Georg von Logau

Georg von Logau as a crowned poet (around 1546)

Georg von Logau or Latinized Georgius Logus (* around 1495 Schlaupitz , Duchy of Schweidnitz ; † April 11, 1553 in Breslau ) was a German nobleman , humanist , book lover and neo-Latin poet as well as diplomat.

Life

Like Friedrich von Logau, Georg came from the Silesian noble family Logau . His father was Georg von Logau auf Schlaupitz († 1541). Various information is available about the identity of his mother. After attending the Neiss parish school, he studied with the support of Wroclaw Bishop Johannes V. Thurzo from 1514 at the University of Krakow , where he presumably enrolled as Georgius Georgij de Swednycz and made friends with the humanist Valentin Eck, who came from Lindau. In his honor he published a poem in 1515, which he signed as Georgius Logus Nicence , probably because of his school attendance in Neisse . In 1516 he continued his studies in Vienna , where he met the humanist Caspar Ursinus Velius and joined the literary circle of his teacher Joachim Vadian . With further support from Bishop Thurzo and Vice Chancellor of Bohemia, Georg von Loxan, he studied at the University of Bologna from 1519 to 1521 . There he made friends with the humanist Georg Sauermann (1492–1527), who also came from Silesia , and the later Naumburg bishop Julius von Pflug . He then stayed in Italy until 1525, mostly in Rome, where he met the scholars Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sadoleto and through them came into contact with high ecclesiastical dignitaries. After his return he became secretary of Archduke Ferdinand I , elected King of Bohemia in 1526 , whom he accompanied on his homage trip to Breslau in the spring of 1527. He dedicated a complete edition of his poems to him, which appeared in 1529. In 1530 he traveled with Ferdinand I to the Augsburg Reichstag . In Augsburg he met Anton Fugger , who financed another study trip for him, which from 1531 to 1534 took him to Padua, Rome and Venice, among others. In Padua , which was then a center of the Italian Ciceronians , he was promoted to «Dr. legum »PhD. In 1534/35 he stayed in Vienna at the court of Emperor Charles V , and in 1536 he traveled again to Italy. From 1537 he lived in Breslau; there he worked zealously for the Counter Reformation .

Works (selection)

Poetae tres egregii nunc primum in lucem editi, Gratii […] de inuatione Lib. I, P. Ovidii Nasonis Halieuticon liber acephalus. M. Aurelii Olympii Nemesiani Cynegeticon Lib. I Eiusdem carmen Bucolicum. T. Calphurnii Sivuli Bucolica. Adriani Cardinalis venatio. Steyner, Augsburg 1534 ( digitized ) and Aldus, Venice 1534 ( digitized )
In laudem Catharinae Aquiliae et Ge. Loxani coniugis carmen ; 1534
Threni in obitum Casp. Ursini Velii ; Vienna [Wien] Panonica, 1539
In hoc libello haec insunt. Elegia Ioannis Langi Silesii, de miserabili fato Casparis Ursini Velii Silesii, Poetae Oratoris & Historici Regii ; Vienna 1539
Epigrammata , Krakow 1540
Pontii Paulini viri sanctissimi ... tres psalmi primus, secundus & CXXXVI. in versus mystica interpraetatione adiecta ... redacti. Eiusdem ad Deum precatio matutina. Precatio ad Deum patrem & christianae religionis sanctiones quod Symbolum Apostolorum vocant. Item psalmus LXXXX. in versus hexametros redacta ; Vratislaviae [Breslau], apud Andream Vinglerum, 1561

literature

Heinrich Grimm: Logau, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 117 f. ( Digitized version ).
Heinrich Grimm: New contributions to the "fish literature" of the XV. to XVII. Century and through their printer and bookkeeper. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2871–2887, here: p. 2884.
Gustav Bauch : The humanistic poet George von Logau , in: 73rd Annual Report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture, 3rd Department, Breslau 1895, pp. 5-33

Remarks

↑ According to the family chronicle of Heinrich Wenzel von Logau, it was a von Kottulinsky. The Genealogical Handbook of the Adels, Volume 15, (Adelige Häuser - A (Uradel), Volume 3), Glücksburg 1957, p. 316, follows this information (Margarethe von Kottulinsky). Gustav Eitner, who for his work on the poet Friedrich von Logau was able to look through not only Logau's chronicle but also other documents from the then Breslau State Archives, mentions a mother Margarethe von Rastelwitz (Rasselwitz). Cf. Gustav Eitner: Sinngedichte von Friedrich von Logau, from the series: Kurt Goedeke and Julius Tittmann (eds.), German poets of the 17th century, Volume 3, Leipzig 1870, p. 695.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Logau, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Georgius Logus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Humanist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlaupitz
DATE OF DEATH	April 11, 1553
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] According to the family chronicle of Heinrich Wenzel von Logau, it was a von Kottulinsky. The Genealogical Handbook of the Adels, Volume 15, (Adelige Häuser - A (Uradel), Volume 3), Glücksburg 1957, p. 316, follows this information (Margarethe von Kottulinsky). Gustav Eitner, who for his work on the poet Friedrich von Logau was able to look through not only Logau's chronicle but also other documents from the then Breslau State Archives, mentions a mother Margarethe von Rastelwitz (Rasselwitz). Cf. Gustav Eitner: Sinngedichte von Friedrich von Logau, from the series: Kurt Goedeke and Julius Tittmann (eds.), German poets of the 17th century, Volume 3, Leipzig 1870, p. 695.