Johann Wilhelm Simler

Johann Wilhelm Simler (born August 29, 1605 in Zurich ; † March 14, 1672 there ) was a Swiss poet of the Baroque period .

Life

Simler comes from a Zurich academic family. He studied theology in Zurich and received his doctorate in Geneva in 1627 . After several educational trips abroad, he received his first pastorate in Uetikon , later went to Herrliberg , where he married in 1631. However, the preaching profession did not appeal to him, so that he was assigned a church inspectorate, which he held all his life. After a relatively uneventful life with his family, he died in his hometown.

Simler was the first Swiss poet to adopt the new rules from Martin Opitz , and at the same time stands at the beginning of High German poetry in his home country.

Works

• German poems. Zurich 1648 (continuously expanded editions: 1653, 1663, and the most complete 1688)

Literature (selection)

• Ernst Nägeli : Johann Wilhelm Simler as a poet. Dissertation Zurich 1936
• Gustav Roethe :  Simler, Johann Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 352 f.
• Joachim Schumacher : JW Simler. The reception of the Opitz Baroque in German-speaking Switzerland. Dissertation Heidelberg 1933
• Jakob Zollinger: The transition of Zurich to the New High German written language. Dissertation Freiburg / Breisgau 1920

List of works and references

• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Johann Wilhelm Simler (1605-1672)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 5. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 3905-08. ISBN 3-7772-9133-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Wilhelm Simler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Johann Wilhelm Simler in VD 17 .
• Barbara Schmid: Simmler, Johann Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Works by Johann Wilhelm Simler