Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf

. Christoph Furer VII of Haimendorf to Wolkersdorf (* 11. June 1663 in Haimendorf ; † 3. May 1732 in Nuremberg ), imperial councilor, councilor of the city of Nuremberg , was a poet in the transitional period of Baroque and Enlightenment . He translated u. a. Works by Pierre Corneille and Torquato Tasso in German, was from 1709 under the pseudonym Lilidor I (the lily bearer, after the coat of arms of the Fürer von Haimendorf family) President of the Pegnese Order of Flowers , a language and literary society with a bucolic background.

life and work

Education and family

Born at Schloss Haimendorf as the offspring of one of the oldest and richest patrician families in Nuremberg, the Fürer von Haimendorf , the son of Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf and Anna Lucia Fürer, née. Öffelholz von Kolberg , Christoph Fürer initially studied at the University of Altdorf , a. a. with Magnus Daniel Omeis . Between 1682 and 1690 he toured France , England and Italy . When he returned to Nuremberg, he was appointed to the city council and later received a teaching position at the Altdorfina . The connection with the patrician daughter Susanna Maria Behaim resulted in three children; his second wife was Maria Barbara Pömer .

Literary activity

In 1680 Christoph Fürer was accepted into the Order of Flowers by the Order President Sigmund von Birken , from that time on he was active in literature. In 1682 the poetry collection Vermischter Gedichte-Kranz appeared in Nuremberg , which brought Christoph Fürer great recognition among his contemporaries. Christian Vesta and Irrdische Flora followed in 1702 (subtitles: Various, partly from foreign languages, translated partly self- invented spiritual and secular German poems by a member of the Pegnesian Flower Society ), in 1726 then Pomona, or collected fruits of loneliness .

Christoph Fürer headed the Flower Order founded by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Johann Klaj from 1709 to 1732, i.e. during a phase of upheaval: with the onset of the (early) Enlightenment, shepherd poetry became more and more out of fashion. Although there were plans to restructure the order into a kind of academy of science based on the English model, these fizzled out. However, there were definitely contacts to scholars from abroad. Christoph Fürer strengthened the company's external image.

Public offices

From 1725, Christoph Fürer held important political offices as the foremost slogan (i.e. the highest city tax collector), imperial schoolteacher , holder of blood jurisdiction and castellan of the imperial castle.

In 1711 he was abducted to Gunzenhausen by the Margrave Wilhelm Friedrich of Ansbach in order to force the warring Nuremberg to release prisoners. But when Fürer, after 72 days of being held hostage, was commissioned by the council of the imperial city with the honorary office, for the coronation of Emperor Charles VI. The margrave had to give in to deliver the imperial regalia in Frankfurt am Main and was later severely punished by the emperor for his behavior.

In 1732 Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf died in Nuremberg at the age of 69.

See also

literature

Web links