Caspar Augspurger

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Caspar Augspurger (born July 16, 1576 in Nördlingen ; † March 30, 1636 in Dresden ) was a German entrepreneur who mainly worked as a bookseller.

Life

The native of Swabia from Augsburg initially settled in Prague in the Kingdom of Bohemia as an entrepreneur, where he mainly traded in books. He experienced the fall of the window in Prague and fled from Prague because of the persecution of Protestants in Bohemia in 1625 to Dresden, where he acquired citizenship and worked as a printer, publisher and bookseller.

Caspar Augspruger died on March 30, 1636 in Dresden and was buried on April 4 in the Frauenkirche there. The funeral sermon given by the deacon and Magister Johann Lucius (1590-1652) from Dresden on this occasion appeared in print at Friedrich Lankisch's heirs in Leipzig. Numerous friends and companions of Caspar Augspurger wrote mourning poems, which have been added as an appendix to this pamphlet.

family

He left the widow Anna Maria nee Rose and the following four children: Augustinus and August Augspurger, who were students at the time of his death. August Augspurger (1620–1675) was a well-known poet , translator and epigrammatist of the Baroque period . He had also written a poem on the occasion of his father's death, which is attached to the said printed funeral sermon. The other two children were Anna Maria and Esther Elisabeth Augspurger, who were minors at the time of their father's death.

literature

  • The blissful lust to die / From the words of S. Pauli / Phillip. 1st vers. 23. I want to part and be with Christ. : Bey Christian funeral of […] Caspar Augspurgers / bookseller and citizen in Dreßden / Who deposited the 30th March […] of the 1636th year […] / and […] was then buried on the 3rd April […] on earth . Leipzig, Lanckisch, 1636.
  • 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.

Individual evidence

  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, ISBN 0754606422 , p. 166 (Engl.)