Caspar Hennenberger (also Kaspar, Henneberger, Hennenberg, or Henneberg) (1529 – 29 February 1600) was a German

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

pastor A pastor (abbreviated to "Ps","Pr", "Pstr.", "Ptr." or "Psa" (both singular), or "Ps" (plural)) is the leader of a Christianity, Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutherani ...

, historian and cartographer. Hennenberger was born in a

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n place given as Erlich ( Erlichhausen, or Ehrlichen in Thüringen ) and started to study Lutheran divinity at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

in 1550. In 1554 he began to work at the congregation of Georgenau and in Domnau. Probably in 1561 he moved to

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a town in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's Central Germany (geography)#Geographical centre, geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen ...

, where he worked as a Lutheran Pastor for the next 29 years. With the patronage of Duke

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, and support by Prussian mathematicians like Nicolaus Neodomus, Hennenberger published the first detailed map of

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in 1576, the book "''Kurze und wahrhaftige Beschreibung des Landes zu Preussen''" (short and truthful description of the land Prussia) in 1584 and "''Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen''" (explanation of the larger Prussian maps) in 1594. In 1590 Hennenberger became the Pastor of the Large Hospital at

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, where he died in 1600. He was buried in the hospital's Church.

External links

"Preusserland" map by Hennenberger

References

*Horst Schulz, "Der Kreis Pr. Eylau", Verden/Aller 1983, p. 685 1529 births 1600 deaths German cartographers 16th-century German historians 16th-century German Lutheran clergy Clergy from Thuringia People from the Duchy of Prussia University of Königsberg alumni German male non-fiction writers Writers from Thuringia {{Germany-historian-stub