Caspar Cunradi

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Caspar Cunradi , also: Caspar Cunrad , Casparus Cunradus etc. (born October 9, 1571 in Breslau ; † November 15, 1633 ibid) was a German physician, historian and poet.

Life

Cunradi enrolled at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in 1591 , moved to the University of Wittenberg in 1594 and then to the University of Leipzig , where he received the academic degree of master's degree in 1595. After completing his studies, he returned to his homeland and was initially a tutor in Breslau.

After receiving the Poet's Wreath in 1601 , he resumed his studies and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Basel in 1604 . Back in Breslau he settled down as a doctor and took over the position of city ​​physician from Daniel Bucretius . In 1607 he married the hymn poet Christiana Cunradina (1591-1625). The couple had ten children. The eldest son Christian Cunrad (1608–1671) was a doctor and poet; the second eldest son Johann Henrich Cunrad (1612–1685) was a Silesian lawyer and historian.

As the city physicist of Breslau, Cunradi died in 1633 of the plague that was rampant in Breslau.

Act

Cunradi is one of the representatives of Silesian late humanism, who, influenced by the work of Johann Crato von Krafftheim , promoted the young group of poets around Martin Opitz . Occasional Latin poems and poetic additions to works by friends come from his estate. The first work by Opitz from 1616 Strenarum Libellus should be mentioned here.

He also wrote analog and epigrams , even didactic poems and Horace - paraphrases , tirelessly collected poems of friends he partially also in 1616 Pratum Evangelicum issued. In Latin poems and German verses, 15 poets deal with the Gospels, the Sundays and feast days that the church year has to offer.

This is followed by a collection of poems by 1000 scholars, which he published in the Theatrum Symbolicum from 1606 to 1631. His literary calendar "Prosopographia melica", which appeared in 3 parts from 1615 to 1631, is regarded as his outstanding work. In it he lists 3000 distiches on scholars and other personalities with dates of birth and death as well as occupation.

Works

  • Quinta (Septima, Octava) Anagrammatismorum decas . Lignitz 1600-05
  • Anagrammatismorum centuria . Oil 1606
  • Delitiae poetarum Germanorum . published by Janus Gruter, Frankfurt / Main 1612
  • Ara Chritiana . 1616
  • Ara manalis Christianae Tilesiae Conjugi meritissimae posita . Oil 1626
  • Strena natalitia . Oil 1631

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Pressel :  Cunradina, Christiana . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 644.
  2. ^ A b Ruth Engelhardt: Cunrad, Christiana, geb. Tilesius . In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, pp. 69–70 ISBN 3-525-50323-7 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Klaus Garber: Cunrad, Christian . In: Killy Literature Lexicon , Volume 2, Boa – Den, de Gruyter, pp. 518–519 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Klaus Garber: Cunrad, Johann Heinrich . In: Killy Literature Lexicon , Volume 2, Boa – Den, de Gruyter, p. 519 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Cunradi, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cunrad, Caspar; Cunradus, Casparus; Conradus, Casparus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, historian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1633
Place of death Wroclaw