Christoph Luz

Christoph Luz (also: Christophorus Lucius , born November 20, 1596 in Göppingen ; † June 16, 1639 in Calw ) was a preceptor and poet.

Live and act

From 1608 Christoph Luz was a student at the monastery school in Adelberg , from 1611 in Maulbronn and in 1613 came to the Tübingen monastery . Here he passed his exams as the best of his year and one year later became repetitee in Tübingen. In 1621 he worked as a preceptor in Brackenheim for a year . He then became vice rector at the pedagogy (grammar school) in Stuttgart and in 1627 changed to the grammar school in Heilbronn as rector. Luz's consumption of wine was the cause of administrative offenses. On February 11, 1534 he was dismissed from his office. In the summer of the same year he was appointed as a Preceptor to Calw by Dean Johann Valentin Andreae . Here he was a respected teacher.

Luz spoke seven or nine classical and oriental languages, wrote the Greco-Latin poem Vindemiae ubertas in 1630 in 150 verses about the abundant grape harvest of that year. From the year 1634 the Latin elegy in 2084 verses Virgae divinae about the destruction of Calw in the days from 10th to 14th September 1634 has been handed down. Luz was honored as poeta laureatus for his poetic achievements .

Andreae published the Virgae divinae written by Luz in 1643.

family

Luz had nine children with his first wife Anna Maria Kuenmann († 1635). His second wife was the widow Katharina Ruelin, whom he married in 1636. From this marriage two more children were born.

literature

Hellmut J. Gebauer, Hartmut Würfele: Significant women and men (Calw. History of a City), Calw 2005, pp. 28–29, ISBN 978-3-9809615-1-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Virgae Divinae Urbi Calvae Wirtemberg. IV. & III. Oath: Septemb. MDCXXXIV. Inflictae Memoria Ad Posteritatem sancita. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .