Johannes Caselius

Letter from Caselius from Rostock to Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg in Schwerin, April / May 1589 (copy 17th century)

Johannes Caselius , also Johannes Kessel, Johannes Chesselius, Ioannes Caselius, Johannes Bracht, Johannes Bractus (born May 18, 1533 in Göttingen ; † April 9, 1613 in Helmstedt ) was a German humanist , lawyer and philologist .

Life

Johannes Caselius was the son of the superintendent Matthias Bracht von Kessel . After attending school in Gandersheim , Göttingen and Nordhausen , he studied from 1551 at the University of Wittenberg Leucorea with Philipp Melanchthon and then at the University of Leipzig with Joachim Camerarius the Elder .

After his studies he stayed in Italy from 1560 and was appointed professor of eloquence at the University of Rostock in 1563 by Duke Johann Albrecht I of Mecklenburg . Duke Johann also provided him with the financial means for research trips to Italy 1560–1563 and 1565–1568. 1566 he was at the University of Pisa to the doctor of jurisprudence doctorate .

In 1589 Caselius became a professor at the University of Helmstedt . There he taught philosophy, rhetoric and ethics. As a defender of the natural knowledge of God and a representative of humanistic-philosophical studies, Caselius, together with Cornelius Martini, had to defend himself against the attacks of the Gnesio-Lutheran Daniel Hofmann . This has not harmed his fame as an excellent expert on ancient literature and as a philologist. His most important pupil Georg Calixt continued his endeavors towards tolerant Protestantism and humanistic education .

Fonts

Historia nativitatis Domini , 1552
Carmen in natalem Christi , Wittenberg 1554
Christian Vermanung , 1556
Carminum Graecorum et Latinorum centuria prima , Göttingen 1608
Oratio dominica et latine et graece reddita , Helmstedt 1610
Carmina gnomica graeca et latina , ed. Heinrich Hudemann . Hamburg 1624
(Conrad Horne ed.): Operum pars I. Scripta eius politica complectens. Frankfurt 1633 ( digitized copy) from the collection of François-Joseph Terrasse Desbillons , then Grand Ducal Gymnasium Library Mannheim , today in the University Library Mannheim
Opus epistolirum Js. Caselii ed. Justus v. Dransfeld Frankfurt 1687;
Epistola de Jo. Caselii erga bonas literas meritis ejusque lucubrationum editione , ed. Jakob Burckhard . Wolfenbüttel 1707.
36 letters (Rostock April and May 1589) . Edited by Johannes Claussen. School program , Altona 1900; P. 3 ff.
39 letters by the philologist Johannes Caselius written at Rostock in 1589 as a continuation of the 36 letters by the same author published in the 1900 annual report . Edited by Johannes Claussen. Altona 1904, p. 3 ff. ( Digitized version )
Youth poems. In selection and with an introduction, ed. v. Friedrich Koldewey , Progr. Braunschweig 1901
Paranet. Poems. In selection and with note, ed. v. Friedrich Koldewey. Brunswick 1905
A German sermon, ed. v. Friedrich Koldewey, in: ARG 1, 1903-04, p. 337

literature

Johannes Caselius (1533–1613), a Helmstedt scholar . In: Wolfenbütteler Notes on Book History , Vol. 22, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997. ISSN 0341-2253 . Pp. 101-121.
Scholarly Philology vs. Theology: Johannes Caselius in dispute with the Helmstedt theologians . In: Herbert Jaumann : The European Republic of Scholars in the Age of Confessionalism . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04516-7 . Pp. 155-181.
Michael Behnen: Dominion and religion in the teachings of Lipsius and Althusius . In: Emilio Bonfatti, Giuseppe Duso, Merio Scattola (eds.): Political terms and historical context in the "Politica methodice digesta" by Johannes Althusius (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Vol. 100), Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-447 -04706-2 . Pp. 165-184.
Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1988-1991, Volume 2, p. 385 (CD-ROM Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ).
Johann Caselius . In: Johann Bernhard Krey: The Rostock humanists . Rostock 1817, pp. 103-107.
Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : About the Caselier in Meklenburg . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Vol. 19 (1854), pp. 3–64. Digitized version of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library
Richard Newald: Caselius, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 164 ( digitized version ).
Heinrich Julius Kämmel : Caselius, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 40-43.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : CASELIUS, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 947. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
Henke, Paul Tschackert : Caselius, Johannes . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 3, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1897, pp. 735-737.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Georg Krüger: The pastors in the country of Stargard since the Reformation . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , vol. 69 (1904), pp. 1–270, here p. 52.

personal data
SURNAME	Caselius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1533
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1613
Place of death	Helmstedt

[1] Georg Krüger: The pastors in the country of Stargard since the Reformation . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , vol. 69 (1904), pp. 1–270, here p. 52.