Houchin-Glasgow family webpage:Information about Augustin Ephraim Hermann
Augustin Ephraim Hermann (b. 1580, d. 1621)
Notes for Augustin Ephraim Hermann:
b. Prague, Bohemia
d. Battle of White Mountain, Bohemia.
he was a prosperous merchant and city councilman. Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) was at that time
predominately Protestant and German-speaking. In 1618 a new Holy Roman Emperor came to power who
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threatened to amend the tolerant laws which had allowed the Bohemians freedom of worship. Herman was
supposedly banished for signing a document addressed to the Emperor protesting the changes. The revolt of the
Bohemians against the Emperor touched off the Thirty Years' War. The Imperial forces defeated the rebels at the
Battle of White Mountain (1619), after which Bohemian Protestants were given the choice to convert to
Catholicism, to flee, or to die. Herman died at White Mountain or at a later battle, while his wife and children fled
to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Children of Augustin Ephraim Hermann and Beatrice Von Redel are:
- +Augustine Hermann, b. 1605, d. Sep 1686.