Christian Keimann

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Christian-Keimann-Strasse in Zittau

Christian Keimann , also Christian Keymann (born February 27, 1607 in Deutsch-Pankraz , Bohemia; † January 13, 1662 in Zittau ), was a German pedagogue, poet and evangelical hymn writer .

Life

Christian Keimann was born in 1607 as the son of a pastor in Grottau and Ullersdorf Zacharias Keimann in Pankraz . In the course of the Counter Reformation , the Keimann family had to flee from Bohemia to Zittau. He studied at the University of Wittenberg from 1627 and, with the support of Erasmus Schmidt and August Buchner , obtained the academic degree of master's degree in 1634. Keimann then became vice rector on April 28, 1634 and rector of the grammar school in Zittau (Upper Lusatia) on April 25, 1638. He ran the high school during the tribulation of the Thirty Years War . Keimann was awarded the poet's crown in 1651 honored and was an important educator and author of school books and school dramas.

On January 13, 1662, he died of a stroke after a long suffering.

A street in Zittau is named after Christian Keimann.

family

The father Zacharias Keimann was born in Bohemia around 1579. He was pastor in Pankraz until 1617 and then in Ullersdorf until he turned to Zittau in 1628. He died on September 3, 1633 and was buried in Zittau on September 5, 1633.
The mother Anna Ludwig was born in Bohemia around 1583 and was buried in Zittau on May 19, 1643.
Christian married Anna Dorothea Winzinger in 1638. She was baptized on February 14, 1623 in Zittau and died there on January 22, 1664. Her father was Andreas Winziger (* 1600; † 1636), a wine teller in Zittau.
Christian had eight children with Anna Dorothea. Son Christian Friedrich Keimann (* 1650; † 1684) died as a student. The second son Johann Christian (* 1654; † 1654) was only 5 days old.
The 6 daughters were:

  • Anna Maria Keimann (* 1639)
  • Anna Dorothea Keimann (* 1640; † 1669), married Samuel Schaffhirt (* 1633; † 1719) in 1660, paper maker in Obergurig, Cottbus and Zittau
  • Anna Rosina Keimann (* 1642)
  • Anna Christina Keimann (* 1644; † 1668), married in 1667 Friedrich Arnst (* 1642; † 1709), bookseller, church mayor and city governor
  • Anna Magaretha Keimann (* 1646) married Geissler, whose daughter Anna Dorothea Geissler, shortly before her death in 1688, donated Keimann's memorial speech, which the first three teachers of the high school in Zittau held every year in his memory. After his death, she married the sub-rector Magister Joachim Curtii (* 1646 † 1709).
  • Anna Justina Keimann (* 1649 † 1649)

Publications

  • Tabulae declinatorium ..., apud Graecos, Leipzig 1649, 1683
  • Enchiridion grammaticum latinum, Jena 1649
  • Small memory bible - Mnemosyne sacra, Görlitz 1656, Leipzig 1652
  • Micae evangelicae, Zittau 1655, Stettin 1687
  • Four plays, Zittau 1657 included: Samuel after Johann Förster, 1646; Susanna after Frischlin, 1648; Young Tobias, Freiberg 1641; The newly-bored Jesus revealed to the shepherds and wise men, Görlitz 1646, reprint 1936
  • Historia Iohannis Baptistae heroico metro comprehensa. Wittenberg 1630
  • Rhetorica ... versibus in clusa hexametris. 1639, Leipzig 1659
  • Compendium logices 1639, Leipzig 1652
  • Arithmctica practica. Görlitz 1639 (combined with logic to: Paedia scholastica compendiosa. Görlitz 1648).
  • Arithmetic booklet. Leipzig 1641

His hymns have been used many times by Johann Sebastian Bach :

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Friedrich : Album of the high school in Zittau. Zittau, 1886.
personal data
SURNAME Keimann, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keyman, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH German Pankraz
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1662
Place of death Zittau