Johann Fischart

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Johann Baptist Friedrich Fischart , called Mentzer (ie "Mainzer" after his father's origin; *  1546 or 1547 in Strasbourg , †  1591 in Forbach ), was an early New High German writer and poet.

Life and work

Fischart attended the Latin school in Worms and then studied at the University of Tübingen . From 1566 he traveled to Flanders and Paris . From 1570 he was back in Strasbourg, where most of his works were published by his brother-in-law Bernhard Jobin's publishing house . In Basel he received his doctorate in law in 1574. From 1581 to 1583 he was an advocate at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer . In 1583 he became a bailiff in Forbach.

Fischart, who was first a Lutheran , then a Calvinist , wrote against the decline of morals, the papacy and the Jesuits . Almost all of Fischart's works are based on models, often using the Knittel verse . His wordplay art is masterful , his numerous word inventions famous (the joking name goose wine for water is mentioned for the first time in one of his works). Many of his works are considered examples of brutality . His most famous work is the Affentheurlich Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitterung (1575), a free and to sealing a translation of François Rabelais work Gargantua , that the term Geschichtsklitterung served as the origin.

  • Fish species monument in Strasbourg , Place du pont aux chats (Krutenau)

  • Title page Eulenspiegel Reimensweis

  • Title page The luckily ship of Zurich

  • Title page of the edition of Flöh Haz \ Weiber Traz from 1577

  • Title page of the flawed history of 1590

Works

  • Barfüsser sects and cowl dispute, 1570/71
  • Artificial praise of the lute, 1572
  • Eulenspiegel Reimenweis, 1572 ( edited by Adolf Hauffen )
  • Grandmother of all practice, 1572
  • A preparation in the “Amadis”, 1572
  • Flöh Haz \ Weiber Traz , 1573, 1577
  • Serious embrace to the dear Germans, 1573
  • Animal pictures, 1574
  • Saying of the donkey, before 1575
  • Affentheurlich Naupengeheurliche Geschichtklitterung , 1575/90
  • Quite a few Sonnet, 1575
  • Biblical Histories, 1576
  • The cricket Krottestisch Mül, 1577
  • The lucky ship of Zurich, 1576/77 ( digitized at zeno.org )
  • The Gorgonian Medusa head, 1577
  • Podagram (m) isch Trostbüchlin, 1577
  • Bin basket of the Heyl. Roman swarm of men, 1579
  • Das Jesuiterhütlein (satire), 1580 ( digitized at zeno.org )
  • Vom Ausgelaßnen Wütigen Teuffelsheer, 1581, translation of Jean Bodin's De la Demonomanie de sorciers (1580); in Latin: De magorum Daemonomania (1581)
  • A whitewashing imprint of the wrong, false scholars and glee deceit, 1584
  • A report written outside of Meyland, 1589 ( digitized version of the Augsburg University Library )
  • Uncalvinisch Gegen Badstüblein, 1589 ( digitized version of the Augsburg University Library )
  • Catalogus Catalogorum perpetuo durabiis, 1590 (newly published by Michael Schilling , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1993)
  • Ulrich Seelbach u. a .: (Ed.): Johann Fischart: Complete Works. Critical edition with commentary.
    • Volume 1: Night Rab or Nebelkräh (1570) - Barefoot sect and cowl dispute (approx. 1570/1) - By S. Dominici Leben (1571) - A kind of praise of the lute (1572) - All the practice grandmother (in two versions 1572 and 1574). - In the appendix: Preface to the lute books (1572). Peter Lang, Bern 1993, ISBN 978-3-9067-5036-1 .
    • Volume 2: Eulenspiegel rhymed (1572). Fromann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002, ISBN 978-3-7728-1837-0 .
    • Volume 3: The sixth book of Amadis (1572). Fromann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2012, ISBN 978-3-7728-1838-7 .

literature

  • Emil Weller : New Original Poetry by Johann Fischart. Edited and provided with an introduction to the history of literature and new information about J. Fischart . HW Schmidt, Halle 1854 ( digitized version )
  • Ludwig Ganghofer : Johann Fischart and his Germanization of the Rabelais . Theodor Ackermann, Munich 1881
  • Erich Schmidt :  Fischart, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 31-47.
  • Leo Krell : Studies on the language of Fischart from his rhymes , Kgl. Court and University Book Printing Dr. C. Wolf & Son, 1912/1913.
  • Adolf Hauffen : Johann Fischart. A literary image from the time of the Counter Reformation . 2 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin 1921–1922
  • Hugo Sommerhalder: Johann Fischart's work. An introduction . De Gruyter, Berlin 1960
  • Gustav Bebermeyer :  Fischart, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 170 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ulrich Seelbach : Ludus lectoris. Studies on the ideal reader of Johann Fischart . Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1109-0
  • Ulrich Seelbach: Fischart, Johann . In: Early Modern Times in Germany 1520–1620. Literary studies author's lexicon [VL 16] . Vol. 2. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, Sp. 358–383 ( author's version as PDF , 455 kB)

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Fischart  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fischart, Johann Baptist Friedrich. From: Gudrun Gersmann , Katrin Moeller, Jürgen-Michael Schmidt (eds.): Lexicon for the history of witch hunt. In: historicum.net (URL: https://www.historicum.net/purl/jfzpb/ ).
  2. ↑ In addition to his real name, he also used the pseudonyms Mentzer , Menzer , Reznem ( Menzer backwards), Huldrich Elloposkleros , Jesuwalt (i) Pickhart , Winhold Alkofribas Wüstblutus and Ulrich Mansehr von Treubach .
  3. ↑ For example: “Steadfast and loyal and loyal and steadfast, they make a really German relationship”.
personal data
SURNAME Fischart, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischart, Johann Baptist (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1546 or 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH 1591
Place of death Forbach (Moselle)