Balthasar Stolberg

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Balthasar Stolberg (also Stollberg ; born February 1, 1640 in Mittweida , † October 15, 1684 in Wittenberg ) was a German philologist.

Life

Born as the son of Council Chamberlain David Stolberg and his wife Justina, daughter of the mayor of Mittweida Balthasar Römer, he came from an old Mittweida senatorial family. His grandfather Balthasar Stolberg and his great-grandfather Wolff Stolberg were mayors of the city. When he was eight years old, his father died and he went to Dresden with his mother in 1654 . From there he came on February 26, 1655 to the electoral high school St. Augustin in Grimma, where after three years on February 15, 1658 he had acquired the skills to attend a university.

He chose the University of Wittenberg , where he entered the register on March 30, 1658 under the rectorate of Michael Sennert . First he completed a basic philosophical course according to the rules of the time and developed a special fondness for the Greek language. On April 26, 1660, he acquired the then highest academic degree, the philosophical faculty was awarded to, and got under the Office of the Dean of Constantine ZIEGRA the master's degree awarded. In 1661 he completed his habilitation, gave private lectures and also held disputations.

He drew attention to himself, so that Jakob Weller hired him as a tutor for his two sons. After almost three years, he was appointed adjunct on March 24, 1664 at the philosophical faculty of Wittenberg, where he also attended theological lectures and, with the help of Johann Erich Ostermann, was able to request a substitute from the elector in 1666 . In 1667 he received the promise that he would be considered in a future successor to a corresponding professorship. After Ostermann's death in 1668 he took over his professorship for the Greek language.

An excellent philologist, he drew many students into his classrooms and his work was praised in the highest academic circles. Most of it dealt with the New Testament . His excercise “De soloecismis et barbarismis graecae Novi Foederis dictioni falso tributis” ties in with a literary dispute that Joachim Jungius had triggered in 1637 with a disputation on the Quaestio approved by him, whether the New Testament was bursting with barbarism. Jungius himself believed that there was something un-Greek in it. The theological and philosophical faculties in Wittenberg sided with his opponents.

In 1638 they accused him of having committed a blasphemy and tried to explain the New Testament as free from barbarism and solocism for dogmatic reasons . Stolberg chose a better and safer way to save the New Testament from these accusations. He did not claim that everything was written in a purely Greek or Attic style, but he showed that there was still a great difference between the Soloecisms and barbarisms and the so-called lingua vulgaris, and that in this generally understandable and then common dialect the New Testament be written.

Stolberg also took part in the administration of the Wittenberg University, in 1668, 1674 and 1679 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1678 was Rector of the Wittenberg University. In addition, he had represented the Wittenberg Leucorea as a deputy at the state parliaments in Dresden in 1670 and 1681. However, the annoyance with the administration of the rectorate affected his health. His left side suffered pain and the body began to gradually deteriorate with tumors, asthma and, as a result of lack of exercise, dropsy .

After a hemorrhage on October 14th, Stolberg died the following night at 3 a.m. On October 19, 1684 he was buried in the town cemetery.

In 1670 he married Dorothea, the daughter of the Dresden mayor Paul Zincke . The marriage remained childless. His widow married Theodor Dassov , who after his death brought out some of his editions.

Selection of works

  • Theomerata philologica in Contemtum Gr. NT, Wittenberg 1661
  • De Magis ad Matth. II, Wittenberg 1663, 1673
  • Excercitationes de soloecismis & barbarismis N. Testamento falso tributis, Wittenberg 1685, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1688

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personal data
SURNAME Stolberg, Balthasar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stollberg, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittweida
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1684
Place of death Wittenberg