Johannes Burmeister

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Johannes Burmeister , also Johann Burmeister (* 1576 in Lüneburg ; † 23 August 1638 in Uelzen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and general superintendent for the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg from 1628 to 1635, most recently provost of Uelzen, as well as a neo-Latin poet.

Live and act

Burmeister was a relative, probably a cousin, of Joachim Burmeister . From 1594 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Rostock . In 1600 Nikolaus von Reusner crowned him as Comes palatinus in Jena as poeta laureatus . In 1601 he was ordained by the then general superintendent Johannes Rupertus from Lauenburg and introduced as a deacon in Lauenburg / Elbe . In 1603 he was appointed to the parish in Gülzow . In 1627, when the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War reached the northern bank of the Elbe, he fled to Hamburg . The rectory in Gülzow was looted and burned down by Croatian imperial troops.

In 1628 Burmeister was appointed pastor of Lauenburg / Elbe and general superintendent of the Duchy of Lauenburg. He took up this office at a politically difficult time, because during the Thirty Years' War the duchy repeatedly suffered from troop movements, which also caused great damage to churches and pastorates and, above all, created great hardship in the countryside.

In 1635 Burmeister moved to Uelzen as provost, where he died.

Works

In addition to personal writings , Burmeister has received numerous revisions by ancient authors to depict biblical material, which he called inversiones and sacrae parodiae . These revisions, which systematically replace pagan elements with Christian ones, were particularly popular with Protestant scholars in Central Europe from around 1590 to 1620, after which this art died out. An excellent representative was Paul Melissus , in neighboring Holstein the pastor Wilhelm Alard , who published an Anacreon Christianus in 1613 . The sacrae parodiae were used for entertainment and edification and probably also for school purposes. For example, in 1621 Burmeister adapted Plautus ' Amphitruo to a kind of nativity play under the title Mater-Virgo .

  • Martialis Renati. Parodiarum Sacrarum M. Val. Martialis Epigrammata. 3 volumes, Goslar, Lüneburg: Hans Stern and Johann Vogt 1612
Digitized volume 1 , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized volume 2 , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized volume 3 , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Saturnaliorum Christianorum Libri septem. Goslar: Vogt 1619
Digitized , Göttingen University Library
  • MA Plauti Renati sive Sacri Mater-Virgo, comoedia prima ex Amphitruone ad Admirandum Conceptionis et Incarnationis Filii Dei Misterium inversa. Lüneburg: Michaelis 1621
  • MA Plauti renati sive sacri Aulularia, comoedia tertia ex fabula ethnica ad biblicam de Achanis furto historiam inversa. Hamburg: Moses 1629

Modern edition

  • Michael Fontaine (ed.): Joannes Burmeister: Aulularia and Other Inversions of Plautus . (= Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae) Leuven: Leuven University Press 2015 ISBN 9789461661791

See also

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Burmester : Contributions to the church history of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Ratzeburg: self-published 1832, pp. 79 f., 84 ( online ); 2nd ed. 1882.
  • Joachim Hohmeyer: Pröpste in Uelzen , in: Der Heidewanderer 2001, p. 121 ff.
  • Eckardt Opitz (Ed.): Biografisches Lexikon Herzogtum Lauenburg , Husum 2015, p. 102.
  • Benjamin Hein: Die Propsteien / Kirchenkreise in Nordelbien (Writings of the Landeskirchlichen Archiv der Nordkirche, Volume 2) , Landeskirchliches Archiv, Kiel 2016, p. 18 ( PDF - online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ John Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter 2006, p. 61 doi : 10.1515 / 9783110912746 , accessed via degruyter.com
  3. ↑ Burmester 1832, pp. 79 f., 84.
  4. ↑ Claudia Tanck in Opitz 2015, p. 102.
  5. ↑ See the example of numerous Horace parodies: Rüdiger Niehl: Parodia Horatiana. Parody term and parody poetry in 17th century Germany. In: Reinhold F. Glei and Robert Seidel (eds.): > Parodia <and Parodie / 'Parodia' and Parody. Aspects of intertextual writing in the Latin literature of the early modern age / Aspects of intertextual writing in the Latin literature of the early modern age. (= Early modern times, 12) Berlin: de Gruyter 2006, pp. 11–46 doi : 10.1515 / 9783110928402.11 , accessed via degruyter.com
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Erhardi General Superintendent of the
Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg
1628 - 1635 		Melchior Cramer
personal data
SURNAME Burmeister, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burmeister, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor, provost and general superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 1638
Place of death Uelzen