Gabriel Rollehagen

Gabriel Rollehagen at the age of 27

Gabriel Rollehagen (also Latinized Rollehagius ; born March 22, 1583 in Magdeburg ; † 1619 ? In Magdeburg ) was a German poet , writer and emblematicist .

Life

As the son of the well-known Magdeburg preacher and pedagogue Georg Rollenhagen , he received an excellent upbringing, first at the scholarly school run by his father. Gabriel Rollehagen's Latin valediction speech Promulsis Magdeburgensis , given here in 1602, was published in print in 1620, apparently shortly after his untimely death. In 1602 he enrolled in Leipzig, where he pursued legal studies until 1604, which he continued from 1605 at the University of Leiden . The acquaintance with Daniel Heinsius gave him access to famous humanistic scholars such as Hugo Grotius and Joseph Scaliger .

Gabriel Rollehagen had already published his often published, fictional Indian Reysen in Leipzig , which are accompanied in all prints by an appendix of popular Münchhausiaden under the title Warhaffte Lügen . Returned to Magdeburg in 1606, he published the juvenilies that were probably made in Leiden . He also achieved great success with the coarse love comedy Amantes amentes, which was also often printed (partly in Low German ). His lasting fame, however, is based on the Nucleus emblematum of 1611, a splendid book of emblems.

Works (selection)

• Amantes amentes is a very graceful game of blind love. Magdeburg 1609.
• Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum . Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York, 1985, ISBN 3-487-07505-9 (.. Nachdr d lat edition v 1611;.. In 1613 by de Passe Crispin the Elder published in Utrecht ).
  German Exercised under the title of meaning pictures . Edited by Carsten-Peter Warncke. Harenberg, Dortmund 1983, ISBN 3-88379-378-7 .
• Four books more marvelous bit therefore heard from and unbelievable Indian reysen. Bötcher, Magdeburg 1603 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ).
  Reprint d. Edition 1605. Edited by Gerhard Dünnhaupt . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7772-9424-1 .

literature

• Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Gabriel Rollenhagen (1583–1619?) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Vol. 5. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9133-1 , pp. 3466-3475 (list of works and literature).
• Wilhelm Kühlmann :  Rollenhagen, Gabriel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 13 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Seelmann :  Rollenhagen, Gabriel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 84-87.

Web links

Wikisource: Gabriel Rollenhagen  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Gabriel Rollenhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Gabriel Rollenhagen  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Gabriel Rollehagen in VD 17 .
• Digitized prints by Gabriel Rollenhagen in the catalog of the Herzog August Library