Gottfried Finckelthaus

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Gottfried Finckelthaus (born February 23, 1614 in Leipzig , † August 4, 1648 in Budissin ) was a German lyric poet and songwriter of the Baroque .

Life

Finckelthaus was the son of the famous Leipzig lawyer Sigismund Finckelthaus , who became the rector's office of the university shortly after Gottfried's birth. At the age of fourteen the gifted boy was enrolled in the law faculty. Other young poets such as Christian Brehme and Paul Fleming were studying in Leipzig at the time and became friends with him. In 1629 he obtained the legal bachelor's degree and in 1633 the master’s degree. In 1639 he moved to Hamburg, where he met Fleming again, and on to the Netherlands to embark for Brazil, from where he was only to return to his Saxon homeland in 1641. After a few years in Leipzig and Dresden, he was finally appointed as Chamber Procurator in Budissin in 1647, where he died in 1648 at the age of only 34. His work consists primarily of secular and spiritual songs, which enjoyed great popularity and had many editions.

Finckelthaus also wrote under the Latinized pseudonym Theopacius Oecolampadius.

Works (selection)

  • Praise and love poems. Leipzig 1635
  • German odes or chants. Leipzig 1638
  • German chants. Hamburg 1640 and so on
  • Funny songs. Lübeck 1645
  • Solomon's Song of Songs. 1966 (Ndr. Of the Leipzig edition 1638)

Literature (selection)

List of works and references

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Gottfried Finckelthaus (1614–1648)", in: Personal bibliographies on the prints of the Baroque , vol. 2. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1990, pp. 1478–83. ISBN 3-7772-9027-0

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personal data
SURNAME Finckelthaus, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oecolampadius, Theopacius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and song writer of the Baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1648
Place of death Budissin