Jakob Zanach

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Jakob Zanach (also Zannach) was a German Lutheran writer and publisher . He lived in Bautzen at the beginning of the 17th century .

Publications

As a bookseller in Zerbst , he published a theological bibliography in 1591 - erroneously known as the first specialist bibliography ever - and in 1606 a bibliography of Bible commentaries. His main works are the "Historischen Erquick hours " (4 parts in 5 octave volumes, Leipzig 1609 to approx. 1618; published repeatedly until 1628; his "Regenten oder Kayser-Chronica bit auff K. Matthiam I." ) published under the pseudonym Didacus Apoliphtes Lusatus integrated into this work). The first volume, whose foreword to Lübben an der Spree was signed on September 1, 1609, reminds us explicitly of the Italian Lodovico Guicciardini through the addition to the title “L'hore de recreation” , but Zanach is closer to a group of Protestants that has so far been neglected Theologians who, partly based on Luther's table speeches, partly also based on medieval example literature, put together stories from the Bible, classical antiquity and modern times as examples of individual doctrines or human conditions, such as Johannes Gast , Joannes Manlius , Andreas Hondorff , Wolfgang Bütner , Zacharias Rivander , Samuel Meiger and Michael Sachs .

According to his information, which is difficult to control, Zanach's work initially contains 1500 histories (1609) and 2100 later (1624). In the first three parts, which deal with state and family life and the alternation of happiness and unhappiness, the author restricts himself to dry excerpts from historical works; only in the two volumes of the fourth part, which is based on the popular principle of division of the ten commandments, does he also turn to novellas and fluctuations in which the presentation becomes more lively and colorful. A fifth part, which according to the original plan was to bring biblical stories from the Old and New Testament, does not seem to have been printed.

Works

  • Jacob Zannachius: BIBLIOTHECA THEOLOGICA, siúe CATALOGVS TAM AVCTORVM, QVI IN SACROS BIBLICOS LIBROS VETERIS ET noui Testamenti in hunc vsq [ue] annum scripserunt, quàm Bibliothèrum, quarodca Auneres non-exumant. 83, etiam ex Catalogis Nundinarum Francofurdensium, qui from anno 1583. in lucem prodierunt, collectus, & plus septuaginta Autoribus recentioribus plurimùm auctus, vt vicè supplementi haberi possit: atq [ue] in commune Christianorum commodum diuulgatus. OPVSCULVM NON BIBLIOTHECIS TANTVM PVBLICIS PRIVATISVE INSTItuendis necessarium, sed & studiosis sacræ Theologiæ & pietatis ad studia melius formanda, maximè vtilissimum & pernecessarium. COLLECTUM A IACOBO ZANNAchio Lubenensi, Mühlhausen (MVLHVSII): Andreas Hantzsch 1591
  • Jacobus Zanachius: Elenchus Alphabeticus. AVTORVM ET SCRIPTORVM, QVI IN SACROSANCTOS LIBROS BIBLICOS, VSque in hunc annum commentati sunt, studiosis Sacrosancto [sic] Theologiæ & pietatis, nec [sic] primis [sic] verò [concionatoribus, maximè utiles] [conficjus] & a] Jacobo Zanachio Bibliopola Servestano, Zerbst (Servestæ): o. Dr. 1606

literature

  • Johannes Bolte:  Zanach, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 679.
  • Jürgen Beyer: Zan (n) ach, Jacob. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Concise dictionary for historical and comparative narrative research , Vol. 14, Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2014, Col. 1137–1140

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personal data
SURNAME Zanach, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Didacus Apoliphtes Lusatus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Lutheran writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century