Caspar Ziegler

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Caspar Ziegler, copper engraving by Jacob von Sandrart
Memorial plaque on the courtyard building at Schloßstraße 1 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Caspar Ziegler (born September 15, 1621 in Leipzig , † April 17, 1690 in Wittenberg ) was a German lawyer, poet and composer.

Life

Ziegler was born the son of the Leipzig legal scholar and proconsul to the city councilor Caspar Ziegler and his wife Anna (née Walter, widow of Johann Kürsten) at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War . When he was three years old, he was seriously injured falling off a spiral staircase. However, he recovered from his injuries. Although his parents suffered from the military attacks during the war and were robbed, they enabled him to study at the University of Leipzig .

In 1638 Caspar Ziegler became a baccalaureus of philosophy and thus acquired the right to give lectures himself. At the urging of his father, he moved to the University of Wittenberg in January 1641 , where he attended lectures by August Buchner , Johannes Scharf , Johann Sperling and Nikolaus Pompejus . For financial reasons he returned to Leipzig after a year and a half. In the meantime, he had acquired extensive knowledge in self-study, so that in 1643 he was able to secure the highest philosophical degree at a university, that of a master’s degree .

Monument to Caspar Ziegler in the Wittenberg Castle Church

Since his parents had planned for him to study theology, he also attended lectures by Hieronymus Kronmeyer and Johann Hülsemann . He had a very good relationship with the latter in particular. In addition to his philosophical lectures, especially on history, he occasionally turned to legal subjects and became an informator for young nobles. With his theological studies he struggled rather badly than right, until his father finally had some understanding and no longer insisted on studying theology. In November 1652 he began to study law, which he successfully completed under the direction of Polycarp Wirth and Andreas Eckholt . In January 1655 he was nominated for the highest legal degree. After he had passed both exams and was admitted to the public disputation , he did his doctorate in law with five other candidates at the University of Jena .

In the same year he was appointed professor at the University of Wittenberg , which brought him to the court court and the Schöppenstuhl at the same time . Here he rose to Professor Digesti infortiate in 1657, Professor Dignesti veteris in 1658 and Professor of the Codex in 1659. Due to the rapid death of his predecessors, he rose from year to year to higher and higher positions. In 1662 he was given the ordinate of the Faculty of Law, in 1662 he was employed as a councilor at the court of appeal and in 1664 he took over a seat at the Wittenberg consistory . In 1661 he took over the rectorate of the Wittenberg Academy and restored the university library, which had been devastated during the Thirty Years' War, to an orderly condition.

After a broken leg, he developed a fever and died from it. His body was buried on April 24, 1690 in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Act

Today Ziegler is mainly known for his small handwriting Von den Madrigalen , to which a letter from his “brother-in-law” Heinrich Schütz provided the preface. The writing sprang from Ziegler's love for poetry and music and was intended to secure its entry into German literature for the genre, which was particularly cultivated in Italy. Ziegler formulated guidelines for the scope, length of the verse and rhyme schemes of the madrigal , the attraction of which, however, lies precisely in the freedom of form. The emphasis he placed on the epigrammatic character of the madrigal made it a preferred lyrical genre of gallant poets, and by pointing out its musical usability and its proximity to the recitative , Ziegler had a decisive influence on the development of the new cantata form .

In De Poetis Germanicis, Erdmann Neumeister primarily praised the epigrammatist Ziegler, but the madrigals added as "examples" are poetically insignificant. Some of Ziegler's sacred songs were included in Saxon hymn books, some of which have persisted into our century. His song I am happy in you was processed by Johann Sebastian Bach in a Christmas cantata of the same name ( BWV 133 ) and in another cantata . He maintained an extensive correspondence with famous contemporaries and published around 80 mainly canonical and constitutional writings.

family

His ancestors included nobles who had sought and found their fortune in Persia . Ziegler was married three times. His first marriage was on February 17, 1663 with the widow of Wilhelm Leyser I. Catharina (née Bose; * December 15, 1615 in Leipzig; † June 30, 1676 in Wittenberg). The 13-year marriage remained childless. His second marriage was on August 19, 1678, with Maria Elisabeth Klaubarth († May 12, 1682 in Wittenberg) the widow of the mayor of Naumburg Andreas Frauendorff. The daughter Johanna Regina Ziegler (born June 29, 1679 in Wittenberg) is known from this marriage. He concluded his third marriage on April 14, 1684 in Wittenberg with Johanna Barbara, the daughter of the lawyer in Dresden Georg Börner. The latter marriage did not have any children either.

Works

  • Jesus or twenty elegies about birth, suffering, etc. Resurrection of our Lord. Leipzig 1648
  • Ad noctes atticas Auli Gelli de solis et Iunae defectibus. Leipzig 1648
  • Christmas seal, in: Four learned poets poems about the gracious birth of Jesus Christ. Oil 1653
  • From the madrigals ... Leipzig 1653, Wittenberg 1685 (digitized) , Frankfurt am Main 1971
  • Notae et animadversiones Wittenberg 1666
  • In Hugonis Grotii De Iure Belli ac pacis libros ... notae et animadversiones subitariae 1666
  • Jus canonicum ad JP Lencelotti Institutiones enucleatum. Wittenberg 1669
  • Diatribe canonica de dote ecclesiae.
  • De juribus majestatis. Wittenberg 1668
  • Rebulistica sive de artibus rabulariis.
  • De poenis. Wittenberg 1674
  • The rabulist or tongue thresher now placed in the bright light of day: That is: Most of the description of bad and bad advocates, As they inventions with their handle, feint, and all sorts of art, thereby losing some money, good, honor and all that is his bring, and practice thousands of other bits and pieces, are pretty much ground down; Translated from Latin into German as faithfully as possible. Wittenberg 1688

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian von Bar, Dirk Effertz, Peter Dopffel: German international private law in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1995, p. 561.
  2. ↑ The phrase "brother-in-law" used by Heinrich Schütz in relation to Ziegler refers to the fact that Benjamin Schütz, Heinrich Schütz's brother, the stepdaughter of the lawyer Caspar Ziegler the Elder in 1629. Ä., Caspar's father, married. Rothmund, Elisabeth: Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672). Cultural patriotism and German secular vocal music. "For recording the music, also increasing our nation's fame". Berne 2004, p. 141.

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personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1690
Place of death Wittenberg