Johann Peter Titz
Johann Peter Titz (* 10. January 1619 in Legnica , † 7. September 1689 in Gdansk ) was a German educator , poet , poeticists and Protestant hymn writer .
Life
Son of a Liegnitz doctor, Titz attended the Elisabethgymnasium in Breslau , where Christoph Colerus was one of his teachers. After losing his parents, he moved to Danzig in 1635 in order to complete the interrupted high school studies there. He then enrolled in Rostock to study first law and later classical studies. Without having obtained a degree, at the end of the war in 1648 he was appointed vice-principal of the Danzig Marienschule. In the post-war year 1651 he was offered the position of high school professor for ancient languages, which forced him to study quickly in Leiden . After returning to Danzig, he also accepted the professorships for poetry and rhetoric .
Titz was enormously productive all his life. Despite his varied professional demands, more than 200 individual prints of his seals and school writings can be verified. Although he could hardly have known Martin Opitz personally, he was his greatest admirer and imitator. Shortly after Opitz's death, he published a Poetik Zwey Bücher on the art of making High German verses and songs (1642), in which he strictly adheres to his model. A dedication poem by Simon Dach testifies that Titz had already joined the Königsberg poets' circle as "Tityrus" .
At the age of 60, he married again, namely Aurelia, the daughter of the architect Georg von Strackwitz from Danzig. Titz died at the age of 70 in his adopted home in Gdańsk.
literature
- Hermann Markgraf: Titz, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 389 f.
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johann Peter Titz (1619–1689). In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Volume 6. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7772-9305-9 , pp. 4029-71.
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Peter Titz in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Johann Peter Titz in VD 17 .
- Digitized prints by Johann Peter Titz in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Titz, Johann Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Titius, Johann Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pedagogue, poet and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1619 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liegnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1689 |
| Place of death | Danzig |