NLA WO, VI Hs 13, Nr. 39a — Stammbuch des Johann Helfrich Willemer aus Achim, Eintrag 88

The record

Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv, Abteilung Wolfenbüttel, VI Hs 13, Nr. 39a. Fotokopie des Stammbuchs des Johann Helfrich Willemer aus Achim (1724–1796), 1742–1751; Eintrag 88, pag. 149v; Halle an der Saale, 2 Dezember 1744.

Willemer's album (132 entries, 1742–1751) was compiled during his studies — theology at Helmstedt from 1743, Leipzig from 1745, Göttingen from 1747; he later became pastor at Achim, Grünendeich and Oberndorf. Only the one entry naming a Wesemann is transcribed below.

Entry 88 — Halle an der Saale, 2 December 1744

Latin / German

Si vis amari, ama.

Halae d. 2. Dec. 1744.

His paucis Praenobilissimo nec non Doctissimo Domino Albi huius Possessori Amico suo aestimatissimo commendare voluit debuitque

J. H. Wesemann.

English

If you wish to be loved, love.

Halle, 2 December 1744.

With these few words he wished and was bound to commend himself to the most noble and most learned Lord, owner of this album, his most highly esteemed friend.

J. H. Wesemann.

Notes

> The Arcinsys catalog confirms: “Eintrag 88 (pag 149v): Halle an der Saale 02.12.1744; J. H. Wesemann; Latein.” The date is 1744, not 1774 — the manuscript numeral is easily misread, but 1744 is the only reading consistent with the album's own stated span (1742–1751). > > “Halae” here is Halle an der Saale, the Saxon university town, not the Weserbergland Halle in Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder. The formal academic Latin (“Praenobilissimo nec non Doctissimo Domino”) places this firmly in a student or scholarly milieu. > > This Wesemann carries no GND authority record in the catalog's index — unlike the pastor in Nr. 29, the archive itself could not identify him further. > > No connection to the Linse/Thran milling family is stated. Chapter 10 material, not Chapter 1: an educated, university-context Wesemann at Halle an der Saale, thirty-one years before the Linse family's first documented appearance in the record.