Johann Ludwig Gottfried

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Johann Ludwig Gottfried (* 1584 in Amberg (Upper Palatinate); † May 1633 ) was a theologian , translator , author , editor and proofreader .

Life

For a long time Gottfried's name was viewed as a pseudonym of Johann Philipp Abelin and its existence was negated.

From 1601 Johann Ludwig Gottfried studied theology in Heidelberg . From 1603 to 1624 at the latest he was first as a deacon , then as a reformed pastor in 4 parishes in the Electoral Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine (Gau-Odernheim, Eimsheim, Monzernheim, Weinolsheim).

Through a Latin retelling of Ovid's Metamorphoses, he came into contact with the de Bry publishing house in Oppenheim in 1619 and from then on worked with his versatile language skills and his education as a valued employee of Oppenheim and Frankfurt publishers such as Johann Theodor de Bry , de Bry's nephews Lucas Jennis and de Bry's son-in-law, Matthäus Merian the Elder. He provided translations, epigrams , paraphrases and compilations for many large publications by these publishers. He oversaw some publishing projects as editor and proofreader.

In 1624 he came to Frankfurt as a proofreader. He never gave up his ministry entirely; so he was officially from 1625 until the end of his life pastor of the Reformed community of Offenbach . Occasionally, however, he was represented by vicars so that he could devote himself to translating and authoring work for the Frankfurt publishers (especially for Merian) undisturbed. After Daniel Meisner's death in 1625, Eberhard Kieser was commissioned to write the Latin and German emblem texts in the following parts of the first book of the Thesaurus Philopoliticus .

He also translated Pierre d'Avity's Les Estat ... into German and Latin.

His own most extensive work is the Gottfried Chronicle . It was continued after his death by Johann Philipp Abelin († September 1634) and remained a widely read historical work until the 18th century, from which u. a. Goethe drew his first knowledge of world history.

Works

  • New world and American histories: comprehensive and complete descriptions of all West Indian landscapes, islands, kingdoms and provinces , first edition by Matthäus Merian, Frankfurt 1631. Digitized and full text in the German Text Archive (facsimile edition at Fackelverlag, Stuttgart 1980)
  • Gottfried's historical chronicle or description of the most remarkable story
    • Part 1: This is what happened from the beginning of the world up to the year of Christ 1619. Digitalisat ULB Düsseldorf
    • Part 2: As it happened from 1618 to the end of 1659; in which the most important events, changes of state, growth and decline of their kayserthies, kingdoms, choirs and principalities, Frey states, states and cities

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Ludwig Gottfried  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in some sources "around" 1584
  2. ↑ As explained in VD17
  3. ↑ a b see literature Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich on Johann Ludwig Gottfried in the NDB
  4. ↑ see web link Mateo
  5. ↑ a b Liliencron mistakenly assumed Gottfried, Johann Ludwig as a pseudonym for Abelin, Johann Philipp and thus as one and the same person in his ADB article.
personal data
SURNAME Gottfried, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH May 1633