Jacob Schwieger

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Jacob Schwieger (* 1629? In Altona ; † around December 1663? In Glückstadt ) was a North German lyric poet and shepherd poet of the Baroque period .

Life

The living conditions of this extremely talented and productive baroque lyricist and pastoral poet are still largely shrouded in darkness. The son of a mint master, he was born in Altona around 1629. He spent his school days in Glückstadt, where his father later ran the mint. His student days seem to have been quite sporadic. In 1646 he is mentioned as a theology student, but it was not until March 14, 1650 that he enrolled in Wittenberg , where he apparently heard poetry and rhetoric from August Buchner , but in 1654 he was still a "student of philosophy".

In 1654 Philipp von Zesen accepted him as "the fugitive" in the German-minded cooperative , admittedly not to the delight of Johann Rist , who described this group as a circle of different loose guys . Nevertheless, he could not avoid adding the talented poet to his own order of the Elbe Swans later under the name <Philosophander> . In contrast to the courtly pastoral poems abroad, the German sheep- in-law always aimed at an extremely petty bourgeois audience.

Following in his father's footsteps, Schwieger succeeded in receiving the appointment of mint master of Glückstadt from the Danish king in 1657. He probably died here towards the end of 1663, as a new mint master was introduced the following January.

Works (selection)

  • Love grilling, that is, pleasure and love, joke and honor songs. 2 parts of Hamburg 1654–56
  • Overwriting, that's Kurtze poems. Stade 1654 (epigrams)
  • The fleeting field roses. (Songs with notes by Johann Schop )
  • Funny pleasure chamber. Stade 1655 (poems)
  • The desire to change. Hamburg 1656 (poems)
  • Adeliche Rose. Glückstadt 1659 (shepherd poem)
  • Laughed Venus for the love of virtue. Glückstadt 1659 (shepherd poem)
  • The seduced shepherdess Cynthie. Glückstadt 1660

Literature (selection)

  • Alexander Reifferscheid : In  -law, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 443-447.
  • EG Carnap: The shepherdess in the German literature of the 17th century and the shepherd poetry of Europe. Diss. Frankfurt / M. 1939
  • Klaus Garber: Petrarquisme pastoral et bourgeoisie protestante: La poésie pastorale de Johann Rist et Jacob Schwieger , in: Le genre pastorale ... du XVe au XVIIe siècle. Acte du colloque international St. Etienne , St. Etienne 1980, pp. 269-297
  • Dieter Lohmeyer: Jacob Schwieger , in: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon , 4 (1976), 210–212
  • Karen Unsicker: Secular baroque prose in Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974, pp. 233-250

See also: Shepherd seal

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personal data
SURNAME In law, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and shepherd poet of the Baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH around 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH around December 1663
Place of death Glückstadt