Jakob Gretser

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Jakob Gretser S.J. (* March 27, 1562 in Markdorf ; † January 29, 1625 in Ingolstadt ) was an influential Latin philologist , historian, playwright and polemicist of the Counter Reformation in Germany.

Jakob Gretser was the son of the Markdorf mayor. From 1576 he attended the Jesuit seminary in Innsbruck, where he was accepted into the order in 1578. After teaching at short notice in Landsberg and Pont-à-Mousson , he was transferred to the Munich Jesuit high school in 1580. Via Freiburg im Üechtland in 1584 he reached Ingolstadt for the first time in 1586 , where he obtained a master's degree in philosophy in 1588. In 1589 he was ordained a priest there and was a theological student of Gregory of Valencia (1549-1603), whose chair of scholasticism he took over in 1592. Before that he had held a professorship for metaphysics since 1588 . In 1601 he accompanied Albert Hunger to the Regensburg Religious Discussion . From 1605 to 1609 Gretser was released so that he could devote himself entirely to the counter-Reformation struggle with the pen. From 1609 he was again involved in university teaching as a professor of morality . From 1616 onwards, the focus was again on publishing in the service of the Counter Reformation.

Gretser wrote more than a hundred Latin works in a wide variety of fields, especially in philology and church history. He translated and edited Greek authors, published a Greek grammar, wrote 23 Latin school dramas and made significant contributions to the literature of the Counter Reformation. Almost all of his Counter-Reformation writings were translated into popular Bavarian by his friar Conrad Vetter .

Gretser died in Ingolstadt in 1625 at the age of 63.

Editions and translations

  • Rudimenta Linguae Graecae, ex Primo Libro Institutionum. Jacobi Gretseri Societatis Jesu. [...]. Formis Academicis, Dillingen (printed by Ignaz Mayer) 1657.
  • Sonja Fielitz (Ed.): Jakob Gretser, Timon. Comoedia imitata (1584). First edition of Gretser's Timon drama with translation and a discussion of his position on Shakespeare's Timon of Athens. Fink, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7705-2917-0
  • Dorothea Weber (ed.): Augustinus conversus. A drama by Jakob Gretser. Introduction, text, translation and commentary. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2878-9 (critical edition)

literature

  • Karl Bosl: Bosl's Bavarian biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries , Regensburg 1983, p. 273.
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Jacob Gretser SJ (1562–1625) , in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 3, Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 1759–1824 (list of works and references)
  • Anton Dürrwächter: Jacob Gretser and his dramas. Freiburg / B. 1912. Digitized
  • Heidy Greco-Kaufmann: Jakob Gretser . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 751.
  • Leopold Gusenbauer: Jakob Gretser and his <Regnum Humanitatis>. Diss. Vienna 1954
  • Leonhard Lenk:  Gretser, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 51-53 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Mack: The religious customs in the literature of Jakob Gretsers. Dissertation Freiburg / B. 1949

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt: Doctor Doctorum - On the 400th anniversary of the death of Gregory of Valencia (by Gerd Bäumen )
  2. ^ Georg Westermayer :  Hunger, Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 413 f.
  3. ^ Leonhard Lenk:  Gretser, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 51-53 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Gretser, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latin philologist, historian, playwright and author of the Counter Reformation in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1562
PLACE OF BIRTH Markdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1625
Place of death Ingolstadt