Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus
Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus , pseudonym Amaranthes (born May 15, 1677 in Leipzig ; † January 27, 1747 ibid) was a German lawyer and writer.
Life
Corvinus spent his entire life in Leipzig. In accordance with the curious custom that was common at the University of Leipzig at the time, he was enrolled in the law faculty as a child. Since his father was a university official as an actuary, he enjoyed freedom of study. Among his fellow students, he was close friends with Georg Christian Lehms , whose poems he later published. After completing his studies, he stayed in his hometown. As an imperial notary and lawyer, he had only modest income, but at least he could afford to refuse the honorable appointment as Saxon court poet in Dresden. He died in Leipzig at the age of 68.
plant
Corvinus' first publication under the pseudonym Amaranthes (the imperishable) were the rehearsals of poetry in poetry in gallant, amorous, joke and satyrical poems in 1710/11 . The edition was confiscated on September 19, 1712, and permission to reprint was granted on November 4 of the same year on condition that objectionable parts were erased. On November 28, however, the confiscation was ordered again and Corvinus was sentenced to six weeks in prison. A third anthology of poems under the title Reiffere Frucht followed in 1720.
In the same year, under his pseudonym, Das Carneval der Liebe or The Cupid, who envelops himself in all kinds of masques, was discovered in a [!] True romance of the curious world (Johann Christian Martini, Leipzig 1712) - a satirical novel of love affairs among students who up to on the last catastrophic ending (why the last one ends better remains part of the satire, those involved hardly deserve a better ending).
Amaranthes made a name for himself with his useful, gallant and curious lexicon for women ( Johann Friedrich Gleditsch & Sohn, Leipzig 1715), a work of over 1,000 pages that illuminates all areas of female life with tremendous curiosity. The review of the German Acta Eruditorum noted it as a peculiarity that even things are explained here that everyone knows from everyday life. Thanks to this "curious" circumstance, the book is one of the most important sources today to be able to understand life in a middle-class household in the early 18th century in all its practical details (from cleaning the floor to the kitchen).
literature
- Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus: Useful, gallant and curious women's lexicon. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1715. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus (1677–1746) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 2. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9027-0 , pp. 977-982 (list of works and literature)
- Lathrop P. Johnson: The Poetry of Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus. A study of gallant poetry in the early eighteenth century . Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 1972
- Manfred Lemmer: Epilogue to the new edition of the Frauenzimmer-Lexicon . Insel, Leipzig 1980, pp. 8-9
- Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or the novel before it became literature . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2001, ISBN 90-420-1226-9 , pp. 298-310 (for the Carneval of Love )
- Georg Witkowski: History of literary life in Leipzig . Berlin u. Leipzig 1909, pp. 287-292
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Digitized prints by Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
- Works by Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus at Zeno.org .
- Genealogy FactGrid Item: Q22717
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corvinus, Gottlieb Siegmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amaranthes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1677 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1747 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |