Šimon Proxenus

Simon Wirth also Šimon Proxenus ze Sudetu (around * 1532 in České Budějovice ; † December 7, 1575 in Prague ) was a Bohemian Lutheran humanist , poet and legal scholar. His Latinized name was Simon Proxenus a Sudetis .

Live and act

Proxenus worked for some time as a town clerk in his hometown . Then, after a stopover at the Alma Mater Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder , he moved to the University of Wittenberg where he a. a. studied with Philipp Melanchthon . He was registered there in October 1553 under the name "Simon Wirt Budwitzensis". He finished his studies with a master's degree and then went to the University of Prague around 1556 , where he began his academic work. Proxenus was among the poets around Jan Hodějovský z Hodějova . He accompanied Count Julius Šlik to the Netherlands and France . In 1554 he became a professor of law at Prague University. For his academic work he was ennobled in 1557 and received the suffix ze Sudetu "from the Sudetenland". Since 1567 he held the office of a board of directors of the appellate court. He was also in the service of Rudolf II , for example, as a speaker in the election of the new Polish King Heinrich III. part. The vacant throne was determined after the death of Sigismund II August through an elective monarchy procedure . In 1573 he took part in the Bohemian state parliament as a member of Ladislaus Popel von Lobkowitz's entourage . His promising career ended in 1575 with his untimely death. He was a member of Sodalitas litteraria in Prague.

Works (selection)

Ducum et Regum Bohemiae series ad Carolum quartum descripta carmine. (1556)
Elegia de excubiis angelicis. (1555)
Allegoria petrae deserti percussae a Moise, et fundentis largissimos fontes aquarum, tradita from Apostolo Paulo 1. Corinth: 10. (1554)
Eidyllion de natali Domini nostri Iesi Christi, ad integerrimum et clarissimum virum, Dominum Conradum Aff, inclytae reipublicae Francfordensis ad Viadrum Senatorem. (1554)

literature

Rukověť humanistického básnictví v Čechách a na Moravě. Díl 4., N-Ř; edited by Antonín Truhlář, Karel Hrdina, Josef Hejnic. Praha Academia, Prague 1973

Web links

Wikisource: Šimon Proxenus - Sources and full texts (Czech)

Proxenus, Simon (- 1576) [1] on CERL Thesaurus

Individual evidence

^ William Hammer (ed.): Sources and research on the history of the Reformation. Melanchthon research in the course of the centuries, Vol. 3, Gütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3579048902 , p. 654, footnote
^ Line Popel von Lobkowitz
↑ Matyáš Kalina z Jathensteinu: News about Bohemian writers and scholars whose life descriptions have not yet been edited. As materials for a lexicon of Bohemian writers and scholars, Vol. 1, Gottlieb Haase, 1818, p. 37 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Proxenus, Šimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Simon Wirt Budwitzensis; Magistro Simoni Proxeno Buduicensi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian humanist, poet, lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1532
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ceske Budejovice
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1575
Place of death	Prague

[1] William Hammer (ed.): Sources and research on the history of the Reformation. Melanchthon research in the course of the centuries, Vol. 3, Gütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3579048902 , p. 654, footnote

[2] Line Popel von Lobkowitz

[3] Matyáš Kalina z Jathensteinu: News about Bohemian writers and scholars whose life descriptions have not yet been edited. As materials for a lexicon of Bohemian writers and scholars, Vol. 1, Gottlieb Haase, 1818, p. 37 f.