Caspar Clee

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Caspar Clee (also: Kaspar Klee, Cle ; * 1553 in Wehlau ; † September 14, 1602 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German philologist , ethnologist and historian .

Life

The son of the mayor Christoph Clee and his wife Anna Moller from Silesia started studying at the University of Wittenberg in July 1578 . Here Albert Lemeier held lectures in ethics and logic , Andreas Franckenberger in history , Nikolaus Todaeus in Greek , Valentin Espich in physics , Andreas Schato and Valentinus Otho in mathematics as lecturers at the university. Guided by these, he acquired under the deanery of Bartholomäus Tilemann there on September 9, 1581 the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences.

After returning to his East Prussian homeland, he had been the rector of the city school in his hometown for two years from 1582. In 1584 he became vice rector of the education department in Stettin , in 1589 archipagogue at the education department affiliated with the University of Königsberg. There he was assigned the first inspection of the alumni in 1593. In 1594 he was appointed professor of the Greek language at the University of Königsberg and in 1601 he became professor of ethics and history there. One of his works is a disputation de duplici contentione ex lib. I. Hesiodi and an Eligia nuptialis Mart. Nagelio scripta (Königsberg 1596) known. He had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the 1601 summer semester .

Clee died in Koenigsberg in 1602. His body was buried in the professorial vault of the Königsberg Cathedral.

family

Clee had married on May 25, 1590 with Katharina (* 1569; † May 6, 1590), the daughter of the citizen of the old town Lorenz Heilsberger and his wife Gertrud Berwald.

  • Caspar Clee (~ March 5, 1591)
  • Anna Clee (~ October 24, 1592)
  • Son NN. († at birth)
  • Katharina Clee (June 6, 1594 - August 1602)
  • Lorenz Clee (~ April 29, 1595)
  • Daughter NN. († at birth)
  • Christoph Clee (born November 20, 1599; † April 22, 1602)

literature

  • Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot publishing house, Leipzig, 1903, pp. 19, 71
  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, pp. 368, 387
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Verlag Hartung, Königsberg, 1886, p. 123, 206,
  • J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, p. 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 455-470.
  2. ↑ Dean's Office Book of the Philosophical Faculty UWB, 2, UA-Halle Title XXXXV, 1, 2, page 295
  3. ↑ Adolf Boetticher: The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Bernhard Teichert, Königsberg, 1897, p. 347
personal data
SURNAME Clee, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klee, Kaspar; Cle, Caspar; Clee, Casparus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, ethnologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1553
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehlau
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1602
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)