Georg Sibutus

Georg Sibutus (also: Georg Daripinus Sibutus , * around 1483 in Tannroda ; † after 1528 ) was a German humanist and neo-Latin poet.

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Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. : Georg Sibutus (1509), Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts

Life

Presumably Sibutus was a student of Conrad Celtis in Vienna before he was awarded the poet's crown by Emperor Maximilian at the Reichstag in Cologne , where he also teaches rhetoric at the University of Cologne . In the winter semester of 1505 he switched to the University of Wittenberg , where he took over the professorship for humanistic literature and from 1507 reads alongside Simon Vach on rhetoric. Sibutus belonged to the group of humanists who appeared with writings before Martin Luther's appearance. Like Andreas Meinhardi, he took part in the rhetorical glorification of the reputation of the Wittenberg University. In poetic verses, he glorifies the Wittenberg conditions of that time. In Wittenberg he was in contact with Ulrich von Hutten and Christoph von Scheurl . It is said that he married an 80-year-old woman during his time in Wittenberg in order to secure himself materially.

On July 15, 1520, he entered the registry of the University of Rostock . from 1522 Luther stood up for him. Despite his advocacy of Luther in 1522, Sibutus, as a humanist, remains a representative of Catholic teaching. He turns against the Anabaptists and sets original, playful accents in his poems that extend far beyond the scholasticism of the time.

Works

• Ars memorativa & carmen in vitam S. Andrae , Cologne 1506
• Pangryricus ad Ferdinandum Regem Bohemiae , Leipzig
• Carmen ad Ioannen Fridericum, ducem Saxoniae, pro primo suo aduentu in vrben Albiorenam . Wittenberg 1508
• Torniamenta Fried. & Joh. Ducum Sax. Per Gr. Sibutum decanata , Wittenberg 1511

literature

• Karl Hartfelder:  Sibutus, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 140 f.
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Gerhard Wolf: Sibutus, Georgius. In: Walther Killy (Hrsg.): Literaturlexikon: Authors and works in the German language. 15 volumes. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Vol. 11, p. 26.
• Dark: Historically critical messages from deceased scholars and their writings. III / 1, p. 156, item 2221
• Sibutus, Georg. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 37, Leipzig 1743, column 870.