Johannes Freinsheim
Johannes Freinsheim (born November 16, 1608 in Ulm , † August 31, 1660 in Heidelberg ) was a historian and philologist of the Baroque period .
Life
Freinsheim was a gifted son of wealthy parents, attended grammar school in Worms , enrolled at the age of 15 in Marburg , later in Giessen , where he studied law and politics. It was only when he moved to Strasbourg that he began attending humanistic and historical lectures on Matthias Bernegger's advice . Together with Johann Michael Moscherosch , Jesaias Rompler and Johann Matthias Schneuber , he founded the Aufrichtige Tannengesellschaft here in 1633 to keep the German language pure.
In 1634 he went to Metz as episcopal archivist . In 1637 he returned to Strasbourg as a private scholar to marry Bernegger's daughter. In 1642 he followed a call as a Skyttean professor of politics and rhetoric at Uppsala University . From 1647 he was court librarian to the learned Swedish Queen Christina . In 1650 he returned to Worms as a private scholar. When Heidelberg University reopened in 1656, he was appointed electoral councilor and honorary professor.
Works (selection)
- (Ed.) Publius Annius Florus : Rerum Romanarum . Strasbourg 1632
- Commentarii in libros superstites Q. Cvrtii Rvfi . Strasbourg 1639 (Ger. Ex. UdT From the life of Alexander the Great , Vienna 1799 etc.)
- Teutscher Tugentspiegel or Song of the Origin and Deeds of the Old and New German Hercules. Strasbourg 1639
- Orationes . Strasbourg 1662
- Supplementa liviana , 1715
Literature (selection)
- Nils Runeby: Monarchia mixta. Stockholm 1962
- Wilhelm Kühlmann: Scholars' Republic and Princely State. Tübingen 1982
- Gabriel Siemoneit: Johannes Freinsheim. Supplementa in Q. Curtium. Vienna 2019
List of works and references
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Johannes Freinsheim (1608-1660)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 3. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 1578-88. ISBN 3-7772-9105-6
Web links
- Works by and about Johannes Freinsheim in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Johannes Freinsheim in VD 17 .
- Digitized prints by Johannes Freinsheim in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freinsheim, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Historian and philologist of the baroque period |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1608 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1660 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |