Balthasar Venator junior

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Balthasar Venator junior (Latinized from Jäger ), who lived in the second half of the 17th century, was a neo-Latin poet and satirist .

Life

The dates of life are not known. Venator was the younger of the two sons of the neo-Latin poet and satirist Balthasar Venator from his marriage to Katharina Frankengrüner in Zweibrücken in 1635 . He probably learned his education from his Calvinist father in Meisenheim , where the family lived. In 1661 he received a scholarship. He later served as a lawyer and secretary to the envoy to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg and as a court advisor in the Electoral Palatinate .

Works

Outside of this professional activity, which certainly had its merits, Venator is considered an entertaining Neo-Latin poet whose works are praised for their wit. From 1669 to 1673 a seven-volume Ominosa rerum series was published anonymously and without a place of printing , which caricatures the people and negotiations of the Reichstag in a non-offensive manner and which is attributed to him and Georg Becht. Zedler praises them as “nice and ingenious satirical writings” (see web links). Historians occasionally refer to the works for background information on the Reichstag negotiations. The sixth volume, published in 1673, also contains - in anonymized form - a new edition of the two works on Zweibrücken, Epistola de calamitatibus Ducatus Bipontini (1637) and Civitatis Bipontinae quaerimonia (1649) by his father Balthasar Venator, which relentlessly detail torture and cases of cannibalism in the Principality of Palatinate - Describing Zweibrücken (this edition is missing in the work edition of his father's writings) The new edition was possible because the circumstances of the Thirty Years' War were repeated in terrifying form in the Dutch War . Again, as with the first editions, these are documents of psychological warfare and journalistic influence.

literature

  • Georg Christian Joannis : Miscella historiae Palatinae cum maxime vero Bipontinae inservientia. Frankfurt am Main 1725.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Balthasar Venator: Gesammelte Schriften , 2 vols., Georg Burkard and Johannes Schöndorf (eds.), Heidelberg 2001, Bibliotheca Neolatina; 9, ISBN 3-934877-02-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Venator, Balthasar junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION neo-Latin poet and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH between 1635 and 1661
DATE OF DEATH 17th century or 18th century