Andreas Presson

Andreas Presson (also Andreas Bresson ; born November 22, 1637 in Volkach ; † July 17, 1701 in Bamberg ) was a poet and translator . He worked in particular on the works of Herman Hugo . He also worked as a lawyer in the service of the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg.

Life

Andreas Presson was born on November 22nd, 1637 in the Franconian city ​​of Volkach. He was baptized on the following day, November 23rd, when his parents were able to win Andreas Wucher as godfather. Presson came from a family who immigrated to Volkach in 1604 from what is now Italian-speaking Switzerland . The grandfather Andreas Presson the elder came from Salazana and received citizenship in Volkach. He quickly rose to become a respected citizen and also held several city offices.

Kaspar Presson, the fourth son of the elder Andreas, was born in 1615 and inherited his father's council membership. He also received the title of "Lord". He married Margaretha Geiger from Gerolzhofen , who became the mother of the younger Andreas. After his wife's death, Kaspar Presson married Katharina Fries in 1638. He died on July 2, 1641, so the boy was raised by his stepmother .

The young Andreas Presson attended the Latin school in his hometown and learned there from the rector Christian Queller. The city was still threatened by the Thirty Years War . So until 1648 changing armies quartered in the city. In 1649 Presson was confirmed. After graduating from Latin school, he began studying at the University of Würzburg , before enrolling in the Bamberg Academy on November 23, 1651 as "Andreas Presson, Volcacensis, poeta, pauper", a poor student of poetics .

He completed his studies in 1656 with a master's degree . A year later he attended ethics courses before he probably received private courses in law, as there was no law faculty in Bamberg . Presson finished his studies in 1659. On May 12, 1659, he married Margaretha Eyring in Bamberg, who died in 1663. He then took Ursula Emmer, the daughter of the church musician from St. Martin, as his wife. Presson took over from 1666 the title of director musicae (music director) from his father-in-law.

In 1662 Andreas Presson joined the Cäcilienbruderschaft in the Bartholomäuskirche in Volkach. It was founded to promote church music. In 1673 a first translation of the Pia desideria by the Belgian Jesuit Herman Hugo appeared. In 1675 he became a princely maleficent writer and in 1678 a chancellery syndic at the prince-bishop's court in Bamberg. Further translations of religious literature from the 17th century followed by 1677.

After the death of his second wife in 1677, Andreas Presson remained a widower for some time. On November 24, 1682 he married Catharina Pfriem, with whom he had seven children. In the 1680s Presson received the title of Crowned Poet from the Bamberg Jesuit Academy . The Academy had received the privilege of carrying out this honor from the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At that time the poet lived near the Elisabeth Hospital in the area of ​​the Upper Parish in Bamberg.

The last years of Andreas Presson's life were overshadowed by legal disputes with the Ammon community of heirs and their lawyer Johann Georg Erhard. On October 14, 1698, Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn made a personal statement about Presson and admitted that he had been wronged during the trial. He used the lawyer Presson in negotiations with Countess Maria Eleonore von Dernbach about Wiesentheid . Presson died on July 17, 1701 and was buried on July 19.

Works and translations (selection)

• Andreas Presson: Bellum intestinum hominis Christianized: à pientissimo quodam Carthusiano ... conscriptum ... . Bamberg 1687.
• Andreas Presson: Threnodia So The wedded Kayserliche Hochstifft Babenberg on the premature and quick fatal step: Weyland the Most Revered Prince and Lord Marquard Sebastian Bischoffen zu Bamberg of the Holy Roman Empire Prince [et] c. Glorious and mildest of Christ in Andencken: As his Hochfürstl. Grace of Freytag on St. Dionysij day 9th October ... have approved this temporality; and then. The high princely corpse was buried in its crypt with ordinary ceremonies in the cathedral on Monday, October 26th . Bamberg 1693.

• after Herman Hugo : The lamentation of the penitent soul or the so-called Pia Desideria . Bamberg 1672.
• According to Herman Hugo: The lamentation of the penitent soul or the so-called Pia Desideria: the well-known Trutz nightingale's daughter, or the desire of the holy soul: That is: the second part of Pia Desideria . Bamberg 1676.
• according to Herman Hugo: The lamenting of the penitent soul or the so-called Pia Desideria: the lovely Trutz Nachtigall Enckel or the sigh of the amorous soul. That is: Third and last part Pia Desideria . Bamberg 1677.
• according to Philipp Kisel: RP Philippi Kiselii E Societate Iesv Seven-Fold-Bloody Show-Game of the Seven-Streams Spiritual Nili-River: That is: Seven Passion sermons from the grace-flowing and painful Leyden and dying of our One Redeemer and Heyl-Acquirer Jesus Christ: Seven-fold bloody spectacle of the seven-stream spiritual Nili river . Bamberg 1679.
• According to Herman Hugo: Nucleus Piorum Desideriorum, that is: the core of godly desires . Bamberg 1697.
• According to Jakob Merlo-Horstius: Compendivm Deß Catholischen alone blissful faith: Paradisus animae christianae: consisting of different beautiful hymns, So Uff most gracious desire of His Elector: Graces from Mäintz Mr. Johann Philippsen ... drawn from the bed book Paradysus animae Christianae called, and has been translated into acceptable German verse: Compendium Deß Catholischen alone bliss-making faith . Bamberg 1697.

literature

• Anton Jäcklein: M. Andreas Presson, imitator of the Trutz nightingale. Knowledge Supplement to the annual report of the new grammar school in Bamberg . Bamberg 1892.
• Johann Ludwig Klarmann: The Steigerwald in the past. A contribution to Franconian cultural studies . Gerolzhofen ² 1909.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig: The Steigerwald in the past . P. 213.
2. ^ Jäcklein, Anton: M. Andreas Presson . P. 9.
3. ^ Jäcklein, Anton: M. Andreas Presson . P. 19.
4. ^ Jäcklein, Anton: M. Andreas Presson . P. 24.