Jacob Micyllus

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Jacob Micyllus

Jakob Micyllus , Latinized from Jakob Moltzer (born April 6, 1503 in Strasbourg , † January 28, 1558 in Heidelberg ), was a German humanist , poet and educator . He headed the municipal Latin school in Frankfurt am Main and was a professor in Heidelberg who mainly dealt with historical studies.

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Micyllus studied in Erfurt from 1518 to 1522, among others with Helius Eobanus Hessus , whose circle of humanists he joined as well as the efforts of Luther. At the end of 1522 he went to Wittenberg and became a student of the reformer Philipp Melanchthon . In 1524, at the age of 21, he took up his post as rector of the Latin school in Frankfurt, which had been founded a few years earlier, where he worked as a teacher. The councilor and patrician Hamman von Holzhausen , whose son Justinian also studied in Wittenberg, had appointed Micyllus on the recommendation of Melanchthon. Micyllus' students included Petrus Lotichius Secundus .

The first years of his rectorate were very successful. After the Frankfurt guild uprising in 1525, however, a radical trend developed in the citizenry, which was fanned by the Reformation preachers Dionysius Melander and Johann Bernhard called Algesheimer, appointed by the council . They not only turned against the clergy of the city, which was represented by the imperial monastery of St. Bartholomew , but also urged the council, which was dominated by a few patrician families, to adopt a more energetic policy towards the Archbishopric of Mainz , which rejected any change in church conditions.

Micyllus felt uncomfortable in this atmosphere. It is not clear whether he was a Lutheran and was therefore in confessional opposition to the more Zwinglian- oriented preachers, or whether, as a humanist, he was not interested in theological issues. In any case, at the beginning of 1532 he wrote a poem against Ulrich Zwingli, who had recently died . As a result, the public opinion of the city, influenced by Melander and Algesheimer, turned against him. The council, in which his patron Holzhausen had an influential position, at least gave him enough time to look for a new job. On January 18, 1533 Micyllus was appointed to a professorship in Heidelberg.

In Frankfurt, however, the situation soon changed again. In 1533 the council suspended the Catholic worship service, thereby complying with the will of the people. At the same time, however, he succeeded in isolating and recalling the radical preachers. In the council and in the population, the moderate forces gained the upper hand, and in 1536 the city joined the Narrow Kaldic League and thus the Augsburg Confession .

Shortly afterwards, Micyllus was called back to Frankfurt as the principal of the Latin School. His salary was increased from 60 guilders to 150 guilders a year. During his second rectorate, the Frankfurt Latin School finally established itself. She was housed in the former barefoot monastery in 1542 .

In 1547, however, Micyllus left Frankfurt again and followed a second call to Heidelberg as professor of Greek language and literature , where he reworked the statutes of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1550 and was rector of the university in 1556. He died there on January 28, 1558. His son, the lawyer Julius Micyllus (approx. 1530 to 1600), published his father's Latin poems under the title Argentoratensis Sylvarum [...] in 1564 . Julius Micyllus was Chancellor of the Electorate of the Palatinate in Zweibrücken from 1582 to 1584 , then Councilor and Chancellor in Hohenlohe-Weikersheim in 1586 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Jacobi Micylli hodoeporicon: Epicedion Mosellani. Epicedion Neseni. Et pleraque alia dignissima . Klug, Wittembergae 1527 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Varia epigrammata graco & latina & alia carmina graca, Basel 1538
  • Sylva variorum carminum
  • Commentataria in Homerum, Basel 1541
  • Annotationes in Joh.Bocatii genealogiam Deorum, Basel 1532
  • Scholta ad Marialis obscuriores aliquot locos
  • Ratio examinandorum versuum
  • Calendarium
  • Carmen elegiacum de ruina arcis Heidelbergensis, quae facta est 1537
  • Annotationes in Ovidium, & in Lucanum
  • Arithmetica logistica
  • Euripidis vita, Basel 1558
  • De Tragaedia & ejus portibus
  • Traductio aliquoe operum Luciani cum scholiis
  • Annotationes in Euripidem, Basel 1562
  • Urbis Francofurdi gratulatio ad Caronum, Leipzig 1530

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  1. ↑ Also called Molshem , Molseym and Molsheym .
personal data
SURNAME Micyllus, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molsheim, Jacob (named); Moltzer, Jacob (real name); Micyllus, Jacob; Molshem, Jakob; Molseym, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Humanist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1503
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1558
Place of death Heidelberg , Germany