Johann Kirchmann

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Johann Kirchmann. Painting by Zacharias Kniller (1611–1675)

Johann Kirchmann , also Johannes Kirchmann (born January 18, 1575 in Lübeck ; † March 20, 1643 ibid) was a German philologist, author and educator.

family

Johann Kirchmann was born on January 18, 1575 as the son of the businessman Gerhard Kirchmann and his wife Gesa, born Dreyer (after Stolterfoth, nee Hüneriger or Marckward), in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. In 1606 he married the daughter of the Rostock councilor Joachim Schele, Emerentia († 1671); the marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters. One of his sons, the lawyer Johann Kirchmann (1615–1687), later became mayor of Schleswig . His daughter Dorothea (1609–1637) married Jacob Stolterfoht , preacher at St. Mary's Church , who Kirchmann also gave the funeral oration. Kirchmann's epitaph in the Marienkirche with one by Zacharias Knillerpainted portrait burned during the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.

life and work

Title copper for Kirchmann's De Funeribus Romanorum

Kirchmann attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and later studied at the universities of Rostock , Frankfurt / Oder , Jena , Strasbourg , Altdorf and, in 1599, Wittenberg . In 1603 he became professor for poetics at the University of Rostock . From 1613 until his death in 1643 he was rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck. In 1616 he was one of the founders of the Lübeck City Library, along with the Lübeck mayor Alexander Lüneburg and the superintendent Georg Stampelius . Between 1620 and 1622 (with additions up to 1641) he recorded their founding inventory, compiled from the libraries of the town hall, the school and several churches, in the first inventory catalog, which he arranged according to provenance .

Kirchmann maintained extensive correspondence with numerous other scholars of his time. Influenced by late humanism , he mainly dealt with topics from the field of classical antiquity. Among his writings, one should mention De Funeribus Romanorum , a compilation of quotes on burial customs in ancient Rome first published in Hamburg in 1605 and later reprinted several times, as well as De annulis liber (1623), an investigation into the use of rings. In addition, he published various Latin speeches and poems. After his death, textbooks on rhetoric ( Rudimenta rhetorica , 1652), on logic ( Rudimenta logicae Peripateticae , 1669), as well as his adaptation of the Latin grammar by Nathan Chyträus ( Nathanis Chytraei Grammatica Latina , 1667) appeared.

literature

Publisher's mark in the Hamburg edition from Georg Ludwig Frobenius

Web links

Commons : Johann Kirchmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Kirchmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photography , Image Index of Art and Architecture
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , SS 1593, No. 9
  3. ↑ Registration of Iohann. Kirchman
  4. ^ Entry on Johann Kirchmann in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  5. ↑ access point of the public library to 1641 , digitized , public library Lübeck
predecessor Office successor
Otto Walper Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck
1613 - 1643 		Sebastian Meier
personal data
SURNAME Kirchmann, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchmann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, author and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1643
Place of death Lübeck