Johann Spreng

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Johannes Spreng (* 1524 in Augsburg ; † March 30, 1601 ibid) was an Augsburg mastersinger and member of the local singing school.

Life

Unlike most of the representatives of his guild , he did not practice a trade , but was a translator and from 1594 a notary . To supplement suitable song texts , he translated parts of the Virgilian poem Aeneid and the entire Homeric poem Iliad into German and set them in rhyming verses .

Works

  • P. Ovidii Nasonis ... Metamorphoses or metamorphosis, adorned with beautiful artificial figures, also short ... Arguments and interpretations, explained, and put into German rhymes ... by Johan Spreng, Printed zu Franckfurt by Georg Raben, Sigmund Feyrabend, and Wigand Hanen Erben 1564 (reprinted 1571)
  • Homerus / Spreng, Johannes: Ilias Homeri. This is Homeri, the ancient great Greek poet, XXIIII. Books. From the mighty war of the Greeks, against the Troiander, also the long-lasting siege, and the destruction of the royal place of Troia. Same the 12th books of Aeneidos des ... Publij Virgilij Maronis, from the stories and tremendous deeds of the Troian hero Aeneae ..., now Either way, published in an open truck and produced, augspurg, 1610. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digital

literature

  • Christoph Becker: Powers of attorney, pursuit of claims, loans and other property matters in the early modern Ausgburg notary archive Johann Spreng . In: Sabine Wüst (ed.): Treasures of the world from a regional historical perspective. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Wolfgang Wüst, St. Ottilien: EOS 2018, ISBN 9783830678908 , pp. 31–42.
  • Gustav Roethe :  Spreng, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 288-291.
  • Albert Greiner: The Augsburg Singing School in its internal and external structure . Augsburg 1924
  • Rudolf Pfeiffer: The Mastersingers School in Augsburg and the Homer translator Johannes Spreng , (= Swabian historical sources and research; Volume 2), Munich and Leipzig 1919
  • Fritz Schnell: On the history of the Augsburger Meistersinger School , (= treatises on the history of the city of Augsburg; Issue 11), 2nd edition Augsburg 2001 ISBN 3-89639-297-2
  • Ingrid Urban: Johannes Spreng. Meistergesänge , (Berlin, FU, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation from December 20, 1960), Berlin 1967
  • Petra Fochler: Fiction as History. The Trojan War in 16th Century German Literature . Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages Vol. 4. Wiesbaden 1990, pp. 82–96.
  • Reinhard Hahn:  Spreng, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 748 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Spreng, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spreng, Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mastersingers from Augsburg and member of the local singing school
DATE OF BIRTH 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1601
Place of death augsburg