Johann Lauremberg

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Johann Lauremberg , also Johannes Lauremberg , occasionally wrong: Johann Wilhelm Laurenberg (born February 26, 1590 in Rostock ; † February 28, 1658 in Sorø , Denmark ) was a mathematician and cartographer as well as a Low German poet and writer of the Baroque period . As a pseudonym he used the name "Hans Willmsen L. Rost." (= Johann, son of Wilhelm Lauremberg Rostochiensis).

Life

Johann Lauremberg was the son of Rostock professor Wilhelm Lauremberg and brother of the writer Peter Lauremberg .

He studied in Rostock from 1605 and took his master's degree on November 8, 1610 . Between 1612 and 1617 he undertook educational trips to Holland , England , France and Italy , including studying medicine in Paris from 1613 to 1616 ; In 1616 he received his doctorate in medicine in Reims . From 1618 to 1623 he was professor of poetry at the University of Rostock and then until the end of his life professor of mathematics at the knight academy in Sorø . During his time in Rostock, he drew a map of Mecklenburg in 1622, which became part of the Rostock Great Atlas in 1664 .

In addition to mathematical and educational writings, Johann Lauremberg wrote a Latin tragedy , Latin and German poems, allegorical wedding comedies and Low German poems. The published under the pseudonym "Hans Willmsen L. Rost" 1652 satirical Veer Schertzgedichte, gerimet In Nedderdüdisch where Lauremberg fads mocked his time were of Constantin Christian Dedekind in 1654 translated into High German.

Map of the Duchy of Mecklenburg von Lauremberg, published in Amsterdam around 1709

Works (selection)

  • Pompey Magnus. (Tragedy). 1610
  • Zwo Comoedien ... Bey the High Princely Beylager. (Wedding comedies). 1635
  • Triumphus Nuptialis Danicus. (Festival book). 1635
  • Ocium Soranum sive Epigrammata. (Latin poems). 1648
  • Veer joke poems ... Gerymet in Nedderdüdisch. (Low German satires). 1652. New ed. under the title De nye poleerte Utiopische Bockes-Büdel. no year (around 1700)
  • Musical Schawspiel ... The story of Arion. 1655
  • Graecia Antiqua. Edited by Samuel Pufendorf . Johannes Jansson, Amsterdam 1660 ( digitized )

literature

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt :  Lauremberg, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 720 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Johannes Lauremberg (1590–1658) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints. Volume 4. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9122-6 , pp. 2512-2530 (list of works and literature)
  • Klaus Peter: The humor in the Low German poems by Johann Laurembergs. Its structure and function. Böhlau, Cologne and Graz 1967 (also dissertation, University of Marburg 1964)
  • Erich Schmidt :  Lauremberg, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 58 f.
  • Mara R. Wade: German Court Culture and Denmark. Triumphus Nuptialis Danicus. The “Great Wedding” of 1634. (= Wolfenbütteler work on baroque research; Vol. 27). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996. ISBN 3-447-03899-3
  • Hermann Weimer: Laurembergs joke poems. The way and time of their creation. Dissertation, University of Marburg 1899
  • Willi Passig: They shouldn't be forgotten. Low German book of poets for Mecklenburg . Edition Pommern, Elmenhorst / Vorpommern 2013. ISBN 978-3-939680-14-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Lauremberg, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauremberg, Johannes; Willmsen L. Rost, J .; Rost, J. Wilmsen L .; Laurenberg, Johann Wilhelm (wrongly)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1658
Place of death Sorø , Denmark