Caspar Hennenberger
Illustration — Map of Prussia after Henneberger's map - ca. 1625 Caspar Hennenberger (also Kaspar, Henneberger, Hennenberg, or Henneberg) (1529 – 29 February 1600) was a German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer. Hennenberger was born in a Franconian place given as Erlich (Erlichhausen, or Ehrlichen in Thüringen) and started to study Lutheran divinity at the University of Königsberg in 1550.
Caspar Hennenberger
Caspar Hennenberger (1529–1600). · [Henneberger C.] Kurtze vnd warhafftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen. Item: Der alten Heidenischen Vndeutschen Preussen, sampt jrer Religion/ Göttern/ Bäpsten/ vnd Pfaffen: Aberglauben/ Stenden · Public domain
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- Caspar Hennenberger was born in 1529.
- Died
- Caspar Hennenberger died on 29 February 1600. · Kaliningrad.
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- cartographer · historian
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- University of Königsberg
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- German
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Illustration — Map of Prussia after Henneberger's map - ca. 1625 Caspar Hennenberger (also Kaspar, Henneberger, Hennenberg, or Henneberg) (1529 – 29 February 1600) was a German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer. Hennenberger was born in a Franconian place given as Erlich (Erlichhausen, or Ehrlichen in Thüringen) and started to study Lutheran divinity at the University of Königsberg in 1550.
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In 1554 he began to work at the congregation of Georgenau and in Domnau. Probably in 1561 he moved to Mühlhausen, where he worked as a Lutheran Pastor for the next 29 years. In 1590 Hennenberger became the Pastor of the Large Hospital at Königsberg-Löbenicht, where he died in 1600. He was buried in the hospital's Church.
Caspar Hennenberger studied at University of Königsberg. The recorded working language is German. Work by Caspar Hennenberger is recorded in the collections of Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
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Caspar Hennenberger died at Kaliningrad.
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- 1.Neue Preußische Provinzial-Blätter, Band 6, Königsberg i. Pr. 1848, S. 371. Online
- 2.ADB-Biographie 1880
- 3.NDB-Biographie 1969
- 4.Georg Erler: Die Matrikel der Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg i. Pr. Band 1. Die Immatrikulationen von 1544–1656. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, S. 11
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