Daniel Hermann (humanist)

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Daniel Hermann (* around 1543 in Neidenburg ; † December 29, 1601 in Riga ) was a German humanist and poet.

Life

Born as the son of the mayor Andreas Hermann, he attended school in his hometown, moved to the University of Königsberg , moved to the University of Strasbourg , returned to Königsberg (Prussia) and then went back to Strasbourg . From there he moved to the University of Basel , where, after a short stay at the University of Ingolstadt , he completed his humanistic studies at the University of Wittenberg . After a geological study trip, he went to Vienna , where he worked as a secretary at the imperial court.

In 1578 he went to Danzig , where he represented the interests of the city, accompanied Stephan Báthory during the Livonian War, moved to Riga and married there. From here went to the service of the city of Riga. After a few years, however, he withdrew from his service there to become literary until he died. As a later humanist, Hermann was also active as a Latin poet. His widow Ursula (née Kröger) later published his works, which testify to his talent for representation and demonstrate light but not in-depth comprehension with a national sense. His family register with entries from 1567 to 1587 has been preserved in the Lund University Library.

In 1895 its epitaph was found again during renovation work in the Riga Cathedral .

Works (selection)

This chronological overview of Daniel Hermann's works has been compiled on the basis of information from Gadebusch , Lilienthal, and Recke and Napiersky . All later overviews of works apparently follow von Recke and Napiersky .

  • Epithalamion illustri principi ac domino, D. Gotthardo in Livonia Churlandiae et Semigalliae duci, SRM Polonorum supremo terrarum Livoniae gubernatori et locum tenenti, sponso ac domino suo clementissimo: et illustrissimae principi ac dominae, dominae Annae familia, natae ex illustrium sponsor, etc. ac dominae suae clementissimae scriptum a Daniele Hermanno Neydenburgense, Borusso. Regiomonti Borussiae in officina Ioannis Daubmanni 1566.
  • Carmen de vita litterata. Regiomonti Borussiae 1575. [reprinted in: Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614-1615, tom. I, under the expanded title "De vita literata sive scholastica"]
  • Danielis Hermanni Borussi Stephaneis moschovita, sive de occasione, causis, initiis et progressibus belli, a serenissimo potentissimoque Polonorum rege magno duce Lithuaniae etc. Stephano primo contra Ioannem Basilium, Magnum Moschorum ducem, gesti et hoste represso fractione deduced aducti aequas pacis conditiones felicriiter duo priores. Excusae Gedani a Iacobo Rhodo 1582. [reprinted in: Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614-1615, tom. III]
  • De rana et lacerta succino prussiaco insitis Danielis Hermanni discursus philosophicus; ex quo occasio sumi potest de causis salis fodinarum Cracoviensium naturalibus ratiocinandi. Cracoviae 1583. [3. Edition: Rigae 1600; also reprinted in: Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614-1615, tom. III]
  • Panegyris in coronationem serenissimi principis ac domini Sigismundi tertii Regis Poloniae et designati Sueciae, magni ducis Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Kyouiae, Volhiniae, Podlachiae, Livoniae etc. principis. Scripta a Daniele Hermanno Prusso. Cracoviae 1588. [reprinted in: Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614-1615, tom. II]
  • De Marte cum Musis in nova Academia Samosciana conjunctio, carmen. Rigae Livonum exc. Nicol. Mollinus 1594.
  • Gratiarum actio ad Deum omnipotentem pro omnibus corporis atque animae beneficiis. Rigae 1595. [Latin and German]
  • De monstro partu, the XVIII. Aug. 1595 in districtu Ascheradensi Livoniae ultradunensis in lucem edito; et de rebus, quae praeter naturae ordinem fiunt, discursus ethicus, physicus, historicus. Autore Daniele Hermanno Borusso, Rigae in officina Nicolai Mollini 1596. [reprinted in: Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614-1615, tom. III]
  • Joanni Samoscio, Regni Poloniae Cancellario et exercituum regni praefecto generali, Trophaeum. Cracoviae typis Matthiae Wirzbietae [o. J.].
  • Livoniae afflictae ad SR Majestatem et ordines reipublicae Poloniae magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae supplicatio. Rigae 1601. [reprinted in: Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614-1615, tom. III]
  • Meditatio militis christiani cordati et simul pii . Rigae 1601.
  • De Livoniae statu instabili ex fundamentis philosophicis. [O. Cit., No year]
  • Life of Georg Fahrensbach. In: Georg Zieglers Weltspiegel. Riga 1599 [biography of the Polish-Livonian general and voivode Georg von Fahrensbach, better known today under the name Jürgen von Fahrensbach , for whom Hermann had temporarily worked as secretary, in German verse]
  • Danielis Hermanni Borussi secretarii regii Poemata. Academica, aulica, bellica . Rigae 1614–1615: posthumously published complete edition of Daniel Hermann's works in three volumes, without page counting. In addition to some of the works listed above, which were also published individually, the edition contains numerous occasional poems and letter poems from Hermann's entire creative period, starting with works from his student days until shortly before his death.

literature

  • Bartłomiej Czarski: Daniela Hermanna spotkanie z Muzą. Elegia 'Ad Fredericum a Nostitz'. In: Jan Kwapisz / Włodzimierz Olszaniec (ed.): Glosy filologiczno-filozoficzne na marginesie prac Profesora Juliusza Domańskiego w osiemdziesiątą piątą rocznicę Jego urodzin . Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, Warszawa 2012, ISBN 978-83-933962-3-8 , pp. 151-165.
  • Kurt Forstreuter: Daniel Hermann - writer and diplomat in peace and war. In: Kurt Forstreuter (Hrsg.): Effects of the Prussian country. Forty articles (= studies on the history of Prussia). Vol. 33. G. Grothe'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Cologne / Berlin 1981, ISBN 978-3-7745-6454-1 , pp. 9-35.
  • Magnus Frisch: Daniel Hermann - a Well-Traveled Prussian Humanist and His Poetic Work in Riga. In: Letonica - humanitāru zinātņu žurnāls / Journal of humanities. 30, 2015, ISSN  1407-3110 , pp. 44-57 ( http://lulfmi.lv/files/letonica/Letonica2015_2.pdf ).
  • Magnus Frisch: Nil utilius, nil praestantius. About the history, nature and meaning of academic life in Daniel Hermann's poem De vita literata sive scholastica. In: A. Jönsson / G. Vogt-Spira (eds.): The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome (= Spudasmata ; Vol. 171). Olms, Hildesheim / New York 2017. pp. 55–75. ISBN 978-3-487-15583-8 .
  • Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. Vol. 2, pp. 570-572, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 .
  • Lada V Syrovatko: Revisiting the Genre Narure of the Poem 'De Rana et Lacerta, Succino Prussiaco insitis' by Daniel Hermann. In: Amber in the history of medicine. Proceedings of the International Conference . Ed .: Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum. Kaliningrad 2016, pp. 266-271. ISBN 978-5-903920-43-3 .
  • Laura Kreigere-Liepiṋa: Amber in the Poem 'De Rana et Lacerta, Succino Prussiaco insitis' (About a Frog and Lizard Embedded in Prussian Amber) by Daniel Hermann (1543-1601), a humanist from Riga. In: Amber in the history of medicine. Proceedings of the International Conference . Ed .: Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum. Kaliningrad 2016, pp. 234–244. ISBN 978-5-903920-43-3 .
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: News from the Prussian poet Daniel Hermann, partly from his own writings and partly from other sources. Koenigsberg 1758.
  • Theodor Schiemann:  Hermann, Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 166 f.
  • Theodor Schiemann: Daniel Hermann. A Livonian humanist. In: Riga'scher Almanach. 21, 1878, pp. 1-19.
  • Theodor Schiemann: Daniel Hermann. A Livonian humanist. In: Theodor Schiemann (Hrsg.): Historical representations and archival studies. Contributions to Baltic history . Hamburg / Mitau 1886, pp. 51–74.
  • Jerzy Starnawski: Poems of Daniel Hermann Borussus on the Foundation of the University of Zamocz (1594). In: Humanistica Lovaniensia. 26, 1977, ISSN  0774-2908 , pp. 204-218.
  • Aija Taimiṋa: The Book Collection of Daniel Hermann, Poet, Diplomat and Civil Servant, as a Source for Biography and Cultural Studies. In: Amber in the history of medicine. Proceedings of the International Conference . Ed .: Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum. Kaliningrad 2016, pp. 245–265. ISBN 978-5-903920-43-3 .
  • Kristi Viiding: The first woman in the process of book production in Livonia: the case of Ursula Krüger and Daniel Hermann. In: Journal of Baltic Studies. 48: 3, 2017, pp. 351–362. ISSN  0162-9778 . doi: 10.1080 / 01629778.2016.1141106 . http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01629778.2016.1141106 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kristi Viiding: The first woman in the process of book production in Livonia: the case of Ursula Krüger and Daniel Hermann . In: Journal of Baltic Studies . tape 48 , no. 3 , 2017, p. 351-362 .
  2. ↑ https://raa.gf-franken.de/de/suche-nach-stammbuechern.html?permaLink=1567_hermann (description and list of single carriers in the Repertorium Alborum Amicorum).
  3. ^ Friederich Konrad Gadebusch: Art. "Hermann" . In: Livonian library in alphabetical order . Second part. Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, Riga 1777, p. 57-64 .
  4. ↑ Danielis Hermanni, Borussi, Discursus Philosophicus, de rana & lacerta . In: Michael Lilienthal (Ed.): Acta Borussica ecclesiastica, civilia, literaria. Or careful collection of all kinds of news, certificates, writings and documents related to the history of the State of Prussia . tape 2 , no. 1 . Christoph Gottfried Eckart, Königsberg / Leipzig 1732, p. 121-122 .
  5. ^ Art. "Hermann (Daniel)" . In: Johann Friedrich von Recke, Karl Eduard Napiersky (ed.): General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . tape 2 . Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and son, Mitau 1829, p. 256-259 .
  6. ^ Magnus Frisch: Daniel Hermann — a Well-Traveled Prussian Humanist and His Poetic Work in Riga . In: Letonica . tape 30 , 2015, p. 51-52 .
  7. ↑ Magnus Frisch: Nil utilius, nil praestantius. About the history, nature and meaning of academic life in Daniel Hermann's poem De vita literata sive scholastica . In: Arne Jönsson, Gregor Vogt-Spira (Ed.): The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome (=  Spudasmata . No. 171 ). Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-487-15583-8 , p. 55-75 .
  8. ↑ Magnus Frisch: Nil utilius, nil praestantius. About the history, nature and meaning of academic life in Daniel Hermann's poem De vita literata sive scholastica . In: Arne Jönsson, Gregor Vogt-Spira (Ed.): The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region. Perceptions and Adaptations of Greece and Rome, (=  Spudasmata . No. 171 ). Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-487-15583-8 , p. 61-62 .
  9. ↑ Magnus Frisch: Daniel Hermann - a Well-Traveled Prussian Humanist and His Poetic Work in Riga . In: Letonica - humanitāru zinātņu žurnāls / Journal of humanities . tape 30 , 2015, p. 48-49 .
  10. ↑ Magnus Frisch: Daniel Hermann - a Well-Traveled Prussian Humanist and His Poetic Work in Riga . In: Letonica - humanitāru zinātņu žurnāls / Journal of humanities . tape 30 , 2015, p. 48-50 .
personal data
SURNAME Hermann, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1543
PLACE OF BIRTH Neidenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1601
Place of death Riga