Conrad Lautenbach
Conrad Lautenbach also Konrad or Kunz Lautenbach (* 1534 in Motzlar ; † April 18, 1595 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German theologian, pastor, librarian, translator and writer.
Life
After attending schools in Eisenach and Nordhausen , he spent several years traveling as a traveling student through Germany, including to Erfurt , Frankfurt am Main, Mainz and Heidelberg . In March 1553 he came to Strasbourg , in three years passed all classes of the grammar school and in 1556 began studying theology and philosophy at the academy. His teachers included Johannes Sturm , Hieronymus Zanchi , Ludwig Rabus and above all Johannes Marbach .
On Marbach's recommendation he became pastor in Mundolsheim in 1557 and in Strasbourg in 1558. 1562 called in Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg as pastor in Neuweiler .
In 1564, on the advice of Marbach, he changed to Hunaweiler in Upper Alsace in Württemberg . A number of literary works were created there, including a translation by Josephus Flavius .
1580 appointed in Elector Ludwig VI. as a librarian to Heidelberg . After his death, he returned to Strasbourg in 1585 because he rejected the change from the Lutheran to the Reformed creed that was forced under administrator Johann Kasimir .
Just two months later he became a preacher at the Frankfurt Katharinenkirche . In 1591 he established the measurement relations , which he published under the pseudonym Jacobus Francus . These pamphlets with news from all over the world appeared at the Frankfurt Book Fair and are considered the forerunners of modern newspapers. Lautenbach was the first to sign documents from the Ministry of Preachers as a " senior ", but the City Council of Frankfurt forbade him on February 2, 1593 as an "unusual innovation".
He wrote a number of translations from Latin and poetic works, including as Thrasibulus Torrentinus Mutislariensis the book of women's costumes illustrated by Jost Amman (1586).
Works
- Gynaeceum sive theatrum mulierum dtsch. In the woman's room we are told of all sorts of beautiful clothes and traditional costumes of women […] entirely adorned with new figures. Franckfurt am Main, Sigmund Feyrabends, 1586 (women's costume book) illustrated by Jost Amman .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 446 .
- Jakob Franck : Lautenbach, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 71 f.
- Lautenbach, Conrad. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 16, Leipzig 1737, column 1197.
- Melchior Adam: Vitae Germanorum Theologorum qui superiori seculo Ecclesiam Christi (lat.)
Web links
- Literature by and about Conrad Lautenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Conrad Lautenbach in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Telschow, The old Frankfurt Church. Law and organization of the former Evangelical Church in Frankfurt , Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-9221-7900-2 , p. 18
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lautenbach, Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lautenbach, Kunz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1534 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Motzlar |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1595 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |