Jakob Klinckebeil

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Jakob Klinckebeil

Jakob Klinckebeil (born April 12, 1627 in Kallies ; † March 8, 1694 ) was a German poet.

Life

Klinckebeil was the son of a city judge, his grandfather was the mayor of Kallies. As a young person he left his homeland, which was deserted by the Thirty Years' War , and acquired a comprehensive education abroad. In 1658 he was the Saxon-Merseburg Salt Authority governor in Guben , but was also known as a poet at that time. Sigmund von Birken had crowned him poet according to the custom of the time.

His most important poetry was the "Devotional Grove or Holy Praise Sounding Grünewald" published in Wittenberg around 1660 . By raising it to the nobility, Klinckebeil should be rewarded for the work and the additional name should have been chosen after the title of this poem.

On February 8, 1661, Jakob Klinckebeil von Grünewald married Marie Sedligk in Spremberg .

At the end of his life, Klinckebeil owned the Grunewald, Großbreesen, Bärenklau , Lübbinchen, Deulowitz and Schmachtenhayn estates as gifts from his sovereign.

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