Bartholomäus Ringwaldt
Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (born November 28, 1532 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † approx. 1599 in Langenfeld near Zielenzig; today Długoszyn near Sulęcin , Poland) was a didactic poet and Lutheran theologian.
life and work
Ringwaldt was pastor of Langenfeld in Neumark in Brandenburg from 1578 , where he died between 1598 and 1600. Among the more well-known among his sacred songs (new edition, Halle 1858) are Herr Jesu Christ, du highest good, and It is certainly time to recreate the sequence Dies irae of the Latin funeral mass. In his didactic poem The pure truth (first Erfurt 1585) is shown "how a secular and spiritual warrior should behave in his profession". Another didactic poem by Ringwaldt, the Christian warning of the faithful Eckart (Frankfurt (Oder), 1590), contains as a report of a vision the “description of the condition in heaven and the hells, including all the opportunity, joy and bliss of the godly, also oh and woe of the damned ”. The Speculum mundi, a fine comedy, depicts how badly faithful preachers who speak the truth are behaved in a number of places (Frankfurt (Oder), 1592) can be described as a dramatic picture of morals of the time.
Johann Sebastian Bach composed a choir cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du Höchstes Gut, BWV 113 , in 1724 and used individual stanzas of the song in other cantatas.
expenditure
- Federica Masiero (ed.): Plagium. Comoedia by Daniel Cramer (1593) with the German translation by Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (1597). Weidler, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89693-547-2
literature
- Johannes Bolte : Ringwaldt, Bartholomäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 640-644.
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Bartholomäus Ringwaldt and Benjamin Schmolck . Wroclaw 1833.
- Erich Krafft: The Speculum mundi of Bartholomäus Ringwaldt: linguistically, text-critically, literary-historical and stylistically examined ; (German Studies); Breslau, 1915; Reprint: Hildesheim Georg Olms, 1977
- Matthias Wolfes : Ringwaldt, Barthomäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 637 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ringwaldt, Bartholomäus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | didactic poet and Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1532 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1599 |
| Place of death | Langenfeld (Neumark) |