Adams, Heinrich (d. 1558)

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Capture of Hans Smit, Hendrik Adamsz, Hans Bek, Matthijs Smit, Dileman Snijder, and 7 others, Aachen, 1558. Engraving by Jan Luiken Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror Martyrs Mirror , v. 2, p. 209 of Dutch edition. Scan provided by Mennonite Library <br/> and Archives Mennonite Library and Archives

Heinrich Adams, a Hutterite martyr, was seized on a journey from Moravia to Holland in Aachen, Germany, 9 January 1558, with all his fellow worshipers as he attended a service there. Since he could not be persuaded to recant, he was executed on 22 October 1558, with his brother-in-law Hans Weckh. Adams composed two hymns of fifty-four and twelve stanzas respectively, probably in prison. The longer one contains in its first forty-two stanzas the acrostic, "Heinrich Adam meiner ehelichen Schwester Marien." About him an anonymous poet wrote a song of 105 stanzas, "Fröhlich so will ich heben an," the first sixty stanzas of which are published in the Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichts-Vereins, 1884.

A Hinrich Adam, probably the same person, is the author of four hymns found in Die Lieder der hutterischen Brüder (Scottdale, 1914) 611-619.

Bibliography

Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 588-590. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/contents.htm.

Braght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-gesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, ..., 1685: Part II, 209-212.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 12 f.

Wolkan, Rudolf. Die Lieder der Wiedertäufer. Berlin, 1903. Reprinted Nieuwkoop, B. De Graaf, 1965: 210.


Author(s) Christian Hege
Date Published 1955

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