Georg Rollehagen

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Georg Rollehagen

Georg Rollehagen (born April 22, 1542 in Bernau near Berlin ; † May 20, 1609 in Magdeburg ) was a German writer , playwright , educator and preacher.

Life

Georg Rollehagen was born as the son of the cloth maker, beer brewer and farmer Gregor Rollenhagen and his wife Euphemia née Immen on April 22, 1542 in Bernau. After his father's death in 1543, grandfather Johann Immen took his grandson Georg in and adopted him. As a child he suffered from smallpox and plague. Georg attended the Latin school in Bernau until 1556, then from 1558 to 1560 the grammar school in Prenzlau and Magdeburg. In 1560 he matriculated in Wittenberg , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1567. He then worked at the Magdeburg city school. From 1575 he was rector of the school, which he led to supra-regional importance. From 1573 to 1609 Georg Rollenhagen also held the office of preacher at the Sankt Sebastian Church in Magdeburg. In 1583 his son, the no less famous poet and emblematist Gabriel Rollenhagen was born.

Almost unnoticed by his immediate surroundings, Georg Rollenhagen developed into an important writer and school dramatist of his time. He published several works under the pseudonym Marcus Hüpfinsholz von Meusebach. The best known is the Froschmeuseler , published in 1595 . In this bourgeois didactic work, he illustrates the age of the Reformation in the form of an epic animal poem in which Luther appears as the frog "Elbmarx". The Froschmeuseler turns satirically against the war and supports a bourgeois ethic.

Georg Rollehagen's grave was in Magdeburg's St. Ulrich Church . The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor , as did his hometown Bernau . A street in Munich Waldperlach also bears his name.

Works (selection)

See also

Wilhelm Raabe told some episodes from the life of Rollehagen in 1862 in " A funeral speech from 1609 ".

literature

  • Ernst Bernleithner: Humanism and Reformation in the work of Georg Rollenhagen . Dissertation, Vienna 1954
  • Ingelore Buchholz : What Magdeburg street names tell . Magdeburg 1983
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Georg Rollenhagen (1542-1609) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 5. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9133-1 , pp. 3476-3491 (list of works and references)
  • Alfred Herdt: Sources and models for Georg Rollehagen's "Froschmeuseler" . Dissertation, Strasbourg 1909
  • Wolfgang Klose: The Wittenberg Scholar Studbook. The studbook of Abraham Ulrich (1549-1577) and David Ulrich (1580-1623) . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann:  Rollenhagen, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 12 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Roland Richter: Georg Rollehagens <Froschmeuseler> . Lang, Bern 1975
  • W. Seelmann:  Rollenhagen, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 87-95.
  • Martin Wiehle : Magdeburg personalities. Published by the Magistrate of the City of Magdeburg, Department of Culture. imPuls Verlag, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 3-910146-06-6 .
  • Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Vol. 1, p. 444, R 886

Web links

Commons : Georg Rollenhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Georg Rollenhagen  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Wernicke: Bernauer Stadt-Chronik. From official and other reliable sources. L. Röther's Buchdruckerei, Bernau 1894. P. 619 f.
personal data
SURNAME Rollehagen, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, educator and preacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1542
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernau
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1609
Place of death Magdeburg