David Schirmer
David Schirmer also pseudonym: The determining , The Beshir Mende , DiSander ; (* May 29, 1623 in Pappendorf ; buried August 12, 1686 in Dresden ) was a lyric poet of the Baroque period .
Life
The poet was the son of the evangelical pastor of the same name, who also wrote. First brought up by his father, he came to Christian Gueintz in 1640 at the grammar school in Halle (Saale) . In 1641 he matriculated in Leipzig and from 1645 studied under August Buchner in Wittenberg . Philipp von Zesen accepted him into the German-minded cooperative in 1647 . From 1649 he worked as a court poet in Dresden . In 1650 he published his first collection of poems. Five years later he was appointed court librarian as Christian Brehme's successor. After almost thirty years of activity, he retired due to illness in 1683 and died three years later in his adopted home in Dresden. He was buried in the Johanniskirchhof ; his grave has not been preserved.
The 800-page two-part collection Poetic Rose Plush (1657) shows him at the height of his poetic work. Above all in love poetry and song poetry , his high level of skill is evident, although he was undoubtedly influenced by Martin Opitz and Paul Fleming . Another volume, Poetic Rauten-Gepüsche (1663), offers on 700 pages the occasional poems and courtly divertissements that his job as court poet required. In addition, a collection of texts by Nilus the Elder in Schirmer's translation was published in Dresden in 1689 : The holy martyr and bishop Nili Güldene Sprüche: From the Greek in Hoch-Teusche Reimen put by David Schirmern .
Literature (selection)
- Anthony J. Harper: David Schirmer . Stuttgart 1977.
- Reinhard Kade: David Schirmer. A Saxon poet 1623 to 1686 . In: New archive on Saxon history . Vol. 13, 1892, pp. 117-131.
- Erwin Kunath: David Schirmer. Dissertation Leipzig 1922.
- Emil Edmund Sattler: David Schirmer. Diss. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1972.
- Werner Sonnenberg: Studies on David Schirmer's poetry . Diss. Göttingen 1932.
- Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes) . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl. Gütersloh, Munich 1988–1991. (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
- Max von Waldberg: Schirmer, David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 311 f.
- Jörg-Ulrich Fechner: Schirmer, David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 7 f. ( Digitized version ).
List of works and references
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : David Schirmer (1623–1686) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Vol. 5. Hiersemann Stuttgart 1991, pp. 3608-3638. ISBN 3-7772-9133-1
- Werner Sonnenberg: Studies on David Schirmer's poetry , dissertation Göttingen 1932
Web links
- Literature by and about David Schirmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about David Schirmer in the Saxon Bibliography
- Publications by and about David Schirmer in VD 17 .
- Digitized prints by David Schirmer in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
- Konstantin Hermann: Schirmer, David (pseudonym: DiSander) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christel Hebig: Poet at the Dresden court . In: Sächsische Zeitung , May 30, 1998.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schirmer, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1623 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pappendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried August 12, 1686 |
| Place of death | Dresden |