Achatius Cureus

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Achatius Cureus, also Achatius Curaeus or Achatius Scherer (* around 1531 in Marienburg ; † July 16, 1594 Osterwyk near Danzig ) was a German author and neo-Latin poet.

Life

After attending the city school in his hometown, he moved to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1548, supported by a grant from the City Council . In 1553 he moved to the University of Wittenberg and went to Marienburg as a teacher. In 1558 he was appointed rector of the Academic Gymnasium Danzig and received a preaching position there. During the phase of the theological controversy between Philippists and Gnesiolutherans , Cureus took a Calvinist position and therefore had to go to a pastor in Osterwyk in 1590, where he stayed until the end of his life.

Cureus wrote casual poems using ancient literature. In these he developed a moral education mandate that reflects Reformation humanism in a poetic teaching poem. Among these educational writings, the “Carmen de discentium gradibus” published in Danzig in 1559 is particularly exemplary. He also described the plague, which often raged in Danzig, but interpreted it as a God-given event.

Works

  • Threnodia, qua deplorantur miseriae tempore grassantis pestis Dantisci. Danzig 1564.
  • Praecepta Moralia ex oratione Isocratis ad Demonicum… versu reddita. Frankfurt / Oder 1557.
  • Historia conversi Pauli, carmine reddita. Koenigsberg 1562.
  • Mimensis Xenophontis Herculis, continenens descriptionem virtutis et voluptatis. Danzig 1565.
  • Dialogus de Podagra. Danzig 1566.
  • Argumentum de fabricatione, destructione atque discessu Concordiae. Danzig 1567.
  • Erotema in libellum Aristotelis de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Danzig 1567.
  • Elegiae duae… una Antidotum adversus mortis terrores: Altera de Adae et Evae. Danzig 1569.
  • Diadema regium omnibus viris Principibus ac magistratum gerentibus commodorum. Danzig 1570.

literature

  • Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language. (15 volumes) Gütersloh; Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl. 1988–1991 (CD-ROM Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Vol. 2 p. 488

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personal data
SURNAME Cureus, Achatius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curaeus, Achatius; Scherer, Achatius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and neo-Latin poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1531
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienburg
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1594
Place of death Osterwyk near Danzig