Daniel from Czepko

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Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld, pen drawing from the manuscript R. 3100 of the Wroclaw City Library

Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld (born September 23, 1605 in Koischwitz , Duchy of Liegnitz ; † September 8, 1660 in Wohlau , Duchy of Wohlau ) was a German poet and playwright .

Life

The son of a Lutheran pastor attended the Latin school in Schweidnitz until 1623 and then studied medicine and law, first at the University of Leipzig , later at the University of Strasbourg , where he established relationships with Matthias Bernegger . Then he was in the service of the Margrave of Baden and was a lawyer at the High Court in Speyer . In 1629 he had to leave his estate in Schweidnitz because of the persecution of Protestants and lived as a private tutor with Baron Johann Georg Czigan on his Dobroslawitz estate near Cosel in Upper Silesia . Thanks to his marriage to a wealthy woman from Schweidnitz, he was able to return to Schweidnitz in 1636. In 1656 he was ennobled. From 1656 until his death in 1660 he was ducal counselor to Duke Christian , who had resided in Ohlau since 1653 .

Czepko's most important works are the idyllic rural didactic poem Corydon and Phyllis , which comprises 9222 verses, and which he considered to be his main work, as well as the collection of epistemic poems Sexcenta Monodisticha Sapientium , which is considered to be the forerunner of the Cherubin Wanderer by Angelus Silesius . In this collection of epigrams, created between 1640 and 1647, Czepko reproduces his religious and natural philosophical views , which were influenced by Paracelsus and the mysticism of Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehmes . For this reason, most of Czepko's writings fell under censorship and remained unprinted during his lifetime.

Works (selection)

  • Daniel von Czepko: Seven stars of royal penance / that is / The seven penance psalms / Of the king and prophet David. Tschorn, Brieg 1671. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
  • Daniel von Czepko: Triumph Bogen: which Jhr Röm: Kayserl: also to Hungarn vnd Böhaimb Königl: Maytt: Ferdinand the Third / always several of the rich / the pious and just prince and father of the German lands / under the protection and umbrella of the Wolgeborn lords / Mr. Georg Ludwigen / Mr. von Stahremberg [et] c. From the most devoted devotion and obedient humility / To the blissful entrance of the M. DC. XLI. Set the year and sanctify. Baumann et al. Jacob, Breslau 1641. Digitized and full text in the German text archive

Work edition

  • Daniel Czepko: Complete Works . With the collaboration of Ulrich Seelbach ed. by Hans-Gert Roloff and Marian Szyrocki . 6 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1980–1998

literature

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Daniel Czepko von Reigersfeld (1605–1660) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 2. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9027-0 , pp. 983–995 (list of works and literature)
  • Hugo Föllmi: Czepko and Scheffler . Zurich 1968
  • David George Halsted: Poetry and Politics in the Silesian Baroque . Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1991
  • Annemarie Meier: Daniel von Czepko as a spiritual poet . Bonn 1975
  • Minoru Nambara, Daniel Czepko. In: The idea of ​​absolute nothing in German mysticism and its counterparts in Buddhism, Archive for Conceptual History 6 (1960), Bonn, pp. 143–277, here: pp. 261–269
  • Hermann Palm:  Czepko and Reigersfeld, Daniel v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 671 f.
  • Ursula Riemschneider: The appearance of the Unio mystica in the poems of Daniel von Czepkos and Johann Scheffler . Dissertation, University of Strasbourg 1943
  • Virginia Caroll Sease: A Study of Daniel from Czepko's "Sexcenta Monodisticha Sapientium" . Dissertation, University of Southern California 1969
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzlaff-Eggebert:  Czepko and Reigersfeld, Daniel von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 457 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Daniel von Czepko  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 376.
personal data
SURNAME Czepko, Daniel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czepko, Daniel; Czepko von Reigersfeld, Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Koischwitz , Duchy of Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1660
Place of death Wohlau , Duchy of Wohlau