Hermann Trebelius

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Hermann Trebelius (* around 1475 in Eisenach or Nazza ; † after 1515 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German poet and printer . His so-called “plague poem” from 1506 is considered the first printed product from Eisenach.

Life

Trebelius' father Johann Syrwynt was probably councilor of Eisenach. Only after 1500 did the family take the name Trebelius. From 1500 Hermann Trebelius attended the University of Erfurt and came into contact with Nicolaus Marschalk . Presumably as a printer's assistant, Trebelius went with Marschalk to Wittenberg in 1502 , where they ran a printing company together. At the University of Wittenberg , Trebelius a. a. Greek . After Marschalk left Wittenberg in 1504, Trebelius got into a dispute with the humanist Georg Sibutus . After the university was relocated to Herzberg an der Elster because of the plague in 1506 , Trebelius went to Eisenach. There his son Elias fell victim to the plague, after which he wrote and printed the elegy Hecatostichon Elegiacum de Peste Isenachensi . The work is also known as a "plague poem". At the end of 1506 he handed over his printing company to Wolfgang Stürmer.

At a ceremony in Wittenberg in 1507 Frederick the Wise gave him the poet's laurel on the recommendation of Mutianus Rufus . After his return to Eisenach, he taught at the Eisenach Latin School. After hostility he went in 1508 via Gotha to Frankfurt / Oder to where poetry to teach and continue Jura study. After initial problems with the university's chancellor , Bishop Dietrich von Bülow , he, like Ulrich von Hutten and Johannes Aesticampianus , was able to win Eitelwolf vom Stein as a sponsor. From around 1514 Trebelius is said to have taught civil law in Frankfurt / Oder . He died after 1515.

Act

During his time in Wittenberg, he printed numerous literary works, which he did not, however, provide with dates. Only his edition of the Sermones extraordinarii by Petrus von Ravenna bears the note that it was printed by Trebelius in Wittenberg in 1505. His "plague poem" Hecatostichon Elegiacum de Peste Isenachensi, printed in Eisenach in 1506, was the first printed work ever to be produced in Eisenach and was to remain the only one for over 100 years. After selling the printer, Trebelius devoted himself to poetry in addition to teaching. Some collections of poetry appeared, e. B. 1509 Epigrammaton et carminum liber primus . Around 1511 he wrote the lost anti-Jewish text Pirae Marchiticae de perfidia Judaeorum Berlini crematorum about the Berlin Jewish trial , which was printed by Johann Hanau .

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personal data
SURNAME Trebelius, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Syrwynt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and printer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1475
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach or Nazza
DATE OF DEATH after 1515
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)