Georg Mauritius

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Georg Mauritius

Georg Mauritius (also: Moritz ; * December 13, 1539 in Nuremberg ; † December 30, 1610 there ) was a German pedagogue, Latin poet and playwright.

Life

Mauritius came from a poor background and was able to work its way up through tireless industry. He studied at the University of Wittenberg from 1559 , acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy there on February 17, 1562 and found access to the senate of the philosophical faculty as an adjunct .

In 1572 he became headmaster of the school in Steyr , from where he was expelled after twenty years of service. He returned to Wittenberg , went to the Nuremberg School of the Holy Spirit as principal in 1600 and died at his place of birth. Mauritius had left behind various casual and didactic poems. However, his dramas became more important.

family

His first marriage was on June 6, 1569 with Appolonia, daughter of Caspar Cruciger the Elder . The sons Georg Mauritus and Kaspar are known from this marriage. His second marriage was in 1585 with Gertraud, the widow of the preacher in Steyer Johann Schreyer. He concluded his third marriage with Elisabeth NN. The third marriage did not seem to have been a happy one, as the woman was said to have had various other affairs.

Selection of works

  1. Elegia scripta ad Leonh. Tuchertum, Andreas im Hoff et Here. Bomgartnerum, Patrios et Senatores primarios in inclyta Norimberga, lue ibidem graffante. Wittenberg 1563
  2. Elegia de causis admirandae unionis duarum naturarum in Christ. Wittenberg 1565
  3. Progr. In festo Angelorum. Wittenberg
  4. Carmen congratulations. Wittenberg 1564
  5. A Christian Comoedia of the miserable fall and joyous return of the human race from the h. Bernhardo was taken and put into German law. Leipzig 1606
  6. Comoedia by David and Goliath. Leipzig 1606
  7. Comoedia of the wise men from the Orient. Leipzig 1606
  8. Comoedia from Nabal. Leipzig 1607
  9. Comoedia of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. Leipzig 1607
  10. Comoedia of the pious Ezechia, king in Judah. Leipzig 1607
  11. Comoedia from Haman. Leipzig 1607
  12. Comoedia from all stalls. Leipzig 1607
  13. Comoedia from the school system. Leipzig 1607
  14. Comoedia from Count Walther von Salutz and Grisolden. Leipzig 1607

literature

  • Wilhelm Scherer:  Mauritius, Georg the Elder . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 709 f.
  • Johann Willibald Nagl, Jakob Zeidler, Eduard Castle: German-Austrian literary history. C. Fromme, 1899
  • Christian Conrad Nopitsch: Nuremberg scholar lexicon. Johann Leonhard Sixt Lechner, Altdorf 1802, Part 5, first supplement, p. 381 ( GoogleBooks )
  • Theodor Wotschke : From Wittenberg church registers. In: Archive for the history of the Reformation. (ARG) Vol. 29, 1932, pp. 169-223
  • Georg Andreas Will: Nuremberg scholarly lexicon . ( GoogleBooks )

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Mauritius the Elder J. (* May 20, 1570 in Wittenberg; † December 17/18, 1631 in Altdorf) was the preceptor of the high school in Altdorf, 1623 full professor of poetry at the University of Altdorf, wrote: De salutifero Christi Jesu natali deque redemtione et reparatione humani genris per one Hymni duo RDD Mart. Lutheri epica paraphrasi latine redditi a Ge. Maur. I. Classis Alt. Praec . Altdorf, 1613; Narratio comica de amicitia Damonis ac Pythiae rhythmis olim teutonicis contexta a M. Franc. Omichio, ludimoderatore Gustrouiens, nunc prosa oratione latine conversa a M. Ge. Mauricio . Altdorf, 1617; Ad Jo. Christian. Oelhafen pro laurea poetica fibi donata Eucharisticon , Altdorf, 1623; and in 1621 translated his father's grisoldis into Latin prose. (cf. Mauritius, Georg. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Grosses complete Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 2219. and cited references)
  2. * December 21, 1571 in Wittenberg