Johannes Bock

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Liber Hungaridos Primus , 1599

Johannes Bock (or Hans Bock ; Lower Sorbian Jan Bok , Latinized Ioannes Bocatius , born December 25, 1569 in Vetschau , † November 12, 1621 in Uherský Brod ) was a Lower Sorbian poet, diplomat and educator .

Life

Bock was born as the son of the Vetschauer businessman Peter Bock and studied in Dresden and Wittenberg . His teacher in Wittenberg was Caspar Peucer , Bautzner polyhistor , elector's personal physician and son-in-law of Philipp Melanchthon .

Bock then worked in Preschau and Kaschau . In Kaschau he took over the management of the evangelical school in 1599, and in 1604 he became city judge. He worked as a diplomat for the Hungarian-Transylvanian Count István Bocskai . Emperor Rudolf II sentenced him to several years imprisonment in Prague .

Hans Bock is counted among the most important poets of his time. He had the imperial title Poeta laureatus ceasareus , which means as much as crowned poet .

Honors

There are commemorative plaques for Hans Bock at the Wendish-German double church in Vetschau and Košice. In 2013 a commemorative event of the Federal Union of European National Minorities (FUEN) was held in honor of Johannes Bocatius in the Košice City Library that bears his name .

Fonts

  • «Celadon. Ecloga… Bartphae » , Erzsébetet 1594;
  • "Ungaria gratulans ser principi ac domino Maximiliano archiduci Austriaco… cum partes Ungariae Superioris ingreditur" . Bártfa, 1595;
  • «Elegiae duae. Altera M. Joannis Bocatii PL altera P. Joannis Balogi Th. Amincis lectoribus exhibendae » , Bártfa, 1595;
  • "Oratio de profanitate Turcicae religionis, deque rebellionis maledicti regni initiis et incrementis" . Wittenberg, 1596;
  • "Siracides vel Ecclesiasticus Jesu, filii Sirach, Paraeneses ad vitam bene beateque transigendam in locos communes redactae et versibus elegiacis redditae" . 1596;
  • "Castra temperantiae" . Bártfa, 1597;
  • «Musae parentales. U. ott » , 1598;
  • «Munus Judiciale. U. ott » , 1598;
  • «Novus Annus. U. ott » . 1599;
  • "Hungaridos libri poematum" , Bártfa, 1599;
  • «Commentatio epistolica de legatione sua ad Stephanum Bocskay. Transilvaniae principem, et suscepta cum eo anno » , 1605;
  • "Olympias Carceraria" , 1611;
  • «Salamon Hungaricus vel de Mathiae Corvini, potentissimi ac felicissimi… Hungariae regis… dictis. Cassoviae » . 1611;
  • «Militia S. Georgii. U. ott » . 1612;
  • "Hebdomelodia Psalmi 103. U. Ott" , 1614;
  • «Anser nuptialis. U. Ott » , 1618;
  • «Historia Parasceve. U. Ott » , 1621.

Text output

literature

  • Doris Teichmann : Johannes Bock-Bocatius (1569-1621) - Sorabus Lusatus . In: Lětopis . Volume 52, Issue 1. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2005. pp. 48–73.
  • Doris Teichmann: Mag. Johannes Bock - Bocatius - Sorabus - Lusatus - Vetschoviensis. In: Studies on the history and culture of Niederlausitz in the 16th and 17th centuries. Source historical investigations. Writings of the Sorbian Institute / Spisy Serbskeho Instituta, Vol. 16; Domowina-Verlag Bautzen 1998.
  • Madlena Norberg: Johannes Bocatius - a poet with German tongue. In: Potsdam contributions to Sorabistics. Volume 1. 2000. pp. 59-71. ( pdf )
  • Peter Kosta: On the Latin poetry of Johannes Bocatius . In: Potsdam contributions to Sorabistics. Volume 1. 2000. pp. 48–58 ( pdf )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Bocatius honored in Košice (accessed on July 10, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock, Hans; Bok, Jan (Sorbian); Bocatius, Ioannes (Latin); Bocatius János (Hungarian); Bocatius, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Sorbian poet, diplomat and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1569
PLACE OF BIRTH Vetschau / Spreewald
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1621
Place of death Uherský Brod