August Augspurger

August Augspurger (born March 3, 1620 in Prague , † November 14, 1675 in Weißenfels ) was a German poet , translator and epigrammatist of the Baroque period .

Life

Father Caspar Augspurger , a court official, fled to Dresden in 1625 because of the persecution of Protestants in Bohemia , where he worked as a printer or publisher and died in 1636. August Augspurger received private tuition in Dresden and enrolled at the University of Leipzig after the death of his mother in 1637 . Other sources suggest a visit to the University of Wittenberg , at least from 1640 , which also included the friendship established there with Georg Greflinger , whom he later obtained an invitation to the court in Dresden. Here he devoted himself to theological and legal studies. In the same year he led a journey through suffering toParis to learn the French language .

In 1642 he returned to Dresden and took on his first position as court master, which led him to the royal court in Copenhagen. In 1644 he continued his studies with the poetry theorist August Buchner in Wittenberg . From 1645 to 1655 he worked as court master and teacher of noble pupils, especially in Poland . In 1656 Augspurger married as a clerk in Leipzig and in 1659 moved to the office of bailiff in Weißenfels .

Except for a few occasional poems, Augspurger's literary output fell into the first half of the 1640s. His main work, Travelers Clio , a collection of secular poetry, especially shepherd poetry and epigrams in German, was written during his trip to France . Two major translation works in 1642 and 1644 followed.

Works (selection)

"Traveler Clio" Dresden 1642
"Tears Bey dem Creütze Jesu Christi" Dresden 1642.
"The Desperate Traitor Judas" Dresden 1642
"Zwo Sonnete Dem Triumphant Jesu" Dresden 1644
"Amant Oder Arnalte and Lucenda held by his loved one" German translation of Diego de San Pedro's "Tractado de amores de Arnalte from 1491" Dresden 1642
“Schäfferey / Auss Dem Frantzösischen” 1644 German translation of “Antoine Montchrestiens Bergerie” from 1601

Literature (selection)

Bernd Praetorius: August Augpurger . in: Bertelsmann Lexicon German authors: from the Middle Ages to the present . Edited by Walther Killy , Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh, Munich 1994, Volume 1, pp. 252f.

List of works and references

Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "August Augspurger (1620-1675)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 1. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1990, pp. 353–356. ISBN 3-7772-9013-0

Web links

Literature by and about August Augspurger in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about August Augspurger in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

↑ Anthony John Harper: German Secular Song-Books of the Mid-Seventeenth Century An examination of texts in collections of songs published in the German-language area between 1624 and 1660 . Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire 2003, p. 166.
^ Anthony J. Harper: The song writer Georg Greflinger . In: Axel E. Walter (Ed.): Regional cultural space and intellectual communication from humanism to the age of the Internet Festschrift for Klaus Garber . Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York p. 214.

personal data
SURNAME	Augsburg, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	August Augsburger,
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Linguist , poet and epigrammatist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1675
Place of death	Weissenfels

[1] Anthony John Harper: German Secular Song-Books of the Mid-Seventeenth Century An examination of texts in collections of songs published in the German-language area between 1624 and 1660 . Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire 2003, p. 166.

[2] Anthony J. Harper: The song writer Georg Greflinger . In: Axel E. Walter (Ed.): Regional cultural space and intellectual communication from humanism to the age of the Internet Festschrift for Klaus Garber . Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York p. 214.