Andreas Scultetus
Andreas Scultetus (actually Andreas Scholz or Scholtz ; * around 1622/23 in Bunzlau ; † April 25, 1647 in Troppau ) was a Silesian Jesuit and late mystical poet.
Life
The Protestant shoemaker's son Scultetus fled the Counter-Reformation to Liegnitz and attended St. Elisabeth High School in Breslau from 1639 to 1642 , where he was friends with Angelus Silesius and Andreas Tscherning . He converted to Catholicism around 1643. In 1644 he stayed in Brno , after which he was a teacher at the Jesuit college in Opava .
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In his “Gesang” “Peace Praise and War Suffering” (1641) he vividly described the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and conjured up hope for peace. His epic poem "Blutschwitzendtodesringender Jesus" from 1643 is the first New High German Messiah poem. In 1642, the collection of poems “Easter Triumph Trumpet” based on the mystical ideas of Jakob Boehme was published .
Scultetus' work is influenced by Martin Opitz . Linguistic idiosyncrasies, learned allusions and Silesian provincialisms made his understanding difficult even then. It was quickly forgotten and only rediscovered by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , who after extensive research published his poems in 1771. Lessing valued the extraordinary visual power of his words, with which he celebrates the resurrection of Christ from all of nature, for example in his Easter poem:
“To a singing tournament of the winged army, / When everyone appears, the nightingale sends, / The organ, so lives, the thousandfold sound / In Deliens Losier . Here a hundred prongs whiz , / Here the masterpiece will rise and fall, / Applied all at once. The mob of birds hums / on their mouths angry: Most of it falls silent. The lark asks merely its Tiretirelieren / The joints artist afterwards to practice / And schweifet trotziglich until at cloud port / on all kinds of fashion with loud parties continue [...] "
literature
- Hermann Markgraf: Scultetus, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 496 f.
- Jörg-Ulrich Fechner: Scultetus, Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 99 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Scultetus in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann : Scheffler, Johannes (Johannes Angelus Silesius) (1624-1677) . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE), Vol. 30, pp. 83-87, here p. 84.
- ↑ Breslau 1642.
- ↑ Quoted from GE Lessing: Gedichte von Andreas Scultetus (1769), in: Werke , Vol. 5, Munich 1973, p. 535.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scultetus, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scholz, Andreas (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German late mystical poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1622 or 1623 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bunzlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1647 |
| Place of death | Troppau |