Johannes Bock
Johannes Bock (or Hans Bock ; Lower Sorbian Jan Bok , Latinized Ioannes Bocatius , born December 25, 1569 in Vetschau , † November 12, 1621 in Uherský Brod ) was a Lower Sorbian poet, diplomat and educator .
Life
Bock was born as the son of the Vetschauer businessman Peter Bock and studied in Dresden and Wittenberg . His teacher in Wittenberg was Caspar Peucer , Bautzner polyhistor , elector's personal physician and son-in-law of Philipp Melanchthon .
Bock then worked in Preschau and Kaschau . In Kaschau he took over the management of the evangelical school in 1599, and in 1604 he became city judge. He worked as a diplomat for the Hungarian-Transylvanian Count István Bocskai . Emperor Rudolf II sentenced him to several years imprisonment in Prague .
Hans Bock is counted among the most important poets of his time. He had the imperial title Poeta laureatus ceasareus , which means as much as crowned poet .
Honors
There are commemorative plaques for Hans Bock at the Wendish-German double church in Vetschau and Košice. In 2013 a commemorative event of the Federal Union of European National Minorities (FUEN) was held in honor of Johannes Bocatius in the Košice City Library that bears his name .
Fonts
- «Celadon. Ecloga… Bartphae » , Erzsébetet 1594;
- "Ungaria gratulans ser principi ac domino Maximiliano archiduci Austriaco… cum partes Ungariae Superioris ingreditur" . Bártfa, 1595;
- «Elegiae duae. Altera M. Joannis Bocatii PL altera P. Joannis Balogi Th. Amincis lectoribus exhibendae » , Bártfa, 1595;
- "Oratio de profanitate Turcicae religionis, deque rebellionis maledicti regni initiis et incrementis" . Wittenberg, 1596;
- "Siracides vel Ecclesiasticus Jesu, filii Sirach, Paraeneses ad vitam bene beateque transigendam in locos communes redactae et versibus elegiacis redditae" . 1596;
- "Castra temperantiae" . Bártfa, 1597;
- «Musae parentales. U. ott » , 1598;
- «Munus Judiciale. U. ott » , 1598;
- «Novus Annus. U. ott » . 1599;
- "Hungaridos libri poematum" , Bártfa, 1599;
- «Commentatio epistolica de legatione sua ad Stephanum Bocskay. Transilvaniae principem, et suscepta cum eo anno » , 1605;
- "Olympias Carceraria" , 1611;
- «Salamon Hungaricus vel de Mathiae Corvini, potentissimi ac felicissimi… Hungariae regis… dictis. Cassoviae » . 1611;
- «Militia S. Georgii. U. ott » . 1612;
- "Hebdomelodia Psalmi 103. U. Ott" , 1614;
- «Anser nuptialis. U. Ott » , 1618;
- «Historia Parasceve. U. Ott » , 1621.
Text output
- Ferenc Csonka (Ed.): Ioannes Bocatius: Opera quae extant omnia. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1990–1992 (critical edition)
- Poetica , 2 volumes, 1990, ISBN 963-05-5377-5 and ISBN 963-05-5378-3
- Prosaica , 1992, ISBN 963-77-1922-9
literature
- Doris Teichmann : Johannes Bock-Bocatius (1569-1621) - Sorabus Lusatus . In: Lětopis . Volume 52, Issue 1. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2005. pp. 48–73.
- Doris Teichmann: Mag. Johannes Bock - Bocatius - Sorabus - Lusatus - Vetschoviensis. In: Studies on the history and culture of Niederlausitz in the 16th and 17th centuries. Source historical investigations. Writings of the Sorbian Institute / Spisy Serbskeho Instituta, Vol. 16; Domowina-Verlag Bautzen 1998.
- Madlena Norberg: Johannes Bocatius - a poet with German tongue. In: Potsdam contributions to Sorabistics. Volume 1. 2000. pp. 59-71. ( pdf )
- Peter Kosta: On the Latin poetry of Johannes Bocatius . In: Potsdam contributions to Sorabistics. Volume 1. 2000. pp. 48–58 ( pdf )
Web links
- Doris Teichmann: Great story and a Vetschauer in the middle. Johannes Bocatius Domowina-Verlag 2013 (pdf, German, Lower Sorbian, Slovak) very detailed
- Johannes Bocatius Literary Colloquium Berlin
- Klaus Lischewsky: Thinking of Vetschauer Hans Bock Lausitzer Rundschau from December 23, 2009
- Works by Bocatius, Ioannes in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Košice City Library website: Ján Bocatius (in Slovak) (accessed July 10, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Bocatius honored in Košice (accessed on July 10, 2017)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bock, Johannes |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bock, Hans; Bok, Jan (Sorbian); Bocatius, Ioannes (Latin); Bocatius János (Hungarian); Bocatius, Jan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lower Sorbian poet, diplomat and educator |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1569 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vetschau / Spreewald |
DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1621 |
Place of death | Uherský Brod |