Adam Theodor Siber

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Adam Theodor Siber (born February 6, 1563 in Grimma ; † January 5, 1616 in Wittenberg ) was a German literary scholar , rhetorician and linguist .

Life

Born as the son of Adam Siber and Anna Fues, he attended the Princely School St. Augustin in his hometown in 1575 , studied at the University of Leipzig in 1581 , continued his studies at the University of Jena and the University of Rostock and returned to the in 1584 as a teacher Princely school back to Grimma.

On the mediation of his brother-in-law, he came to the University of Wittenberg on September 5, 1593 and, as a professor, took on poetics that his brother-in-law Jakob Fuhrmann had previously filled out. Since his poetic lectures were not well received, these were taken over by Friedrich Taubmann in 1595 , with whom he was a lifelong friend. Instead, he followed his brother-in-law in the professorship for Greek language and literature and in 1597 exchanged the professorship in Greek for the professorship in rhetoric, which he held until his death.

Siber had initially developed his father's writings further and published them under the title Gemma gemmarum in Leipzig in 1601. He published a collection of his own numerous writings in 1614 under the title Dialecheon Academicarum volumina , which also contains numerous letters from the Saxon humanist circle .

In addition, in 1600, 1606 and 1612 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in the summer semester of 1604 he was Vice-Rector of the Wittenberg University. It is also worth mentioning the revision of the Greek grammar by Philipp Melanchthon , which he continued with Erasmus Schmidt and Johann Rodenberg after incorrect preparatory work by Taubmann .

Selection of works

In addition to small academic literature, Siber's published work includes the following titles:

  • Passionale, seu cruentis sacrificii Dn. nostri Iesu Christi, Dei aeterni et Mariae Galilaeiae virginis Filii, historia, commentariolo scholastico illustrata . Leipzig 1589. ( online )
  • Antothomanikon, quae sunt preces ad Deum optimum maximum, ut ad meliora conversis veniam nobis tribuat peccatorum, et furores Turcicos ab Ecclesia et Republica nominis sui ergò clementer ac potent defendat et avertat . Wittenberg 1593. ( online )
  • Institutio rhetorica, epistolica, elocutoria; et in M. Tullium Ciceronem elogium . Wittenberg 1608.
  • Gemma Gemmarum sive nomenclatoris Juniani Epitome non Epitome . Wittenberg 1610.
  • Dialecheōn academicarum, quae sunt orationes, praefationes, dissertationes, epistolae et carmina . Wittenberg 1614.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Siber, Adam Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, rhetorician and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1616
Place of death Wittenberg