Georg Neumark

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Georg Neumark (born March 16, 1621 in Langensalza ; † July 8, 1681 in Weimar ) was a German poet and composer of Protestant hymns .

Life

Memorial plaque in memory of Georg Neumark on the Jakobskirchhof in Weimar
Georg Neumark stained glass window in the Paul Gerhardt Church in Lübben

Neumark was the son of Michael Neumark and his wife Martha. From 1630 Neumark attended the grammar school in Schleusingen and later switched to that of Gotha . In 1640 he began to study law at the University of Königsberg . In 1641 attacked and robbed on the way there near Gardelegen , he moved penniless to Hamburg. Due to the turmoil of the war, he ended up in Kiel , where he “stayed afloat” with a position as tutor. It was not until 1643 that he was able to return to Königsberg , where he devoted himself more and more to music in addition to Jura. He was encouraged and encouraged by Simon Dach .

After successfully completing his studies, Neumark first went to Danzig (Gdańsk) and in 1649 to Thorn . Two years later, in 1651, he returned to his home in Thuringia . There, his uncle, Hofrat Plattner, introduced him to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar .

The latter appointed Neumark as registry registrar and in 1652 as librarian. In the following year, Duke Neumark accepted the Order of Palms into the Fruit Bringing Society . He gave it the company name of the end of the scion and the motto useful and enjoyable . Neumark's emblem was black-brown, filled carnations . Neumark's entry can be found in the Koethener Society Register under no. 605. In 1656 he was elected ore shrine holder of the Fruit Bringing Society .

The Pegnese Flower Order accepted Neumark as a member in 1679. With Sigmund von Birken , the president of the Nürnberger Dichtergesellschaft, who also worked for him as a "literature manager" in the background, Neumark had an intensive, but not unadulterated correspondence.

Georg Neumark died on July 8, 1681 at the age of 60 in Weimar and was buried there in the Jacobsfriedhof . The Protestant day of remembrance is July 9th.

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Neumark wrote numerous books and 34 sacred songs. Probably the most famous is the consolation song " Who only lets God rule " from 1641.

A large part of the Weimar holdings fell victim to the fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in 2004 .

Works (selection)

  • Who only lets God rule , 1641 (his most famous song)
  • Poetic and musical pleasure forest , Hamburg 1652
  • Propagated musical-poetic pleasure forest , Jena 1657
  • Christian potentate Ehren-Krohne , Jena 1675
  • Poetic-historical pleasure garden , Frankfurt / Main 1666
  • Poetic panels, or thorough instructions on German verse art , Nuremberg 1668
  • The new sprouting Teutsche Palm Tree , Nuremberg 1669
  • Tearing House-Kreutz , Weimar 1681 ( digitized version )

Trivia

Neumark usually called himself "von Mühlhausen from Thuringia" (after the city of his childhood) when asked about his name. Most of his works are likely to have appeared under his real surname.

He wrote his well-known song " Who only lets the dear God rule " under the impression of the following story: He did not want to succeed in Hamburg and all hope for God's help was extinguished. He had wistfully said goodbye to all acquaintances he had made. He made his way to Kiel in Holstein with several Hamburg beer tours. He arrived there happy, lay down in a hostel with the childlike confidence that God would have mercy on him and help him fatherly and provide for him. A pastor and a city doctor in Kiel took care of the highly educated young man and helped him to become a private tutor. After he received this, he happily wrote the song " Who only lets God rule " on the first day about the unforeseen grace .

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote a choral setting for the chorale, Max Reger an organ work, Johann Sebastian Bach used the song ten times in his works, including in the Weimar cantata “ I had a lot of concern ”.

Johann Herdegen suspected in 1744 that the song was composed after the unexpected return of the poet's viol, which was sold in dire need. Numerous poems and musical works can be found about this story. These include a ballad by Friedrich Kind , a book for young people by Gustav Nieritz and an opera libretto by Ernst Pasqué Georg Neumark and the viol with music by Julius Rietz , which premiered in Weimar in 1859.

literature

  • Gottfried Claussnitzer: Georg Neumark. A picture of life and literature from the seventeenth century . Diss., University of Leipzig 1924.
  • Thomas Diecks:  Neumark, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 165 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Friese: Who only lets God rule. Georg Neumark and his song . Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1960.
  • Franz Knauth: Georg Neumark after life and poetry . Beyer, Langensalza 1881.
  • Michael Ludscheidt: Georg Neumark (1621–1681). Life and work . Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1361-1 (also dissertation from the University of Jena, 2000)
  • lu:  Neumark, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 539-541.
  • Alfred Baumgartner: Neumark . In: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 160 .

List of works and references

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Neumark  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Georg Neumark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Bernd Mende: His song of comfort will stay alive all over the world . In: Sunday . No. 28, July 9, 2006, p. 10
  2. ↑ From Neumark's memoirs, retold after Tears of the House-Kreutz , Weimar 1681 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Neumark, Georg
SHORT DESCRIPTION German poet and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Langensalza
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1681
PLACE OF DEATH Weimar