Johann Gorgias

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Johann Gorgias (also under the pseudonyms Veriphantor , Florindo and Poliandin ; born on May 25, 1640 in Kronstadt , Transylvania ; died on June 7, 1684 there ) was a German writer.

Life

Little is known about Gorgias' life. After attending grammar school in Kronstadt , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on July 28, 1659 . On June 24, 1661, he was crowned a poet by Johann Rist in Wittenberg and was a member of the Elbe Swan Order under the name Florindo in 1664 at the latest . In January 1676 at the latest he was back in Kronstadt, where he became head of the grammar school at the end of March.

Gorgias made a name for himself as an opponent of the alamode literature of his time and turned against "multilingualism" and the social upgrading of women. In 1666, for example, under the pseudonym Poliandin , he wrote a counter-writ to the honorary prize of the highly commendable women's room (Frankfurt am Main 1663) by the Jesuit-influenced Wilhelm Ignaz Schütz , in which he defended his image of women as a representative of conservative Protestantism and denied scholarship to women. The resulting controversy received a lot of attention and Jakob Thomasius commented on it in 1683 in a paper De duobus scriptis contrariis Schutzii et Poliandini .

In his satirical novels, which are always pseudonymous, Gorgias warned the “lovers” of the “seductive and masculine women” and their “vices”. His presentation technique was based on the shepherd and picaro novels , but genre features take a back seat in his simple stories. The short stories, which "often cross the border of the obscene, are always only examples for the subsequent moralizing treatise". Numerous new editions of his works prove that Gorgias was one of the most widely read authors at the turn of the 18th century. It was also received by the romantics (for example Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano ).

Works

literature

  • Marieluise Bauer: Studies on the German shepherd novel of the 17th century. Dissertation Munich 1979.
  • Horst Fassel : Johann Gorgias, a Transylvanian in German literature of the 17th century. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter. 36: 125-131 (1987).
  • John L. Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Berlin & New York 2006, Vol. 2, pp. 688-690.
  • Egon Hajek : Johann Gorgias, a lost poet of the 17th century. In: Euphorion. Journal of the History of Literature. 26 (1925), pp. 22–49, 197–240 (with catalog raisonné).
  • Joachim Jacob: The beauty of literature. On the history of a problem from Gorgias to Max Bense. In: Studies on German Literature. 183 (2007).
  • Hans-Joachim Jakob: Seduction and cruelty in Johann Gorgias' ›Love and pitiful [r] TraurGeschicht‹ Deceived Frontalbo (around 1670) in the context of the misogyny discourse in the 17th century. In: Simpliciana. 31 (2009), pp. 323-342.
  • Michael Keevak: Veriphantor's ›Betrogener Frontalbo‹ (c. 1670) and the address of misogyny. In: Germanic-Romance monthly. Neue Episode 39 (1989), pp. 424-439.
  • Bernd Praetorius: Gorgias, Johann. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 4, p. 322.
  • Stefan Sienerth : Andreas Pinxner, a contemporary of Gorgias. A badly treated Transylvanian baroque author. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter. 38 (1989), pp. 278-284.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Thomasius: De duobus scriptis contrariis Schutzii et Poliandini. In: Ders .: Praefationes. Leipzig 1683, pp. 450-462.
  2. ^ Praetorius: Gorgias, Johann. In: Killy Literaturlexikon Berlin 2009, Vol. 4, p. 322.
personal data
SURNAME Gorgias, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veriphantor (pseudonym); Poliandin (pseudonym); Poliandinus (pseudonym); Floridan (pseudonym); Florindo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1684
Place of death Kronstadt , Transylvania