Helius Eobanus Hessus

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Eobanus Hessus in a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer
Memorial plaque for Hessus in the inner courtyard of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Erfurt

Helius Eobanus Hessus - actually probably Eoban Koch - (born January 6, 1488 in Halgehausen , † October 4, 1540 in Marburg ) was a Protestant humanist in Erfurt. He is considered one of the greatest neo-Latin poets of his time.

Life

His original name was probably Eoban Koch . Later he changed the family name to Hessus and added the additional first name Helius, alluding to his birth on a Sunday and the god of poets . In the register of the University of Erfurt , however, he entered under the name Eobanus coci Francobergius , because he had attended a Latin school in Frankenberg an der Eder , where the chronicler Wigand Gerstenberg and the doctor and botanist Euricius Cordus also studied. He also received his education in the monastery Haina and in Gemünden an der Wohra .

From 1504 he studied Latin at the University of Erfurt. In 1507 he received the rectorate at the Severischule there. Two years later he gave up this office and went to Riesenburg . Here he worked as clerk and occasional poet for Bishop Hiob von Dobenck . In 1513 he began to study law in Frankfurt an der Oder and shortly afterwards went to Leipzig , where he returned to humanistic studies. In August 1514 he returned to Erfurt , worked in the Erfurt humanist circle, among other things, on the letters of the dark men and took over the professorship for the Latin language at the university. From 1526 he taught rhetoric and poetics at the Aegidianum in Nuremberg . From 1536 he was finally a professor in Marburg . He also wrote occasional poems and poetic letters from Christian heroines.

Eobanus Hessus was the leading head of the important Erfurt humanist group in the Castel Sant'Angelo (in today's Allerheiligenstrasse in Erfurt) around 1520. The humanist group networked there consolidated after 1505, and in June of the same year Luther entered the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt a.

From the ranks of the Erfurt humanists, such as Crotus Rubeanus , important parts of the famous dark man's letters (1515–1517) were created in the Castel Sant'Angelo, as described above . The dark man's letters, Epistolae obscurorum virorum, were a satire with which German humanists vilified scholasticism .

Works

reception

Martin Luther called him the "most famous poet of the time, the pious and pure singer" .

In Albert Lortzing's opera Hans Sachs , the antagonist of the title hero is Eoban Hesse.

The Eobanus Hessus Prize was named after Hessus . It is published by the city of Erfurt .

literature

Web links

Commons : Helius Eobanus Hessus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the life and work of the poet king. In: Frankenberger Zeitung . June 10, 2013, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Great poet with native roots. In: Frankenberger Zeitung . July 2, 2013, accessed July 3, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Eobanus Hessus Prize. (No longer available online.) In: hessus.eburg.de. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008 ; Retrieved January 13, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hessus.eburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Hessus, Helius Eobanus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Eoban (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant humanist and neo-Latin poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1488
PLACE OF BIRTH Halgehausen
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1540
Place of death Marburg