Friedrich von Logau

Tears , 1655

Friedrich von Logau ( pseudonym Salomon of Golaw ; * before January 14 ^jul. / 24. January 1605 ^greg. On Good Brockuth [since 1945: Brochocin ] at Nimptsch , Duchy of Brieg , † July 14 ^jul. / 24. July 1655 ^{greg .} in Liegnitz , Duchy of Liegnitz ) was a German poet and epigramist of the Baroque .

origin

Friedrich came from the Silesian noble family von Logau . His parents were the landowner Georg von Logau and his second wife Anna von Reideburg. He lost his father in the year he was born (1605), his mother remarried and died in Brieg on June 29, 1649. Georg von Logau (died 1553) on Schlaupitz (son of Georg von Logau, who died in 1541 ) also belonged to Friedrich's ancestors. who wrote in Latin in the first half of the 16th century.

Life and works

Logau attended the grammar school in Brieg from October 13, 1614 to June 1625. On July 6, 1625, he enrolled at the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg , where he studied law for two years. In 1633, at the age of 28, he took over the indebted and poorly profitable family estate, which he retained even in times of war, even when he joined the court in 1644.

On September 29, 1644 Logau was appointed to the court of the Brieger Duke Ludwig IV and entered the service of the Duke. In 1653 Liegnitz and Wohlau fell to Ludwig and his two brothers, and the now expanded territory was re-divided. Logau followed his master to Liegnitz in 1654. In the summer of 1654 he was promoted to government councilor and court marshal.

In July 1648 Logau was accepted into the Fruit-Bringing Society on behalf of Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen . Logau chose "the diminutive" as the company name and " Milzkraut " as the heraldic plant .

Friedrich von Logau died in his apartment in Burggasse on the night of July 24th at the age of 50 years and 26 weeks and was buried on August 22nd 1655 in Liegnitz according to the death register of the Lutheran parish "To our dear woman". Since he was a member of the parish of Our Lady , but he still got his final resting place at the princely collegiate church, the relatives were charged double the funeral fee.

Title copper of the Sinn-Fichte 1654

As the author of more than three thousand epigrams ("epitomized poems"), he rebuked vices such as addiction to cleaning, hypocrisy and greed, as well as "immigration" with its wild language and mimicry. He lamented the devastating war, urged his compatriots to love the country and expressed critical views on the work of the politicians of his time (von Logau's poem, Today's World Art, comes from ):

" A nders be, and appear differently:
Anders talk my way:
All praise, all wearing
feign Allen, always being,
give everything winds sailing:
malignant and good living subservient:
All tuna and everything Tichten
Just auff own benefit judge;
Who I want to command
Kan Politiſch be called this year. "

- Today's world art. In: Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend , Breßlaw, 1654, p. 210, no. [8] 71

Logau chose his pseudonym “Salomon von Golaw” after the moral judge of the Old Testament ( Proverbs Salomos ) and after the Gohlau estate in the Neumarkt district , which can be understood as an anagram of the family name.

Logau was rediscovered by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . Following up on Lessing, Gottfried Keller made one of Logau's aphorisms the leitmotif of his cycle of novels, The epic poem :

“How are you going to turn white lilies into red roses?
Kiss a white Galathee , she will laugh and blush! "

family

Friedrich von Logau married Helena von Gruttschreiber in 1631 , who died in the summer of 1641. She was a daughter of Heinrich von Gruttschreiber zu Rosenau auf Olbendorff and Obereck and Magdalena von Poser († 1625). With her, Logau had a daughter Anna, who married a Gersdorff from Lausitz after 1660 , and a son George Heinrich, who was born in 1634, but who died early.

Logau married for the second time in 1643: Helena von Knobelsdorff (1617–1686), daughter of Balthasar von Knobelsdorff, Briegischen court marshal and heir to Fritschendorf, and Dorothea von Hohendorf . After Logau's death, she married Dietrich Ernst von Rößler in 1661. In 1645 his second marriage was born to his son Balthasar Friedrich († 1702), Nassau-Dillenburg council, ancestor of the Counts of Logau. Dorothea Magdalena was born as the second child of the second marriage († 1701); In 1649 daughter Anna Helena was born († 1712), in April 1653 daughter Eleonora Sophia, who died at the age of four months. A daughter of the second marriage married the Russian general Georg Gustav von Rosen .

Heinrich Wilhelm von Logau and Altendorff, authors of the devotional book Poetisches Lust (1737), were among the other descendants .

style

The complete edition of Logau's poems contains not only "three thousand" epigrams, but 3,560, because the "other thousand" has an "addition" of 201 poems attached, and the last thousand is followed by two more encores of 102 and 257 epigrams, respectively. Anyone who selects only one epigram from this abundance would not get any impression of the change in verse types and poem forms and of the variety of topics in Logau's collection of poems. A selection of several epigrams can do this better:

Life statute

I live / this is how I live!

Kind to the gentleman;

Faithful to the prince;

Honestly to the neighbor;

I die / so I die!

(I, 5.22)

The Landes funeral service

Unfortunately the country is dead! therefore it will now be buried.

The cities / are the parish / which have to be remembered

The spolia of it: soldiers are the heirs

They inherit before you die / your heir is ours to die.

(I, 5.24)

Believe

Luthrisch / Papal and Calvinian / these beliefs all

drey

Are negotiated; but there is doubt / where Christianity is

then be.

(II, 1,100)

Honesty

Whoever is too staid / remains an honest man

But stay where he is / rarely cares.

(II, 3.29)

Beyderley nobility

Art and virtue / makes nobility; Adel also does / that

Blood;

When they both wed / is the nobility so good:

Aristocracy / that art bears / generally has this courage

That he always does his thing for money than honor.

(III, 6.11)

Auf Glissam

Glissa likes to read books; Arndt / yr is your parasite

Always at hand / but your Biebel / Amadess for the eyes.

(III, 10.85)

(from Deutscher Sinn-Getichte drey thousand, 1654)

One can see that Logau neither adhered to the requirement that an epigram should be satirical in his epigrams - although he quotes it in the preface To the reader - nor did he always follow the commandment of brevitas ( brevitas ) he has placed all his epigrams under the law of “subtle” ( argutia ). The majority of his epigrams are mainly gnomic epigrams. An example of the type of gnomish epiphany is life statute . “Logau has probably seen its very own in such sayings,” says Elschenbroich . Logau's epigrams are mainly addressed to the court. Examples of this are the poems Honligkeit , but also Beyderley Adel and Auff Glissam . A large number of Logau's epigrams are also directed against the cities, the evidence for this is the epigram of the State funeral service . The epigram Faith indicates that Logau, like many writers of the time, is an Irish spirit. Contrary to the denominations' claim to represent true Christianity, he calls for a non-denominational piety of the heart, which does not prove itself in confession and church practice, but rather in the fact that the believer understands his life as a mission and willingly accepts death (see above all life statutes ).

The epigrammatic work of Logau is rich in stylistic peculiarities and creative new formations: He often leaves out pronouns and articles , uses word stems in the neuter such as "the free" or "the true" for abstracts like freedom and truth, "seineley" or "meinley" for "something that was like his (mine)", "well discussed" for someone who can speak well. In addition, he created many Germanizations ("Beilaut" for Latin accentus ) and used Silesian provincialisms.

Final remark

No interpretation of reality can assert itself so much with Logau that it created a unit of his collection of poems. Only two thoughts seem to rule everything: that the world is in disarray and that the moralist and critic (precisely because of this) can find no end in its description. These thoughts are combined with an imprecise idea of the nature of the epigram. This allows the author to change the speaking roles at will, depending on the speaking situation: From the praise poem he moves on to satire, from the "life statute" to the entertaining epigram. The rapid change of speaking roles and the requirement of “subtle”, ie witty expression no longer allow the author to hide the tensions and conflicting interests that determine his life. On the contrary: they come into their own when speaking in a funny way. The result is a picture of the epoch that is certainly not impartially drawn, but one that reveals many features of the reality of that time.

literature

Thomas Althaus, Sabine Seelbach (Ed.): Salomo in Schlesien. Contributions to the 400th birthday of Friedrich von Logau (1605–2005). (= Chloe. Supplements to Daphnis; 39). Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York 2006, ISBN 90-420-2066-0 .
Martin Bojanowski: Friedrich von Logau. In: Schlesische Lebensbilder. Edited by the Historical Commission for Silesia , Volume 3, Breslau 1928, pp. 10-19.
Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Friedrich von Logau (1605–1655). In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints. Volume 4, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9122-6 , pp. 2584-2588 (list of works and literature).
Fabienne Malapert: Friedrich von Logau. Lang, Bern 2002.
Andreas Palme: “Books are also lucky”. Friedrich von Logau's epistles and their reception history. (= Erlanger studies; Vol. 118). Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-7896-0818-1 .
Michael Sachs: Health, illness and doctors in the epithets of Friedrich von Logaus (February 1605 - August 25, 1655). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 17, 1998, pp. 65-88.
Ulrich Seelbach: biography. In: Friedrich von Logau. Rhymes and other works in single prints. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, pp. 23-32. Digitized
Peter Ukena: Logau, Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 116 f. ( Digitized version ). (outdated).
Friedrich von Logau. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18 vols. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , vol. 10, pp. 257-259. [Biogram, article on Salomons by Golaw Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend by Theodor Verweyen .]
Friedrich von Logau: epistles. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , pp. 255-257.
Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , pp. 257-266.

Individual evidence

↑ See the tears-tails opposite, an official funeral script distributed at the funeral; Ulrich Seelbach: biography. In: Friedrich von Logau. Rhymes and other works in single prints. Tübingen 1992, pp. 3 * -7 *; Ulrich Seelbach: Friedrich von Logau: Biographical outline. In: Solomon in Silesia. Contributions to the 400th birthday of Friedrich von Logau (1605-2005). Edited by Thomas Althaus and Sabine Seelbach. Amsterdam 2006, pp. 489-493; Wolfgang Harms: Art. Logau, Friedrich von. In: Killy. Literary dictionary. 2nd edition, Volume 7, Berlin 2010, p. 494 .; Michael Sachs, on the other hand, interprets August 15 in the Book of the Dead as the day of death (still according to the Julian calendar), which is August 25 according to the Gregorian calendar.
^ Johannes Grünewald: Contributions to Silesian presbyterology from the church books of Nimptsch in the 17th century . In: Yearbook for Silesian Church History . tape 59 , 1980, pp. 162–197, here p. 188 (information on the date of death of the mother).
↑ Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , p. 262.
^ Klaus Conermann: The members of the fruitful society 1617-1650. 527 biographies. Weinheim 1985, p. 662
↑ Johannes Sinapius: Des Schlesischen Adels Anderer Part, or continuation of Schlesischer Curiositäten, Darinnen Die Gräflichen, Freiherrlichen and noble families [...]. Leipzig and Breslau (M. Rohrlach) 1728, p. 371
↑ Book of the dead of the Protestant parish To our dear woman in Liegnitz (1655), sheet 103 ^r : “August 15th: Jst (titul.) H. Friedrich von Logaw Fürstl. Liegn. Government advice has been denied. [...] August 22nd. the noble, strict H. Friderich von Logaw [...] has been appointed to S. Johanniss [...] “, Archiwum Panstwowe w Legnicy, signature ULF. Church Lig. No. 97, p. 103, quoted by Seelbach 1992, p. 5 *.
↑ Seelbach (1998), p. 5 *.
↑ CW Ramler , GE Lessing (ed.): Friedrich von Logau: Sinngedichte. Twelve books. With notes on the poet's language. Weidmannische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1759.
↑ ^a ^b Ulrich Seelbach, Friedrich von Logau (Eine Biographie) (accessed on February 20, 2016)
↑ Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , pp. 257-265.
^ GE Lessing: Letters concerning the latest literature. Works in eight volumes, volume 4, Darmstadt 1996, 44th letter, p. 154 ff.
↑ Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , p. 265.

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personal data
SURNAME	Logau, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Golaw, Solomon von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet
DATE OF BIRTH	around February 23, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gut Brockuth (today Brochocin) near Nimptsch , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	July 24, 1655
Place of death	Liegnitz

[1] See the tears-tails opposite, an official funeral script distributed at the funeral; Ulrich Seelbach: biography. In: Friedrich von Logau. Rhymes and other works in single prints. Tübingen 1992, pp. 3 * -7 *; Ulrich Seelbach: Friedrich von Logau: Biographical outline. In: Solomon in Silesia. Contributions to the 400th birthday of Friedrich von Logau (1605-2005). Edited by Thomas Althaus and Sabine Seelbach. Amsterdam 2006, pp. 489-493; Wolfgang Harms: Art. Logau, Friedrich von. In: Killy. Literary dictionary. 2nd edition, Volume 7, Berlin 2010, p. 494 .; Michael Sachs, on the other hand, interprets August 15 in the Book of the Dead as the day of death (still according to the Julian calendar), which is August 25 according to the Gregorian calendar.

[2] Johannes Grünewald: Contributions to Silesian presbyterology from the church books of Nimptsch in the 17th century . In: Yearbook for Silesian Church History . tape 59 , 1980, pp. 162–197, here p. 188 (information on the date of death of the mother).

[3] Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , p. 262.

[4] Klaus Conermann: The members of the fruitful society 1617-1650. 527 biographies. Weinheim 1985, p. 662

[5] Johannes Sinapius: Des Schlesischen Adels Anderer Part, or continuation of Schlesischer Curiositäten, Darinnen Die Gräflichen, Freiherrlichen and noble families [...]. Leipzig and Breslau (M. Rohrlach) 1728, p. 371

[6] Book of the dead of the Protestant parish To our dear woman in Liegnitz (1655), sheet 103 ^r : “August 15th: Jst (titul.) H. Friedrich von Logaw Fürstl. Liegn. Government advice has been denied. [...] August 22nd. the noble, strict H. Friderich von Logaw [...] has been appointed to S. Johanniss [...] “, Archiwum Panstwowe w Legnicy, signature ULF. Church Lig. No. 97, p. 103, quoted by Seelbach 1992, p. 5 *.

[7] Seelbach (1998), p. 5 *.

[8] CW Ramler , GE Lessing (ed.): Friedrich von Logau: Sinngedichte. Twelve books. With notes on the poet's language. Weidmannische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1759.

[Seelbach-9] Ulrich Seelbach, Friedrich von Logau (Eine Biographie) (accessed on February 20, 2016)

[10] Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , pp. 257-265.

[11] GE Lessing: Letters concerning the latest literature. Works in eight volumes, volume 4, Darmstadt 1996, 44th letter, p. 154 ff.

[12] Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg: Logau - moralist and satirist. In: Volker Meid (Ed.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque. (= RUB . No. 7890). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000 [first 1983], ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7 , p. 265.