Caspar von Teutleben

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Caspar von Teutleben , modernized Kaspar von Teutleben , (born March 27, 1576 in Laucha , † February 11, 1629 in Wenigensomern ) was a German poet and court master .

Life

Caspar von Teutleben was the son of Johann Ernst von Teutleben and Brigitte von Köttritz . He enjoyed the lessons from private tutors until he enrolled at the University of Jena . He studied there until 1597. In the same year he went on an extensive grand tour to Italy , where he studied at the universities of Padua , Florence and Siena , among others .

At the turn of the year 1603/04 he returned to Germany as court master and a few months later he was appointed chamberlain in Saxony-Weimar . On April 14, 1607 he married Agnes Magdalena von Tangel . From 1608 he acted as tutor of the future dukes Johann Ernst the Younger of Saxe-Weimar and Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar . With these two he was to found the fruitful society about nine years later .

Between 1611 and 1613 Teutleben also worked as a court judge in Jena . From 1613 to 1614 he accompanied Johann Ernst the Younger from Saxe-Weimar on his cavalier tour through France , Great Britain and the Netherlands .

On September 15, 1616, Teutleben was appointed court marshal in Weimar . Four years later he became the Privy Councilor in Coburg . At a funeral service on the occasion of the death of Duchess Dorothea Maria von Sachsen-Weimar on August 24, 1617, Teutleben suggested the establishment of an organization based on the model of the Accademia della Crusca . The founding of the Fruit Bringing Society was decided on the spot and the brother of the deceased, Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen, was appointed as her first head, as he served until his death in 1650 .

Imprese Caspars von Teutleben

The Koethener society book lists the initiator Teutleben with his nickname the flour rich under number 1. Here you can also find his motto Here you can find it and his emblem A sack full of wheat grain / to be ground / pouring in / and falling under the flour out of the bag . Here, too, the reference to the Italian model becomes clear.

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