1703.
In 1651 Authoritate Ac Decreto Magnifici & Nobilissimi ICtorum Ordinis in Alma Salana was published by Georg Adam Struve, with Christoph Philipp Richter and Johann Volkmar Bechman(n) (1624 – 1689) making contributions. The relationship between Johann Volkmar Bechmann and Friedemann Bechmann is so far unclear.
In 1626 the funeral sermon for Jacob Weits was performed by Andreas Bechmann and published under the title: Christliche Leich-Predigt Uber den seligen Hintritt aus dieser vergänglichen Welt Des … Herrn Jacob Weitzen vornehmen Handelsmann zu Georgthal: Welchen der liebe Gott nach seinem heiligen Rath und Willen am 30 Tage des Augustmonats dieses 1656 Jahrs … abgefordert und dessen Leichnam den 2 Tag des Herbstmonats … beygesetzet worden: In Volckreicher Versamblung gehalten … Von Andrea Bechmann … [Not digitized] Johann David Zang made a contribution.
In 1661 Georg Adam Struve and Heinrich Balthasar Roth (Friedemann Bechmann’s brother in law) published: Disp. inaug. iur. de poenitentia et voluntatis mutatione … [on repentance and change of will] …
In 1663 Georg Adam Struve, Heinrich Balthasar Roth, and Friedemann Bechmann together contributed to: Disputatio Inauguralis Iuridica De Poenitentia Et Voluntatis Mutatione …
In 1665 Georg Adam Struve, his father in law Christopher Philipp Richter, and Jacob Aviani all contributed verses to the book dedicated to Johann Volkmar Bechmann: Ex Decreto Et Autoritate … ICtorum Ordinis, in … Academia Ienensi, Praeside … Dn. Joh-Volk-Bechmann …
In 1665, Margarethe (Roth) Bechmann died and a single-page funereal eulogy was published honoring her – Lessus Et Monumentum Matronæ Rarâ probitate ac pietate ad Miraculum usque … From it we learn that she died on 13th March and was “… brought to her resting bed” (i.e. buried) on 16th March.
In 1666 University of Jena professor Chrsitian Chemnit died and a funeral book was published under the title: Jesus Christus In tribus suis reciprocis propositionibus Logicus, Das ist: Des Herrn Jesu Christi Drey Umbwechslungs-Reden …. which contained contributions by: Johann-Volkmar Bechmann; Georg Adam Struve; Christopher Philip Richter and Friedemann Bechmann (among others):
In 1668 Jacob Friedrich Roth authored a dissertation under the title: Disputatio Theologica De Satisfactione Christi …
In 1671, Memoriale Schwartzburgicum Das ist Schwarzburgisches Denckmahl was published with contributions by such family members as: Jacob Tentzel, Casper Loescher, Heinrich Balthasar Roth and Johann Andreas Roth.
In 1675 when Lauentius Andreas Roth died a funeral book was published titled: Gottes gepriesene Wunder-Güte einem … Laurentii Andreæ Rothens. Some of the contributors included: Heinrich Balthasar Roth; Jacob Friedrich Roth; Christian Gottfried Roth; Johann Andreas Roth; Friedemann Bechmann (son in law); Caspar Löscher (son in law), etc.
In 1676 Ivsta Kospothiana siue Exeqviae Matronae, antiquo genere Zersiano … Catharinae A Kospoth … Friderici à Kospoth … Relictae Viduae …was published with contributions by Heinrich Balthasar Roth; Georg Wolfgang Wedel; Johann Volkman Bechmann; Friedemann Bechmann and Georg Adam Struve:
There were a number of Bechmanns writing around this time including – Fredemann, Johann-Volkmar, and Wilhelm although the exact relationship among these various Bechmanns is not clear.
In 1676 Friedemann Bechmann published: Disputatio Theologica de Certitudine Satisfactionis Christi …
In 1677 Martha Tentzel died and in his role of pastor, Jacob Friedrich Roth published her funeral sermon: Die Erlösete die Jauchtzende von allen Schmertzen und Seufftzen entfernete und …
In 1677, the ‘court preacher’ Andreas Bechmann died on Thursday, 13th April and the funeral sermon book was published titled:
Der gläubigen Christen höchste Ehre/ Aus 1. Cor. 1. v. 30. Bey … Leich-Begängnis/ Des … Andreae Bechmanns Fürstl. Sächs. Wolverdienten Hof-Predigers auff Friedenstein welcher nach außgestandenem langwürigen und beschwerlichen Lager Donnerstags den 13. April des …
Contributors to the above included: Johann Christian Gotter, Andreas Bechmann, Johann Jacob Aviani, and Friedemann Bechmann.
In 1678 Acclamationes Votivae gratulationis ergo Viro Nobilissimo … contained the contributions of: Georg Adam Struve, Heinrich Balthasar Rother, and Lüder Mencke.
In 1680 Institutiones Metaphysicae Continuis Exemplis Inprimis Theologicis … was published which contained a faculty listing at the University of Jena that included: Heinrich Balthasar Roth, Georg Adam Struve, Friedemann Bechmann and Georg Wolfgang Wedel.
In 1681, Collegii Theologici In Academia … was issued by Friedemann Bechmann and includes on it the name of Friedrich Jacob Roth as well as Volkmar Happe.
In 1682 Die gekröhnte Maria Das ist Geistlicher Christen-Kampf: Welchen Die … Frau Maria gebohrne Wolfin … was published which included the following contributions by people all of whom had family connections with each other: Heinrich Balthasar Roth, Fridemann Bechmann, Johann Volkmar Bechmann, Christian Wildvogel, Volkmar Happe III and Georg Wolfgang Wedel.
In 1683 Dissertatio Philosophica De Affectibus was published by Fridemann Bechmann with contributions by Richter and Struve.
In 1700 the book Lebens-Lauff weyland Herrn Georg Heinrich Brückners was published and among the contributors were: Andreas Elias Bechmann; Christian Wildvogel; Hiob Ludolff; Ernest Tentzel; and Burchard Gotthelf Struve all of whom were connected with one another through a series of marriages.
Johann Volkmar Bechmann, born on December 23, 1624 in Fiedelhausen in Thuringia, where his father, Johann Friedrich B., was preacher, attendeded the grammar schools in Weimar and Gotha and then moved to the universities of Jena, Wittenberg, and Helmstädt to devote himself to law. In 1646 he returned from Helmstädt to Jena, on October 4, 1649 he became Doctor of the Rights, soon afterwards Court Advisor cat, 1658 extraordinary professor, then full professor, and the Emperor Leopold appointed him Comes Palatinus. Bechmann died on July 13, 1689. Despite this exemplary career JVB is not to be found on any genealogical databse.
When Anna Elisabeth, the wife of Johann Andreas Bechmann died, a funeral book titled: Der glaubigen Christen Sieg und Triumph unter der Hand ihres Gottes: Bey … Leich-Bestattung Der … Frauen Anna Elisabeth Des … Herrn Joh. Andreae Bechmans … was published that included contributions by such family members as: Johann Christian Gotter, Johann Jacob Aviani, Jacob Weitz, as well as various Bechmann family members.
CASPAR LÖSCHER married Anna Sofia Roth (1649 – 1670). He was Professor at the University of Wittenberg, a theologian, who was an opponent of Pietism; 1656 mm. in Leipzig, January 26, 1660 Magister, August 24, 1663 Bacc. theol., 17.09.1668 Lic. theol.; 1668 superintendent in Sondershausen; 10/19/1674 Dr. theological in Leipzig; 1677 pastor in Erfurt; 1679 superintendent in Zwickau; from 1687 professor of theology, senior pastor of the town church and general superintendent in Wittenberg.
He published frequently and included among these was: Collegium disputatorium anti-Arminianum publicat … ut eidem frequenter copioseque adesse velint, benevole invitat … 1689.
Caspar and Anna Sophia (Roth) Löscher were married on 24th April, 1670 in Gehren, but she died several months later on 19th June, 1670 in Sondershausen. There was thus no time for them to have children and Caspar married secondly Cleophe Salome von Merseburg. From this second marriage there were several sons including: Valentin Ernst; Johann Kaspar; Martin Gotthelf; and seceral daughters including Salome Charitas who married Wolf Albrecht Behrisch and Christina Sophia who married Georg Friedrich Schröer.
Valentin Ernst’s daughter Sophie Catherine Loescher (1716 – 1756) married in June 1746 the royal Great Britain and Kurhannoverischen Council, as well as inspector of the knight academy in Lüneburg Johann Friedrich Jugler (1714 – 1791) and they had a daughter Juliana Friderika Jugler (1747-1756).
Juliana Fredericka Jugler (1747 – 1756)
SOME “MISSING” HAPPE FAMILY MEMBERS:
Dietrich Christian Happe cannot be located on any genealogical database although there is one entry for him at Sondershausen, otherwise nothing else. Concession on gift justice in Rhonstedt Archival call number: 2192 Inventory call number: 5-14-1310 Dating: 1771 – 1843. Contains among others: Dietrich Christian Happe …
FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN HAPPE
Another member of the Happe family who cannot be located on any genealogical database is Friedrich Christian Happe who did however leave an impression of his existence on the bibliographic record, along with Ludovic Wilhelm Avemann in: Id quod Iustus Lipsius de humanioribus studiids iuventuti in aurem … 1687. Since the Happe and Avemann are related to each other, we assume Friedrich Christian is of this Happe family.
In 1679 Friedrich Christian Happe along with Gustav Rudolph Avemann published a funeral book on the death of Johann David Avemann titled: Die seelige Heim-Reise: Trauergedicht auf Johann David Avemann, gest. 23. März 1679. Translated as: The soulful journey home: Funeral poem on Johann David Avemann, died March 23, 1679. It is only from this one bibliographic record that we have any evidence for the existence of Johann David. There are no genealogical databases that show him as having existed. Probably his early death, his not having married, and lacking children contributed to this. Below FCH listed second left:
In 1677, Friedrich Christian Happe along with two members of the Avemann family, Gustav Rudolph and his father Enst Ludwig, contributed to: Casparis Sagittarii Histor. Prof. P. Breviarium Historicum – Successionem Regum ab Originibus … .
When Friedrich Christian Happe died in April 1708 a funeral book was published under the title: Trauer-Rede bey Volckreicher Beerdigung Des … Herrn Friederich Happens, weiland Hochfürstl …
Andreas Zacharias Happe (1638 – 1698) was a Brunswick-Lüneburg court pharmacist / apothecary in Braunschweig. The profession of pharmacist began in the Happe family with Volkmar II’s brother Andreas (1597 – 1649). However, there is no genealogical evidence that Andreas Zacharias is related to Andreas nor to any other member of this Happe family described on this webpage, but it is assumed here that there maybe a connection.
The lack of such evidence is because Andreas Zacharias may not have had children, at least none contributed to his funeral book: Ehren-Gedächtniß Auf den In seinem 61. Jahr seelig-verstorbenen Weyland berühmten und Hoch-Kunsterfahrenen Herrn Andreas Zacharias Happen Hochfürstl. Hof-Apothekershown … . His wife was Susanna Elisabeth Bertentampen.
An earlier Johannes Happe was listed among the schoolboys for whom the musical text book
Gar kurtze und einfeltige anführung Wie man[n] nur schlecht die Musicalischen Elementa erkennen/ und hernach ferner mit der zeit darauff singen …. was composed in 1622.
Translated as: A very short and simple introduction on how to recognize the musical elements without difficulty and then learn to sing afterwards for the schoolboys at Heldrungen Castle from the schoolmaster Andreß Finolten.
Johannes Happe was publicly examined in 1680 resulting in the publication of:
Fundamenta Religionis Naturalis Theoretica cumprimis ex Theologia Aristotelis concinnata. Jena. It included a contribution by Gottlob Christian Happe (right).
Andreas Friedrich Happe (1733–1802) was born in Aschersleben and was a pharmacist and painter of natural history at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He created the beautifully illustrated Botanica pharmaceutica, a widespread reference work for medicinal plants that we often know today as garden and wild flowers. He also drew insects, mollusk shells and the like, partly as illustrations of scientific works.
Unfortunately, there are as yet no genealogical databases that indicate how or whether Andreas Friedrich is connected to the Happe family described here. Given his amazing watercolor drawings of plants, some of which are shown below, it is tempting to claim him as being of this family.
