Andreas Adersbach

Andreas Adersbach (also Barchedas ; born August 1, 1610 in Königsberg ; died June 24, 1660 there ) was a German diplomat , poet and member of the Königsberg poet circle .

Life

Adersbach came from a respected Königsberg patrician family. In the house of his father, the businessman and electoral councilor Michael Adersbach (1569–1640), he enjoyed a careful upbringing and grew up in a cultivated environment. After attending the old town Latin school , he enrolled on March 20, 1624 at the Königsberg University , where he studied law. From 1629 he toured Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and England under the guidance and guidance of the poet Robert Roberthin . After his return he continued his father's career by becoming like him the “forest factor” of the King of Poland. From 1643 he became the Brandenburg Legation Secretary in Warsaw , 1645 agent and 1650 resident of the Great Elector at the Polish court. He was also appointed a councilor by the Duke of Courland .

He was known to Simon Dach and a member of the Königsberg poets and musicians circle around Heinrich Albert and Roberthin. His poems and translations in the succession of Opitz appeared partly under the pseudonym Barchedas . Some of his poems were set to music by Albert ( arias ) and Johann Stobäus ( pillars of the dead ).

His brother was the electoral Brandenburg councilor Johann Ernst Adersbach (1613–1632).

Works

• Trewer's spouse to Mr. Simon Dachen and Junfr. Reginen Pohlin Wedding Honor Day. Koenigsberg 1641.
• Love testament between Lidius and Lilla […]. Koenigsberg 1644.

expenditure

• Leopold Herrmann Fischer (ed.): Poems of the Königsberg poet circle. Hall 1883, Register S. XI
• Albert Fischer : The German Protestant hymn of the 17th century. Completed and ed. by Wilhelm Tümpel. Vol. 3. Hildesheim 1964, pp. 99-102.

literature

• Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer:  Adersbach, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 85.
• Kurt Forstreuter:  Adersbach, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 66 ( digitized version ).
• Alfred Kelletat: Simon Dach and the Königsberg poet circle. Stuttgart 1986.
• Ulrich Maché: Adersbach, Andreas. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 1988, vol. 1, p. 33.
• Alexander Reifferscheid (Ed.): Letters from Georg Michael Lingelheim, Matthias Berneggers and their friends. Heilbronn 1889.
• Old Prussian biography. Ed. On behalf of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research. Königsb. u. Marburg 1941 ff., Vol. 1, p. 4.