Georg Reimann

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Georg Reimann (* 1570 in Leobschütz ; † June 9, 1615 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German poet and rhetorician .

Life

Georg was the son of the Melanchthon pupil and headmaster in Leobschütz Johann Reimann and his wife Katarina, daughter of the citizen in Leobschütz Georg Reimer. He had worked as a teacher at the city school in Jägerndorf, studied from October 23, 1593 at the University of Wittenberg and there on September 22, 1595 received a master's degree in philosophical sciences. He had also made a name for himself as a good poet and received the poet's crown from Nikolaus von Reusner . In 1596 he received an extraordinary professor of rhetoric at the University of Königsberg , where he dealt with the speeches of Cicero (Orationum Ciceronianarum). In addition, in 1599 he was given the responsibility of supervising the Königsberg pedagogy as an archipagogue.

In 1601 he became a full professor of rhetoric in Königsberg and until 1612 he was given the post of librarian at the palace library. Reimann also took part in organizational tasks at the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semester of 1610/11 . He has also made a name for himself as a songwriter. For example, his text poems of the songs Aus Lieb lets God of Christendom , Maria comes to the purification , God be thanked at all times , We all sing with the sound of joy and his Christmas hymn O Joy about Freud in the church hymn books of East Prussia use.

family

Reimann was married twice.

On October 29, 1598 he married Katharina (* November 12, 1578; † July 9, 1601), daughter of the Count Eberstein Council and Chancellor Lic. Thomas Kettner and his wife Maria Comberg. The son Georg and the daughter Maria come from the marriage.

He concluded his second marriage in 1602 with Sybilla (* December 9, 1579; † February 26, 1649), the daughter of the councilor Erhard von Gehren in the Königsberg old town. Erhard († November 15, 1605), Reinhold († 1610), three sons of unknown names († before 1649) and two daughters († before 1649) are known from the marriage.

Works

  • Disp. de statibus.
  • Disp. de natura.
  • Disp. de officio.
  • Disp. fine rhetorices.
  • Oratio de adfinitate, et differentia inter oratoriam et poeticam. (1601)

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 407
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 123, 275, 403,
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Scholar Lexicon. Vol. 3, Col. 1980
  • Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot publishing house, Leipzig, 1903, p. 111
  • J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, p. 464
  • Karl Goedeke: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. Verlag Ehlermann, Dresden, 1887, Vol. 3, p. 152
  • Gottfried Döring: On the history of music in Prussia. A historical-critical attempt. Verlag Neumann-Hartmann, Elbing, 1855, vol. 3, p. 135, ( online )
  • lu:  Reimann, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 701 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Gallandi July 10 (probably transmission error), according to LP from son 3rd day of Pentecost 1615 = May 29, 1615 according to the Julian calendar 1615; Gregorian calendar June 8th
  2. ↑ Georg Reimann (born October 9, 1599 in Königsberg; † January 30, 1661 ibid), School Gaudenz and Königsberg, 1617 State School Joachimsthal in Brandenburg, November 1, 1619 University of Wittenberg, 1622 University of Königsberg with Levinus Pouchenius elector. Scholarship, 1625 University of Frankfurt, private tutor with Adam von Schlieben auf Liezen (with pupils in Wittenberg and Leipzig), 1632 jur. Studies in Wittenberg, January 5, 1632 Lic. Jur., Then as Hofmeister to Leiden, France Paris, Strasbourg, 1634 Frankfurt / M., Visited the Palatinate, was on November 4, 1634 Dr. jur. in Wittenberg, was appointed court and court counselor at the court by the Elector of Brandenburg, 1651 president and official of the Samland consistory, 1st marriage July 16, 1635 Regina († September 3, 1646), daughter of businessman and church mayor Balthasar Platen. Two sons. George I (25 July 1636 - 23 February 1637); Georg II. (* January 22, 1638 - September 24, 1652), II. June 25, 1647 Anna (* October 7, 1626 - September 22, 1655) daughter of the mayor of Kneiphoff and Erbsassen on Schwanitz and Lichtenfeld Johann Krintz . Childless, III. 1656 Anna Regina (born September 3, 1626 - † March 22, 1690), daughter of the court relative in Kneiphof Konstantin Fahrenheit, widow of Ahasversus Schmitmer (Schmietner). Childless (Roth vol. 1, p. 442, R 882, Gallandi, Matr.UWB 1619, no. 586)
  3. ↑ * June 1601; † 1622, married to the pastor in Brandenburg Johann Halbach von der Porten (* July 23, 1589; † November 13, 1639)
personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and rhetorician
DATE OF BIRTH 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1615
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)