Johann Butow

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Johann Bütow , Latinized Johannes Butovius (* around 1565 in Treptow an der Rega in Western Pomerania , † after 1626) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and writer .

Bütow lived in Pomerania . From 1589 to 1613 he was pastor in Körlin , from 1613 to 1618 court preacher in Köslin and then court preacher at the castle church in Stettin . In Stettin he gave a funeral sermon for Duke Franz von Pomerania-Stettin in 1620 , which was published in 1621.

In 1600 Bütow wrote a German-language drama Comoedia de nuptiali contractu Isaaci, that is Heyraths mirror, in which ... all journeymen and virgins are shown how they should prepare for a godly marriage . Here he combined the story about Isaac from the Old Testament with a peasant marriage story , which is presented in Low German with great natural truth, scolding and beating . The bully scenes from the drama similar to those in the later Jochim Schlu published Comedia of the pious, and obedient gottfürchtigen Isaac (Rostock 1606).

Fonts (selection)

  • Comoedia de nuptiali contractu Isaaci, that is Heyraths mirror, in which ... all journeymen and virgins are shown how they should prepare for a godly marriage. Old Szczecin 1600.
  • Encomium pacis. 1614.
  • Eight Christian sermons. 1617.
  • Sermons of honor and consolation. 1618.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. Pinder and D. Brandes: Scientific directories of the writings on Prussian history available in the Royal Library in Berlin (form). Berlin 1837, p. 6, no.108 .
  2. ^ Karl Ludwig Friedrich Gädecke: Outline of German poetry from the sources. Volume 1. Dresden 1862, p. 329, no.343 .
  3. ↑ Adolf Hofmeister :  Schlu, Jochim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 603 f.
personal data
SURNAME Butow, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butovius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1565
PLACE OF BIRTH Treptow at Rega
DATE OF DEATH after 1626