Johann Aurpach

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Johann Aurpach (nickname Altanus "Aichacher", according to the place of birth; born on February 5, 1531 in Niederalteich ; died 1582 ) was a German poet and lawyer.

Aurpach was the son of a farmer, his mother Anna, geb. Strasser, was the daughter of a councilor in Wasserburg. After attending the School of the Benedictine Niederaltaich studied Aurpach from 1549 in Ingolstadt , Padua and from 1560 and 1562 in France in Angers , Paris and Orléans , where he in April 1562 Doctor juris doctorate.

In 1562 he found his first job in Landshut, from 1563 to 1565 he was in the service of the Bavarian Duke Albrecht , where he was also involved in the legal disputes in connection with the so-called Ortenburg aristocratic conspiracy . From 1567 he was a lawyer at the court of Regensburg Bishop David Kölderer von Burgstall . In 1570 he became the prince-bishop's chancellor. After Kölderer's death in 1579, he resigned, probably also for health reasons.

The then twenty-year-old first emerged as a poet in 1554 with his Poematum libri quatuor , a collection of neo-Latin poems divided into four books (Elegiae, Funera, Epigrammata, Lyrica) . Another collection of poems was created during his time in Padua at the suggestion of his friend Petrus Lotichius Secundus , when he had withdrawn to the small town of Arsego outside the city because of an outbreak of the plague. The subjects of the poems are friendship, nature, devotion to poetry, love and religion. A significant portion makes up addressed to friends Aurpachs occasional poetry from.

In the 1570 collection of odes based on the example of the ancient Anakreonteia in iambic dimensions without stanzas , a genre-specific celebration of hedonistic joie de vivre takes a back seat to the portrayal of private life and relaxed conviviality among friends. Topics are the birthday of the son, the death of the daughter, the help of the wife and the longing for domestic peace, quiet and literary muse. The volume is also noteworthy as the only collection of Neo-Latin poetry that has been completely translated into German, namely in 1583 by Ingolstadt professor Johann Engerd in a bilingual edition.

Finally, Aurpach's “legal letters” should be mentioned, which contain numerous details from his sometimes long journeys. A first edition appeared in 1566, and another six volume collection was published by his son Hieronymus in 1606. This Hieronymus Aurpach became episcopal chancellor in Freising , Aurpach's grandson Johann Gundackher von Aurpach already held the title of nobility and was director of the court chamber in Munich.

Works

  • Poematum libri quatuor. Augsburg 1554.
  • Altani poematum libri duo. Padua 1557.
  • Anacreonticorum Odae. Munich 1570.
    • Translation into German by Johann Engerd: Odae Anacreonticorvm; that is, artificially poetic singing and songs ... Latin and German. Eder, Ingolstadt 1583.
  • Iter Patavinum, ex Germania in Italiam. In: Hodoeporicorum Libri VII. Ed. Nikolaus Reusner. Basel 1580, pp. 273-296.
  • Epistolarum juridicarum, quae consiliorum vice esse possunt, Libri IIII. Cologne 1566.
  • Singularium allegationum ad communem rerum usum accomodatarum. Cologne. 1571.
  • Epistolarum juridicarum. 6 volumes. Edited by Hieronymus Aurpach. Ingolstadt 1606.

literature

  • Georg Ellinger: History of the neo-Latin literature in Germany in the 16th century. Berlin & Leipzig 1929, reprint De Gruyter, Berline 1969. Vol. 2. pp. 210-224.
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann : Aurpach, Johann. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann u. a. (Ed.): Author's Lexicon - Early Modern Times in Germany 1520-1620. Vol. 1. De Gruyter, Berlin & Boston 2011.
  • Theodor Muther:  Aurpach, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 692.
  • Hans Pörnbacher: Aurpach, Johann. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 262 f.
  • Karl von Reinhardstöttner : To the Gesch. of humanism and erudition in Munich under Albrecht the Fifth. In: Jahrbuch für Münchener Geschichte 4 (1890), pp. 45–174, esp. 87–96 u. 150-152.
  • Ulrich Thürauf:  Aurpach, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 457 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Georg Westermayer : Johann Aurpach, a Bavarian humanist. In: Historoiscj -politische Blätter für das Catholic Deutschland 100 (1887), pp. 489–504.

Remarks

  1. ^ Matriculation May 16, 1549 as pauper
  2. ↑ Today the district of San Giorgio delle Pertiche .
  3. ↑ In 1554 a first edition of the Greek text with Latin translations was published.
personal data
SURNAME Aurpach, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aurpach, Johannes; Aurpachius, Altanus; Aurpachius, Ioannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1531
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederaltaich
DATE OF DEATH 1582