Christoph Friedrich Kiene
Christoph Friedrich Kiene (born March 12, 1655 in Lübeck ; died after 1721) was a German lawyer and poet.
Life
After attending high school in Lübeck, Kiene studied politics and law at the University of Rostock from 1675 and in Leipzig from 1677 . After traveling through Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France and England, he settled as a lawyer in his native city of Lübeck. In 1693 he became a legal advisor in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , where he also died.
His best-known work is the Poetic Ancillary Lessons , published in 1680, which , in addition to a number of sacred and secular poems, contains eight poetic letters from heroes, i.e. fictional letters of mythical or biblical figures based on neo-Latin and Italian models, in which Eve writes to Adam in Paradise, Joseph , among others to Potiphar's wife or the wife of Kandaules to Gyges .
Works
- Rostock fire heat, publicly praised at the Rostock high school. Rostock 1677, digitized . 3rd ed. 1710 under the title: Detailed description of the cruel and terrible fiery heat which arose through the very highest fate in the year 1677. August 11th in the Uhralten See- and Hansee-Stadt Rostock, which caused it to happen that in kurtzer Eyl over 800 large houses without the living cellar have been completely ruined and destroyed. Digitized .
- Poetic secondary lessons. Frankfurt a. M. & Leipzig 1680, 2nd edition 1681.
- Poema sacrum, sive de credendorum liber primus. Lübeck 1703 (liber secundus ibid. 1710), digitized .
literature
- Heinrich Dörrie : The heroic letter. Berlin 1968, pp. 188 f., 310 f ..
- Carl Schröder : Mecklenburg and the Mecklenburgers in beautiful literature . Berlin 1909, pp. 52-55.
- Ingeborg Springer-Strand: Kiene, Christoph Friedrich. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 6, p. 401 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiene, Christoph Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kienius, Christophorus Fridericus (Latinized form of name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1721 |