Johann Christian Keck

Johann Christian Keck (* 1631 in Strasbourg , † 1687 in Durlach ) was a poet and margrave of Baden-Durlach court and church councilor as well as director of the Durlach grammar school and all Latin country schools and the scholarship holders.

Life

Keck was born as the son of Pastor Keck in Strasbourg and learned the Hebrew language at the age of 7. At the age of 16 he disputed under Johann Heinrich Boeckler about "the Celtic or German language" ( de lingua Celtica sive Germanica ).

Also in 1647 he was a respondent in Strasbourg, where he was a law student. He then traveled to Sweden with his teacher Boeckler , and in 1649 greeted Queen Christine in Uppsala with a Latin poem that was printed in Stockholm .

In 1659, Margrave Friedrich V von Baden appointed him first as his secret secretary, later as councilor and Ephorus (director) of the Durlach grammar school and all Latin country schools as well as the scholarship holders.

In Latin eloquence and poetry he is said to have been unsurpassed at the time. He made a name for himself at the Durlacher Hof with solemn poems of praise to people from the von Baden princely family.

In terms of art and antiquity, Johann Christian Keck was next to the Baden steward Johann Elsener von Löwenstern , the painter, engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian the Younger , as well as the French doctor and numismatist Charles Godmother, adviser to Margrave Friedrich VI. who was an avid collector of works of art and antiquities, especially coins and medals. In 1672 Keck dedicated a poem to his godmother.

The philologist , lawyer and pedagogue got into debt through negligence , from which he tried to save himself from the high school's fiscus . Therefore, the resignation of all his offices was suggested to him. According to other opinions, planned changes to his teaching method were the reason why he insultedly asked for his dismissal in 1684 and withdrew to his Schaichhof near Tübingen .

Afterwards, Margrave Friedrich Magnus called him back to Durlach, where he died in 1687.

Most of his manuscripts have been lost. Respected, potential buyers would have offered large sums for it after his death. Intended for printing, Keck had his Preceptor Resch copy it.

His widow had married a country clergyman in the Duchy of Württemberg , and so his poems and manuscripts, including the news about the Durlach grammar school, came from the margraviate of Baden-Durlach . At the time, attempts were made in vain to get them back.

Keck was also on friendly terms with Nikolaus Heinsius . He dedicated a poem to him, which he had printed in Stockholm in memory of his second trip to Italy. The third edition was published in Amsterdam in 1666 .

Works

• Johann Heinrich Boeckler and Johann Christian Keck, Disquisitio historico-philologica de lingua Celtica sive Germanica , Iohannis Andreae, 1647, 13 pages

• Johann Christian Keck and Johann Heinrich Boeckler, In rectoratum sive praefecturam academicam viri Magnif. , 1648

• Johann Christian Keck, Viro Magnifico D. Joanni Wenckero. Cos. Gravissimo. Scholarchae Eminentissimo. Cujus De incluta Argentoratensium Rep. Merita In Eccles. Academiamque Curas: Erga me Summa Beneficia vix memorare nedum extollere & pront merentur celebrare audeo; Vitamin prolixam; Regimen securum , 1648

• Johann Christian Keck, Hecatombe ad Tumulum Viri Domini Tobiae Staedelii COS. Pij, Justi, Felicis, Vindicis Religionis, Scholae, Patriae: qui proprid. Calendar. Feb. to aerae Christianae MDCXLVIII. Mortalitatem beatè exuit , 1648

• Johann Christian Keck, Viris Clarissimis Dn. Dn. Dn. Danieli Pfeiffio, Vito Beringio, Danieli Nesselio , 1648

• Athanasius Kircher, Johann Christian Keck, Daniel Stahl, Johann Heinrich Boeckler, Raphael Custos, Conrad Christoff von Königsmarck, Carl Schmid and Daniel Holeysen, Joanni Wenckero , 1650

• Johann Christian Keck, Johanni Fechtio, jvniori, theologo, philosopho, philologo e paucis excellentissimo, fautori honorando, felices cum nobili florentissimaque virgine Maria Magdalena Obrechtia nuptias gratulatur Jo. Christianus Keck , 1667

• Johann Christian Keck, Thalamus Serenissimis Principibus Friderico Magno Marchioni Badensi et Hochbergensi nec non Augustae Mariae, Slesvici, Holsatiae Sacra Augusto connubio die a venere stratus a Pallade pictus, accenten, feliciter! , 1670

• Charles Patin (MD), Johann Rudolf Wetstein (fils.), Jacob Spon, Ezechiel Spanheim, Frédéric Ulrich Obrecht, Johann Christian Keck, Faber (MD de Heilbron.), Johann Heinrich Boecler, Johann Joachim Bockenhoffer, Heinrich Aveman, Epistola (et Carmen) , 1671

• Johann Christian Keck, Augurium salutis ex seren. et potent. princ. Caroli, comitis Palatini ad Rhenum et Wilhelminae Ernestinae, natae reginae Danicae, auspicatissimo connubio , 1671

• Johann Christian Keck, Maiestas Christianum V. Daniae, Norvegiae ... regem, ac, dominum, Solennibus, Caerimoniis inaugurans , 1671

• Johann Christian Keck, Augurium salutis , 1671

• Johann Christian Keck, Grab-Lied at the burial of Friedrich Magni des Jüngern Marggrafen zu Baden , 1672 ( digitized )

• Johann Christian Keck, Fear and Consolation of Christians, Bey of the Most High-ranking Princess, Princess Annae, Margravine of Baden and Hochberg of Pforzheim The burial was completed on November 1, 1672 . Published by Hake, 1672 ( digitized version)

• Johann Christian Keck, Leich-Gesang, at the sad burial of the boy Philipp Heinrichens, of the Lord Johann Heinrich Obrechte, Fürstl. Marggr. Bath. Rechen-Cammer-Rahts and Landschreiber zu Carlsburg, Hertzliebsten Söhnleins: Which the 11th Martii of the 1672nd year different . Hake, 1672

• Johann Christian Keck, lament song of women Annae Mariae Kueeferin gebohrner Eyselin, about the fatal accession of Mr. Johann Kueefer, world-famous Archiatri , 1675

• Johann Christian Keck, Viri illustris Johannis Kueferi plurimorum summorumque principum consiliarii et archiatri memoriae posthumae hoc carmen consecravit Jo. Christianus Keck , 1675

• Johann Christian Keck, Elegia in obitum Joan. Jacobi Seuberti medicinae doctoris , 1675

• Johann Christian Keck, joy singing on the most luminous princess Charlotta Sophia, margravine of Baden and Hochberg and the high-born count Messrs. Emichs, counts of Leiningen and Rixingen, gentlemen of Westerburg and Schaumburg, the most happy wedding . Hake, 1676

• Johann Christian Keck, Frolockender acclamation from the most luminous princes and lords Carol Gustavens Marggraffens of Baden and Hachberg with the equally luminous princess Anna Sophia, Hertduchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, most happily accomplished marriage , 1677

• Johann Christian Keck, Panegyricus: Honori Et Memoriae Posthumae Serenissimi Excelsissimique Principis Friderici Sexti, Marchionis Badensis Et Hochbergensis , 1677

• Georg Andreas Böckler, Johann Christian Keck and Carl Welßer von Neuhoff, Useful Hauß- und Feld-Schule / That is: How to arrange a country, field, Guth and Meyerey with all its accessories with benefit: Worbey a useful for housekeeping in the country Hauß-Artzney for people and cattle / sampt an everlasting calendar / and all kinds of useful Hauß arts colligated and displayed for the first time with corresponding figures , Nuremberg: Fürst, 1678 (1309 pages)

• Johann Christian Keck, De summo bono commentatio, ad locum insignem Ciceronis Tuscul. quaest. libr. V. cap. XXX, (post mortem) 1781

• Johann Christian Keck, From the reading of young students , (post mortem) printed in Wetzlar by Winkler; Weilburg 1785

• Johann Christian Keck, On the Beneficial Influence of Music on Human Happiness , (post mortem) 1785

• Johann Christian Keck, De arte memoriae antiquis laudata invento inutili imo noxio commentatio , (post mortem) 1787

• Johann Christian Keck, Whether and how far the learning of the Latin language is necessary for an unlearned, but educated and enlightened man? (post mortem) 1791

• Johann Christian Keck, O grosser Gott von Treu , (post mortem) 1801

Individual evidence

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5. ↑ Hans Rott , art and artist at the Baden-Durlacher Hof up to the founding of Karlsruhe , Karlsruhe 1917 ( digitized version )
6. ↑ Short biography of Johann Christian Keck, in: Siegmund Friedrich Gehres : Kleine Chronik von Durlach. A contribution to the customer of German cities and manners , Mannheim 1827, pp. 111–115 ( digitized version ).
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