Christoph Heinrich Amthor

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CH Amthor

Christoph Heinrich Amthor (baptized December 14, 1677 in Stolberg ; † February 21, 1721 in Copenhagen ) was a German lyric poet and translator of the Baroque . He wrote one of the first systematic accounts of economics .

Life

Amthor's father was Joachim Ulrich Amthor (1631–1694), Count of Stolberg's court advisor and chancellor, his mother Anna Maria Parthesius (1654–90). Amthor was raised by an uncle in Rendsburg . He studied law in Kiel , where he succeeded his second father-in-law, Professor Nikolaus Martini, from 1704 to 1713 . Amthor's first marriage was to Anna Görritz, who died in 1702.

His dissertation was sharply attacked by the Orthodox Lutheran clergy in 1706 , and Amthor was accused of atheism . His support for the Danish government led to his appointment as historiographer and president and bailiff of Rendsburg by King Frederick IV of Denmark . Amthor subsequently wrote several pro-Danish tracts such as the historical report of the previous and present state of the knighthood of Schleswig-Holstein in 1714 and the anti- Gottorf de jure and facto proof of the various infidelities founded in 1715 , according to the royal Danish house of the princely Holstein-Gottorpischen suffered so far .

The publication of a volume of court poetry (the royal Oldenburg family tree, glorified in all its branches ) brought Amthor to Copenhagen in 1716 as a judicial councilor . The king's assignment of an apartment in Rosenborg Castle was considered a special token of favor . A story of Christian V of Denmark went unpublished. Amthor published occasionally under the pseudonym Anastasius Sincerus .

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Amthor's most important work is the Project der Oeconomic in the form of a science , published in 1716 , which is one of the first systematic representations of economics in relation to the other sciences. Amthor already knows the concept of political economy , which he defines on the one hand as that of private households and on the other hand as that of cities and countries, which are to be kept in good standing by police regulations . Amthor's positive concept of work is already clear in paragraph one of the work: All people are born to work.

His poetic attempt at some German poems and translations. is a collection of occasional poems, including state, congratulatory, wedding and mourning poems (including the death of his first wife) and spiritual poems. The volume also contains a translation from the 1st and 4th book of the Aeneid in rhymed Alexandrians . Amthor's work was mentioned by his contemporaries Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Jakob Bodmer in their poetics , Georg Philipp Telemann set five of his poems to music.

The literary criticism judged Amthor's poems and translations very harshly: As early as 1768, Christoph Daniel Ebeling called them a remnant of Lohensteinian taste full of pomposity , but comely sublime, everything equally rambling and equally dull . Rochus von Liliencron called them in the 19th century in his article for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie they were miserable works, sometimes of a very unclean kind .

Works

  • Dissertatio politica de habitu superstitonis ad vitam civile . University of Kiel, 1706.
  • De obstagio tractatus juridicus: ad mores Schlesvicensium et Holsatorumpotissimum adornatus. Reuter, Kiel, 1712.
  • Historical report of the previous and present condition of the Schleswig-Hollstein knighthood and their privileges. Collected from certified and partly secret watch customers. Rendsburg, 1714.
  • De jure and facto established proof of the various infidelities, so the royal Danish house suffered from the princely Holstein-god-torpedo. 1715.
  • The royal Oldenburg family tree, glorified in all its branches. Poems, 1716.
  • Project der Oeconomic in the form of a science along with an insignificant concern about how this science can both be pursued in theory and practice with several diligence and benefits. Renger, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1716.
  • Poetic attempt of some German poems and translations. Bosseck, Flensburg 1717; 2nd increased edition. Rendsburg, 1734 (contains translations from the 1st and 4th books of the Aeneid).
  • Collegium Homilecticum De Jure Decori. 1730.

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personal data
SURNAME Amthor, Christoph Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anastasius Sincerus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque poet and economist
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 14, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Harz)
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1721
Place of death Copenhagen