Eustachius von Knobelsdorff

Eustachius von Knobelsdorff , also: Eustathius (born March 14, 1519 in Heilsberg ; † June 11, 1571 in Breslau ), Canon of Frauenburg / East Prussia and Breslau, 1548 comes palatinus (papal Count of the Palatinate ) and eques auratus (knight of the golden spur, päpstl Chamberlain), administrator of the cath. Church of Warmia, official (spiritual judge) of Silesia and German neo-Latin poet and epic poet .

Life

Born as the son of the mayor of Heilsberg Georg von Knobelsdorff (studied in Kraków in 1502, died 1544, married to Anna von Schoniohan, died around 1571) a. was settled in East Prussia. After attending grammar school in Kulm in 1533 , he moved to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 1536 and then went on an educational journey that took him to the University of Wittenberg , the University of Leipzig , the University of Leuven , the University of Paris and leads to the University of Orléans .

In 1544 he worked as a canon in Frauenburg , in 1556 he moved to Breslau, where he helped out the local bishop. Despite all sympathy for the opinion of Philipp Melanchthon , he remained loyal to the Catholic Church theologically, especially influenced by his foster father Johannes Dantiscus . Little is known of his work. In it he turns against the threatening Turkish threat and describes Paris in his time.

On May 17, 1548 he was appointed by Pope Paul III. appointed comes palatinus . The large, splendid document (today in the von Knobelsdorff family archive) shows the royal coat of arms of Sigismund II August of Poland on the top left, and the coat of arms of Pope Paul III in the middle. and on the right the Knobelsdorff coat of arms of Eustachius.

His epitaph was in the Wroclaw Cathedral (lost in the war).

Works

• Carmen paraeneticum
• Eligia de bello Turicico . Wittenberg 1539
• Lutetiae Parisiorum descriptio, elegiaco carmine . Paris 1543
• Lovanii descriptio, elcgiaco carmine . Lions 1542
• Reverendissimi… Joannis Dantisci epicedium . Danzig 1548
• Divi Poloniae Regis Sigismundi I. epicacdion . Krakow 1548
• Ecclesia catholica afflicta . 1557

literature

• Franz Buchholz: The apprenticeship and wandering years of the Warmian cathedral curator Eustachius von Knobelsdorff . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands Vol. 22 (1926), pp. 61–134, 177–255
• Franz Buchholz: Eustachius von Knobelsdorff as a student in Kulm . In: Journal for the history and antiquity of Ermlands vol. 23 (1929). Pp. 804-820
• Ernst Manfred Wermter: Eustachius von Knobelsdorff, governor v. Warmia 1558-64 . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands Jg. 86 (1957) pp. 93–111
• Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon , Stuttgart 1947–1958; appears in the third edition since 1968, so far 24 volumes and 6 supplementary volumes and since 1999 the series "The 20th Century"
• Knobelsdorff, Eustach from. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 15, Leipzig 1737, column 1137.
• Editor:  Knobelsdorff, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 190 f. ( Digitized version ). - family items
• Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )