Johann Georg Albini

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Johann Georg Albini the Elder , also Albinus (born March 6, jul. / 16th March  1624 greg. In Nessa in Weissenfels , † May 25 jul. / 4. June  1679 greg. In Naumburg (Saale) ) was a German writer and Protestant theologian of the baroque period .

Life

Albini was the son of the pastor Zacharias Albinus (Latinized from Weisse ) and great-grandson Zacharias Selnecker . When Albini was eleven years old, his father died. In 1638 Albini came to live with his cousin Lucas Pollio, a deacon at St. Nicholas in Leipzig . Albini's mother died in 1642, her cousin a year later; the nineteen year old was on his own. The court preacher Sebastian Mitternacht took on Albinis in Naumburg; Despite the blows of fate, Albini did not lose heart:

As a poor fellow I tried day and night to learn something honest and thorough, because I could rely on nothing but God and good people who helped me everywhere.

In 1645 he matriculated to study theology in Jena , which he later continued in Leipzig. In addition to his studies, he devoted himself to poetry and worked as a tutor for the children of his brother-in-law, Mayor Kühlwein. After a few intermediate stops he was appointed rector of the Naumburg Cathedral School in 1653 . In 1657 he became chief pastor of the Naumburg Church of St. Othmar and remained so until his death in 1679. The Latin inscription that his sons had engraved on his tombstone reads:

Cum viveret, moriebatur, et nunc cum mortuus vivit, quia sciebat, quod vita via sit mortis et mors vitae introitus.

One of his sons is the baroque poet of the same name, Johann Georg Albini the Younger .

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Albini wrote numerous sacred poems and verse transcriptions from Dutch and Latin. Following the example of the Latin poetry of the Jesuits and the Pegnitzschäfer influenced by it and the Italian literature of the time, he wanted to overcome Martin Opitz's style, which he felt was too dry . In your anger , punishment me in particular was not known of his hymns . Overall, his work was shaped by the harrowing experiences of the Thirty Years' War .

Albini joined the German-minded cooperative of Philipp von Zesen as Der Blühende . Johann Sebastian Bach used stanzas by Albini in the cantatas Who knows how close my end is to me? (BWV 27) and Der Friede sei mit dir (BWV 158), Klaus Huber set Albini's stanzas to music in 1957 as the angel's address to the soul , a twelve-tone composition .

Poem example

An example of Albini's poetry style:

Do not punish me in your anger (first two stanzas)

Do not punish me in your anger,
Great God, spare;
Oh don't let me be lost,
not worth it for merit.
When sin kindles you,
for Christ's sake let
your anger be quieted .

Lord: who thinks yours in death,
who gives thanks in hell?
Save me from the torment of
the damned souls,
That I praise you for and for
there on that day,
Most High God.

Works

Songs

  • All people have to die . 1652 (perhaps written by Johann Rosenmüller ).
  • Goodbye world, I'm tired of you . 1668.
  • Do not punish me in your anger . 1675.

Poetry and acting

  • Sad Cypressen Krantz. Besides the holy five wounds Jesus bound . Poems. 1650.
  • Pardischer Nimffen imprint . Wedding poem. Bauch, Leipzig 1652.
  • Recent dishes. Presented in a bound speech . Poem. Fuhrmann and Bauch, Leipzig 1653.
  • Joy of Eternal Life . Poem. Fuhrmann and Bauch, Leipzig 1653.
  • Torment of the damned . Poem. Fuhrmann and Bauch, Leipzig 1653.
  • Eumelio. Poema dramaticum . Play. Müller, Naumburg, Freyschmidt, Jena 1657.
  • Spiritual and secular poems . Fuhrmann and Köler, Leipzig 1659.
  • Christ-Adeliches Margarethen-Hertze . Funeral poem. Bauhofer, Jena 1670.
  • Spiritual armored war hero . Funeral poem. 1675.
  • Schwartz-Sorrowful Moritz Castle on the Elster . Funeral poem. 1676.
  • Zweyfach Todten-Urthel. About the righteous death . Funeral poem. Nisius, Jena 1677.
  • The sky-wandering Philurania dying concrete . In: Death Songs of the Friends of Heaven . 1679.
  • Solid consolation Again the fear of death . Funeral poem. Müller, Jena 1680.

Translations

  • Jacob Cats : The Royal Printzens Erofilos Shepherds-Love . 1652.
  • Solomon's Engeddisches garden song . Redesign of the Song of Songs . Fuhrmann and Bauch, Leipzig 1652.
  • Hermann Hugo: Heaven-flaming soul-lust . Müller and Humm, Frankfurt am Main 1675.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Albinus (Albini), Johann Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 89.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  2. ↑ cyberhymnal.org ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cyberhymnal.org
  3. ↑ Ludwig Lemcke:  Albinus, Joh. Georg, the elder . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 222 f.
  4. ↑ Do not punish me in your anger .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. gesangbuch.org@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gesangbuch.org  
personal data
SURNAME Albini, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albinus, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Nessa near Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1679
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)