Johann Valentin Pietsch

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Johann Valentin Pietsch (born June 23, 1690 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † July 29, 1733 ibid) was a German doctor and poet.

Life

Pietsch studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg and the Brandenburg University in Frankfurt . In Frankfurt he received his doctorate in medicine in 1713 . When he returned to his homeland, he received the professorship of poetry at the Albertus University and the dignity of a master's degree in philosophy in recognition of the originally anonymously published poem about Eugene of Savoy and the Great Turkish War . In 1719 , under the soldier king , he became court counselor , Leibmedicus and Oberlandphysicus.

He was on friendly terms with Benjamin Neukirch , Johann von Besser and especially Johann Christoph Gottsched , who protected his former teacher in Pietsch. Pietsch's poems are mostly written on the occasion of various time and court events. His office obliged him to poetically celebrate the king's coronation day and the queen's birthday. The birth of a prince, weddings and funeral funerals of high patrons or befriended Königsberg families also presented him with lyrical tasks. In contrast to the “Italian style of writing” of the Second Silesian School , “his poetic expression is free from bulges of images and pompous words begged together, from indulging in blood and horror, but sober and dry like Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz , Besser and Johann Ulrich von König .” That The poem for the 44th birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm I and the wedding song for Friedrich II (June 1733) hardly met with any response. Pietsch's poetry, which falls outside the framework of hero, state, mourning and marriage poems, shows influences from Horace and Nicolas Boileau . In his sacred poems he combined elements of cantatas , arias , recitatives and chorales to create a new kind of oratorio texts .

"All these poems of the state and heroes take a run to fly and remain depressed by boredom and sobriety on earth."

- Max von Waldberg

Works

  • About the Hungarian campaign of Prince Eugene
  • Charles the Sixth won victory over the Turks in 1717 , poem
  • Detailed illustration of all suffering and agony of Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the world , spiritual poem
  • De impedito medicinae progressu

literature

  • Johannes cover: Johann Valentin Pietsch: His life. Bibliography of his writings. His literary position . Duncker, Weimar 1915.
  • Jürgen Manthey : Publicity, impact, conviction: these three (Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Valentin Pietsch) , in this: Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic . Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-34318-3 , pp. 95-116.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADB
personal data
SURNAME Pietsch, Johann Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and poet in Koenigsberg
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg , Duchy of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1733
Place of death Königsberg , Kingdom of Prussia