Joachim Cimdarsius

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Joachim Cimdarsius (also: Zymdarsch, Zimdarsius etc .; born June 1, 1553 in Greifswald ; † February 10, 1618 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German poet.

Life

The son of the Greifswald professor of poetry, Petrus Cimdar , was enrolled at the University of Greifswald on April 6, 1569 . After completing his studies, he became rector of the Holstein school in Rendsburg in 1576. At that time he was noticed by the Danish king as a poet through a Carmen, for which he received 30 thalers. In 1578 he moved to East Prussia, where on April 7, 1579 he acquired the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy at the University of Königsberg .

In 1580 he became a teacher at the pedagogy in Königsberg, which he had headed as an archipagogue from 1586. In 1582 he was appointed professor of poetry at the University of Königsberg . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters 1605, 1613 and 1617 . He wrote a poetic course vitae . He also wrote the works Elegia de puero bifonte (1581), De fabulis sive fictionibus poetarum and Postarum illustrium Satyrae, et Epigrammata greca et latina in Joachim Cimdarsum archipaedagoam in Borussia, poetices calumniatorem Tremoniae (1589). A copper engraving from 1588 depicts him.

From 1586 he was married to Elisabeth (* 1551; † April 30, 1613), daughter of the citizen in Kneiphof Leonard Wegner and his wife Klara Möller, widow of the Kneiphof citizen Peter Neusal.

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 401, line 3
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, p. 123,
  • Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 9783412201715 , p. 59
  • Cimdarsus, Joach .. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 06, Leipzig 1733, column 55.
  • Mohnike: Dr. Johann Bugenhagen's death, surviving relatives and a few other relatives. In: Baltic Studies. Verlag Friedrich Heinrich Morin, Stettin, 1832, p. 169, ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Erler: Older university registers. II. University of Greifswald. 1st volume Verlag Hirzel, Leipzig, 1893
  2. ↑ Christian Bruun, Oluf August Nielsen, Anton Ludvig William Petersen: Danske samlinger for Historie, Topographi, Personal- og Literaturhistorie. Verlag F. Hegel, Copenhagen, 1865-66, 1st vol., P. 94, ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Cimdarsius, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zymdarsch; Zimdarsius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1553
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1618
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)