Andreas Franckenberger

Andreas Franckenberger also: Frankenberger (* 1536 in Meiningen ; † January 17, 1590 in Wittenberg ) was a German historian and rhetorician.

Life

Nothing is known about Franckenberger's origins and first course of education. He matriculated on July 23, 1555 at the University of Wittenberg , where he became a student of Philipp Melanchthon . After he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on August 23, 1565, he was appointed rector of the Danzig particular school (grammar school) in 1567 . Here he made a name for himself as the author of several works. Therefore, it was decided at the Wittenberg University on October 18, 1579 to transfer the professorship of rhetoric to rhetoric. In addition, he received the chair of history on June 20, 1580, which task he performed alone from 1588. Franckenberger stood in the tradition of Melanchthon, whose historical work was part of his curriculum. In the winter semester of 1581 he was also dean of the philosophical faculty.

Three sons are known from his marriage to Barbara Böckelmann, who comes from Danzig. Andreas Franckenberger (* Danzig), Georg Franckenberger (* December 7, 1581 in Wittenberg) and the later Professor Reinhold Franckenberger .

Works

• De His Propositionibvs Disputabit Deo iuuante Andreas Franckenberger Rector Gymnasij [...]. Danzig 1567
• Orati. II de arte poetica, et de Alexandro Severo. Danzig 1568
• Constitutio nova gymnasii Dantiscani ad nobilem Dominum Constantinum Ferberum, Burggrauium ac Proconsulem inclytae Reipub. Dantiscanae. et prudentissimum virum Dominum Augrustinum Wilnerum Senatorem in eadem Republica, Praefectos Gymnasij scripta. Danzig 1568,
• Norma Enarrandi, Ac Penitius inscipiendi duos grauissimos Oratores, Demosthenem, & huius æmulum, MT Ciceronem: in qua controuersia nostro seculo a viris magnis agitata discutitur, vna cum commentatione luculenta in orationem Ciceronis pro lege Manilia. Danzig 1570
• Disputatio De Lectione Veterum Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Contra Iesuitas, qui Patres dignitate cum consensu Bibliorum exaequare conantur, instituta publice duabus vicibus in Gymnasio Dantiscano ... Wittenberg 1577 ( Online )
• Comment. De dignitate et amplitudine Hist. Propheticae, cui in fine subjectae sunt Dispp. III contra Jesuitas, Gedani habitae. Wittenberg
• De amplitudine et excellenti historiae Propheticae dignitate. Wittenberg 1580 ( online )
• Orationes de comparanda dicendi facultate, de enarrando Domosthene, Isocrate, Cicerone & causis aliis, quae studiosis optimarum artium lectu frugiferae ac fructuosae futurae sunt. Wittenberg 1580
• Institutionum antiquitatis et historiarum pars prima. Wittenberg 1586
• Oratio in honorem Domini Philippi Melanthonis de magnitudine rerum diuinarum & politicarum, quae in Chronico eius continentur, Scripta et publicè habita VVitebergae A M. ANDREA FRANCKENBERGERO, Antiquitatis & Histo-riarum Professore. Wittenberg 1589

literature

• Franckenberger, Andreas. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 9, Leipzig 1735, column 1703.
• Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, 1787, Vol. 2, Sp. 1211,
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .