Johann Georg Schoch

Johann Georg Schoch (baptized February 28, 1627 in Leipzig , † around 1690 ) was a German poet , playwright and translator of the Baroque period .

Life

Schoch was the son of a Leipzig jeweler. After attending school in his hometown, he enrolled at Leipzig University in 1644, where he came into contact with the poet David Schirmer . Together with Schirmer, he went to Wittenberg for a while in order to be able to attend August Buchner's much-praised lectures . His law degree , however, took place again in Leipzig, probably around 1658, because from 1659 he is proven to be a lawyer in Naumburg (Saale) . In 1668 he was a bailiff in Westerburg, and in 1678 his residence is proven to be in Kölln an der Spree, today Berlin. After that his track is lost. In addition to a number of other writings, Schoch left behind an important collection of baroque poetry, including 100 songs, 200 sonnets and 400 epigrams. Despite multiple efforts, he was never accepted into the Fruitful Society .

Works

(Selection)

• Comoedia from student life. Wittigau, Leipzig 1657
  • further edition: Wittigau, Leipzig 1658 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Facsimile print after the edition of 1657 ed. Hugh Powell. Herbert Lang, Bern 1976
• (Ex.) Publius Ovidius Naso : Kurtze Constitution of Ovidian Descriptions of Metamorphosis. Leipzig 1650
• Newly built poetic pleasure and flower garden. Leipzig 1660
• Re-invented Philyrenian War and Peace Shepherdess. Naumburg 1663
• (Ex.) Publius Ovidius Naso : Poetic Weyrauchbaum and Sunflower. Leipzig 1656
• (Ex.) Jean Mocquet : Wonderful, but thorough and rich history and travel experiences in Africa, Asia, East and West India. Lueneburg 1688

literature

• Barbara Bopp: Experimentation with Sonnet Form in the "Dear, Praise and Honor Sonnets" by Johann Georg Schoch . Ann Arbor 1979
• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johann Georg Schoch . In: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 5. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9133-1 , pp. 3724-3733 (list of works and references)
• Abram Friesen: The Kormarts and Schochs Theater. Dissertation Mainz 1958
• Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh and Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Max von Waldberg :  Schoch, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 729-731.

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Georg Schoch in VD 17 .
• Digitized prints by Johann Georg Schoch in the catalog of the Herzog August Library