Johannes Kuen

Johannes Kuen , also Khuen, also Johann Kain (* 1606 in Moosach , near Munich, Duchy of Bavaria ; † November 14, 1675 in Munich , Electorate of Bavaria ) was a German Catholic poet of the Baroque era .

The talented farm boy received a scholarship from the village pastor at the Jesuit College in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) and graduated in 1625. He studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1630. In 1631 he became chaplain of the Church of St. Peter in Munich , where he received a benefice in 1634 . From these two benefits he lived modestly until the end of his life.

Kuen wrote a large number of sacred songs as well as neo-Latin and German poems with mostly moralizing statements, which were published in large anthologies. His hymns have a distinctly popular character. He often uses the topos of death as the last, just instance. Kuen's songs had far-reaching influence, including a. on Abraham a Sancta Clara . Even Clemens Brentano took some of them in Des Knaben Wunderhorn on.

literature

Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johannes Kuen (1606-1675) , in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 4. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9122-6 , pp. 2435-2443.
Adalbert Elschenbroich: Khuen, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 572 f. ( Digitized version ).
Georg Westermayer : Khuen, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 375.

Web links

Literature by and about Johannes Kuen in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Johannes Kuen in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 47 (there: Kain, Johann).

personal data
SURNAME	Kuen, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Khuen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH	1606
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moosach ( Upper Bavaria )
DATE OF DEATH	November 14, 1675
Place of death	Munich

[1] Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 47 (there: Kain, Johann).