Aegidius Albertinus

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Aegidius Albertinus, copper engraving 1630.

Aegidius Albertinus (* 1560 in Deventer , Netherlands; † March 9, 1620 in Munich ) was an influential writer and translator of the Counter Reformation .

Life

Albertinus comes from the Netherlands, but neither the date of his birth nor his career is documented. Only the extensive knowledge of the language of this man, who arrived at the Munich court in 1593 at the age of thirty-three as a made man from Spain , suggests long-term studies abroad. As early as 1597 he was allowed to call himself court council secretary, and from 1601 he also took over the office of court librarian Duke Maximilians .

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His enormous oeuvre includes 52 works. His writings, which appeared mainly between 1594 and 1618 and were reprinted until the 18th century, are mainly translations, adaptations or compilations of Latin, Italian, French, but mainly Spanish texts, including nine works by Antonio de Guevara alone . His original German style is more reminiscent of authors of the previous century than of contemporary poets. He represents the interests of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and advocates the persecution of witches . In his rather independent works, including the literary court criticism of Lucifer's Kingdom and Seelengejäidt , he combines anecdotes and curiosities from natural, world or salvation history to make allegorical statements or falls back on the encyclopedic orders of medieval sums and specula . His most important contribution to the development of German literature is without a doubt the translation of the picaresque novel La vida del Pícaro Guzmán de Alfarache (1599) written by Mateo Alemán . The translation, published in 1615 under the title Der Landstörtzer Gusman von Alfarche , has demonstrably influenced many German baroque poets, including Abraham a Sancta Clara , Johann Beer , Grimmelshausen , Moscherosch , Christian Reuter and Daniel Speer . In his translation of the Spanish picaresque novel, Aegidius Albertinus also commented on the hygienic conditions in the hospitals of his time and described their desolate condition in aptly flowery terms.

Works (selection)

  • Lucifer's kingdom and soul jealousy: or hunted for fools: divided into 8 parts . - Augspurg: N. Hainrich / Aperger, 1617. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Christ's Kingdom and Seelengejaidt , ed. Rainulf A. Stelzmann. Bern 1983
  • De Conviviis ... Von Gastereyen , ed. Herbert Walz. Bern 1983
  • Brain Grinder , ed. Lawrence Stilo Larsen. Stuttgart 1977
  • Institutiones vitae aulicae or Hofschul, ed. Erika Alma Metzger. Bern 1978
  • The Landstörtzer Gusman von Alfarache , Henricus, Munich 1615 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ); ed. Jürgen Mayer. Hildesheim 1975
  • Lucifer's Kingdom and Seelengejaidt , ed. Rochus of Liliencron . Berlin 1884
  • Contempt for court life and praise for country life , ed. Christoph Schweitzer. Bern 1987
  • The world tournament venue . Leipzig 1975
  • The world Tummel- and Schaw-Platz… . Krüger, Augsburg a. a. 1612 and more often (translation of the Reductorium morale by Petrus Berchorius )

Literature (selection)

  • Tilmann Altenberg: Aegidius Albertinus, The Landstörtzer Gusman von Alfarche . In: La novela picaresca: Concepto genérico y evolución del género (siglos XVI y XVII) . Eds. Klaus Meyer-Minnemann & Sabine Schlickers. Universidad de Navarra / Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2008, pp. 263–307.
  • Werner Beck: The beginnings of the German picaresque novel. Zurich 1957
  • Anne Dreesbach: Aegidius Albertinus . In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter (Ed.): Monachia . Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich 2005, p. 57, ISBN 3-88645-156-9 ,
  • Guillaume van Gemert: The works of Aegidius Albertinus . Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 90-302-1351-5 .
  • Friedrich Prinz: They take bread from the poor . Munich 1985.
  • Herbert Walz: The moralist in the service of the court . Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1984, ISBN 3-8204-7995-3
  • Wolfgang U. Eckart : Medical criticism in some novels of the Baroque period - Albertinus, Grimmelshausen, Lesage, Ettner, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (ed.): Health professions and sick people in the 17th and 18th centuries. The source and research situation , Münstersche contributions to the history and theory of medicine No. 18, Burgverlag Tecklenburg 1982, to Aegidius Albertinus pp. 52–56, ISBN 3-922506-03-8
  • Richard Alewyn:  Albertinus, Aegidius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 143 ( digitized version ).

List of works and references

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alewyn, Richard, Albertinus, Aegidius , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), p. 143 online version
  2. ↑ Helmuth Kiesel: At Hof, at Höll: Studies on literary court criticism from Sebastian Brant to Friedrich Schiller , Tübingen 1979
  3. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : History of Medicine , Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1st edition 1990, p. 166. ISBN 3-540-52845-8 .
  4. ↑ Guillaume van Gemert: The works of Aegidius Albertinus (1560 - 1620): a contribution to the research of the German-language literature of the Catholic reform movement in Bavaria around 1600 and its sources , Amsterdam: APA, Holland Univ. Press, 1979 Table of Contents .

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personal data
SURNAME Albertinus, Aegidius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1620
Place of death Munich