Georg Sabinus
Georg Sabinus , actually Georg Schuler (born April 23, 1508 in old town Brandenburg , † December 2, 1560 in Frankfurt an der Oder ) was a German poet and diplomat . As a professor of poetry and eloquence, he was founding rector of the Albertus University in Königsberg .
Life
Georg Sabinus was the son of the mayor of the old town of Brandenburg Balthasar Schuler. After attending the city school, he studied ancient literature and law in Wittenberg from 1523/24 to 1533. During this time he took his poet name Sabinus . Here he also heard lectures from Philipp Melanchthon , friend and colleague of Martin Luther , and frequented his house. On his study trip to Italy in 1533/34 he made influential acquaintances, to whom he owed the title of " papal count palatine ". On his return he became engaged to Philipps and Katharina Melanchthon's daughter Anna , whom he married in 1536. The marriage wasn't happy. After Anna's death in 1547, the children were raised by their grandparents in Wittenberg.
After a long stay with the Archbishop of Mainz , Albrecht von Brandenburg , he became professor of poetry and eloquence at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in 1538 .
On August 17, 1544, Duke Albrecht I of Brandenburg-Ansbach was able to inaugurate his university in Königsberg and led Georg Sabinus as the first rector into the auditorium.
Right from the start, the Albertina was based on the principle of freedom. It became a place of refuge for believers who were oppressed in German and European countries. The first decades after the foundation were stormy. It came to the Protestant dogma dispute . The duke enforced Andreas Osiander's appointment to a theological chair - against the wishes of the faculty.
After falling out with the professors and the duke, Sabinus returned to Frankfurt (Oder) in 1555 and was electoral councilor and envoy . The Brandenburg Elector Joachim II sent him several times on a diplomatic mission abroad. As a diplomat at the Polish royal court, he laid the foundation stone for the loaning of the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns to the Duchy of Prussia. In 1560 he fell ill on a trip to Italy on behalf of the elector, returned to Frankfurt (Oder) in winter and died shortly afterwards.
In his time he was a well-known and sought-after author of homage poems and didactic pieces; he also wrote interpretative and historical works. In the spirit of Ovid he wrote elegies and chose his name after the Roman poet Sabinus .
Works
- Poemata . 1544 and 1558
- Sabini carmina . Leipzig 1563
literature
- Petrus Albinus : Vita Georgii Sabini Brandenbvrgensis, ic., Poetæ laureati, et comitis Palatini in aula Lateranensi, Consiliarij Illustrissimorum Marchionum Brandenburgensium, [et] ad diuersos proceres Legati, Professoris Eloquentiæ in Acad. Francofordiana ad Viadrum, Viri summi [et] clarissimi / Consignata potissimum ex ipsius scriptis a Petro Albino Niuemontio . Wittenberg: Welack, 1588; exp. annotated edition. by Theodor Crusius. Liegnitz: Rorlach, 1724
- Otto Amdohr: Two elegies of the Frankfurt Rector Georg Sabinus: translated and provided with a historical treatise. Frankfurt a. O.: Friedrichs-Gymnasium, Festschrift 1894, pp. 129–153
- Adolf Fürstenhaupt: Georg Sabinus, the singer of the Hohenzoller dynasty: a literary historical sketch in the context of the sixteenth century. Berlin: Gebauer, 1849
- Moritz Wilhelm Heffter: In memory of Georg Sabinus, the excellent poet, academic teacher and diplomat, co-founder of the University of Königsberg in Prussia. Leipzig: Weigel, 1844
- Walther Hubatsch with the collaboration of Iselin Gundermann: The Albertus University in Königsberg / Prussia in pictures . Würzburg 1966; 2nd edition - Reprint of the edition Duderstadt: Mecke 1993 ( ISBN 3-923453-53-1 )
- Heinz Scheible: Georg Sabinus (1508 - 1560): a poet as founding rector . First dr. in: The Albertus University of Königsberg and its professors. Berlin, 1995, pp. 17-31; also in: Melanchthon and the Reformation. Mainz: von Zabern, 1996, pp. [533] - 547
- Max Töppen: The founding of the University of Königsberg and the life of its first Rector Georg Sabinus . Königsberg: Verlag der Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1844
- Johannes Voigt: Communications from the correspondence of Duke Albrecht of Prussia with Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon and Georg Sabinus: an addendum to the correspondence of the most famous scholars of the Reformation with Duke Albrecht of Prussia. Königsberg: Bornträger, 1841
- Georg Ellinger : Sabinus, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 107-111.
- Heinz Scheible, Bernhard Ebneth: Sabinus, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 320 f. ( Digitized version ).
Footnotes
- ^ Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . Vol. 1: From the founding of the city to the last elector . Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 295.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sabinus, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Student, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founding rector of the University of Königsberg, diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1508 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandenburg on the Havel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1560 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt (Oder) |