Joachim Greff

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Joachim Greff (* around 1510 in Zwickau ; † November 11th  ? 1552 in Roßlau ) was a German educator, Lutheran theologian and Reformation dramatist.

Life

Greff studied Protestant theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1529 and then went to school. So he worked in Halle (Saale) , from 1534 in Magdeburg , then in Dessau and from 1550 he was active as a pastor in Roßlau . Greff was encouraged by Martin Luther to deal with drama and was influenced by neo-Latin poets during his creative period.

In 1535 he translated the Aulularia des Plautus , revised stories by Abraham in 1540 and by Jakob in 1534 , which were performed in Magdeburg at the Schützenhof, with his participation. In his revisions to Susanna in 1534 and to Judith in 1536 , a calm mood of faith can be recognized, which affected the citizens of Central Germany and encouraged them to shape their environment in confessional disputes. Thus he propagated the new Protestant teaching in school dramas.

In the dispute over a theatrical performance, he got involved in a dispute with the Anhalt theologians and received support in this dispute from Philipp Melanchthon and Georg Major , who gave their opinions on it. His morally and religiously instructive pieces presented biblical topics in the then current context, dispensed with staged splendor and concentrated on the message of the event. Greff was instrumental in the development of the Saxon Reformation drama.

Selection of works

  • Mundus, a nice new short game of the world kind and nature . Wittenberg 1537
  • The suffering and resurrection of our Lord Jesus German rhymed . 1538
  • Admonition to the entire German nation, again the Turkish tyrant Wittenberg 1541
  • Tragedia of the book Judith in Deudsche Reim. Wittenberg 1536 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Hans Wittenbrink in Walther Killy ’s Literature Lexicon: Authors and Works in the German Language. (15 volumes) Gütersloh; Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl. 1988–1991 (CD-ROM Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Vol. 4 p. 321
  • Wilhelm Scherer :  Greff, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 624.
  • Wolfgang Stammler:  Greff, Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 18 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Reinhard Buchwald : Joachim Greff; Investigations into the beginnings of the Renaissance drama in Saxony ... , Leipzig, R. Voigtländer, 1907
  • Andrea Seidel: Joachim Greff and the Protestant Drama, 1994
  • Andrea Seidel: The literary effect of Joachim Greffs, in: Von der wyßheit der Mensch geert, Festschrift for Manfred Lemmer for his 65th birthday, ed. by Ingrid Kühn and Gotthard Lerchner, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1993, pp. 227–240.
  • Andrea Seidel: Joachim Greff. Dramatists in the service of the Reformation, in: Werner Freitag (ed.), Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Menschen im Zeitalter der Reformation, Böhlau Verlag Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2004, pp. 11–31.
  • Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's Correspondence People Volume 12

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personal data
SURNAME Greff, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, Lutheran theologian and Reformation dramatist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH around November 11, 1552
Place of death Rosslau