Ernst Christoph Homburg

Ernst Christoph Homburg (born March 1, 1607 in Mihla ; † before June 27, 1681 , buried in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a versatile lyric poet, Protestant hymn poet and translator of the Baroque period .

Life

Homburg comes from a Protestant pastor family from Mihla . After finishing school in nearby Creuzburg , he enrolled in Wittenberg on July 3, 1632 , to begin studying law . Even here he appeared as a poet of student and anacreontic society songs, which were later to be included in his Clio . From 1635 to 1638 he lived mostly in Hamburg , interrupted by an extended stay in the Netherlands , where he continued his legal studies, apparently without ever graduating. In 1642 he settled as a court actuary in Naumburg (Saale)low. His transfer of the Joseph Cats poetry in 1648 earned him acceptance as <The Chaste> in the Fruitful Society . Homburg's easy-to-compose songs were set to music by many composers (including Johann Sebastian Bach in BWV 85 ), and his shepherd poems were applauded by the Pegnitz shepherds . In the hymns composed on a long sick bed, he turns out to be an admirer of Angelus Silesius . Homburg can be considered one of the most talented poets of the 17th century.

Works

Well-known hymn: 1659: " Jesus, my life's life " (EG 86, melody by Wolfgang Weßnitzer 1661)
Scold and seriousness Clio. 2 parts Hamburg 1638 (extended edition Hamburg 1642; part 1 poetry and secular songs, part 2 epigrams)
Tragi-Comoedia of the shepherdess Dulcimunda in love. Jena 1643
(Ex.) Jacob Cats : Self-argument, that's vigorous movement of the flesh. Nuremberg 1647
(Ex.) Nicolaus Vigelius: Judgment Booklet. Naumburg 1649
Holy songs. 2 parts. Jena 1659

List of works and references

Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Ernst Christoph Homburg (1605-1681)", in: Personal bibliographies on the prints of the Baroque , vol. 3. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 2160-67. ISBN 3-7772-9105-6

literature

Max Crone: Sources and role models Ernst Christoph Homburg. Dissertation Heidelberg 1911
G. van Gemert: “Clio and Zeeusche Nachtegael. Ernst Christoph Homburgs poetisches procedure ”, in: Chloe 10 (1990) 210–232
F. van Ingen: “The singing muse and the <art understanding>”, in: Festschrift Hans-Gert Roloff , Bern 1983, pp. 406–426.
Ernst Christoph Homburg, Don't save on love , edited and edited by Eckardt Hoffmann, Mihla 2007
Klaus Haberkamm: Homburg, Ernst Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 588 ( digitized version ).
Ernst Kelchner : Homburg, Ernst Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 43 f.
Michael Hanst: Homburg, Ernst Christoph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1016-1017. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst Christoph Homburg in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Ernst Christoph Homburg in VD 17 .
Digitized prints by Ernst Christoph Homburg in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
Ernst Christoph Homburg in the Christian song database
Home history page

Individual evidence

↑ Year of birth derived from baptism entry, often 1605 in older literature

personal data
SURNAME	Homburg, Ernst Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	lyric poet, evangelical hymn poet and translator of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mihla near Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH	before June 27, 1681
Place of death	uncertain: Naumburg (Saale)

[1] Year of birth derived from baptism entry, often 1605 in older literature