Johannes Riemer

Johannes Riemer, engraving by Christian Romstet (1687)

Johannes Riemer (born February 11, 1648 in Halle (Saale) ; † September 9, 1714 in Hamburg ) was a German writer and theologian of the Baroque period. His pseudonyms are: Clemens Ephorus Albilithanus, Johann Christlieb, Bellarminus Coccyx, Galanisantrus, Erasmus Grillandus, Michael Kautzsch, and Philogamus from Paphos.

Life

Riemer attended grammar school in his hometown Halle and then enrolled in Jena , where he studied rhetoric and theology . Originally, he intended to embark on an academic career, and around 1672 he chaired several academic disputations. In 1673 he was appointed to the chair of eloquence and poetry at the academic high school in Weißenfels as the successor to Christian Weise .

Here he published numerous writings, which not infrequently showed his fellow citizens in small towns in a critical light. Particularly with regard to the no less time-critical novelist Johann Beer , certain tensions seem to have existed. Beer's partially misogynous writings were criticized several times by Riemer. When Beer later published his “ anti-feminist ” novel The Political Fire Mower , an anonymous reply was published in 1682 under the title The turned-out political fire mower , which is today - probably not without good reason - attributed to Riemer.

Apparently the Weißenfelser small town quarrels contributed to Riemer's decision in 1687 to accept a pastor's position in Osterwieck . In 1691 he went on to Hildesheim as superintendent , which office he held until in 1704 he was appointed senior pastor at the Jacobikirche in Hamburg - an office previously held by the eloquent Johann Balthasar Schupp . He stayed here until his death in 1714.

Works (selection)

• De Proportione Musica Veterum Et Nostra Disputationem Academicam Amplissimae Facultatis Philosophicae permissu Pro Loco in Eadem obtinendo Publico Examini sits M. Johannes Riemer Saxo-Hall . Respondents Davide Funccio, Valleioachimico. Bauhofer, Jena 1673. ( digitized version )
• The blown Dorothea of ​​the oldest Olearic line . Brühl, Weißenfels 1677.
• The Ertz Slanderer And Marriage Teuffel Of Scotland. Chamfered in a game of grief . Brühl, Weißenfels 1679.
• Vitia virtuosa sexus feminini ex dolis, bellis et duellis mulierum historico et politico filo contexta . Buchta, Weißenfels 1680. ( digitized version )
• The political colic, or the tearing in the body of the school-sick people, which in some cases were entitled to lie in bed without aching in their bodies . Fritzsche, Leipzig 1680. ( digitized version )
• The weakened fraternization of the four oldest Sachßen heroes: After ... Mr. Augustus ... As a donor ... of the world famous Augusti On June 4th of this 1680th year ... died and July 22nd. Brühl, Weißenfels 1680.
• RRRR Funny rhetoric or two-part speaker . In which a completely new way to the art of speech, however, with nothing but astonishing and ridiculous equilibrium but true examples, speeches and compliments for amusement and understanding of the whole oratoria, even serious speeches are thereby shown to imitate. Forberger, Merseburg 1681. ( digitized version )
• The Regent Best Hoff Master Or Funny Hoff Parnassus. As in the same happiness and misfortune of high heads in the government with zeal for the state, unrest and peace alliances; ... presented . Brühl, Weißenfels 1681. ( digitized version )
• Uber-rich treasure master of all high rank and bourgeois joy and sorrow compliments, from which without teaching masters, well-speaking and singing, that is, oratorio and poetic styles extremely easy to learn: with parables wise electoral sayings Scholars, historical examples, reimagined patterns and beautiful realities ... Lunitzius, Leipzig 1681. ( digitized version )
• The unfaithful Ertz slanderer, or, bad man. All those Those who truly have fallen to the nechsten shame ... . Forberger, Merseburg 1682. ( digitized version )
• The political, funny and yet well mannered Simplician Hasen-Kopff . 1683. ( digitized version )
• The funny political peek. Wherein the strange super-cleverness, simulation, indecision and malicious follies of today's world ... Weidmann, Leipzig 1684.
• The drunken dreamer or delusional self-deception . 1684. ( digitized version )
• The freshly and fully poured beer glass. In all sorts of incidents which curious minds for special driver pleasure . Gottschick, Merseburg 1685. ( digitized version )
• Amor Der Tyranne With his ridiculous Reuterey style of play, in earnest as a warning against the damned jealousy: In two partly historical events, Curieuse's minds presented . Merseburg, Forberger 1685.
• Last monument of Weyland's most noble princess and women, Johannen Magdalenen, bored and married Hertduchess of Sachßen, Jülich, Cleve and Berg ... Set to unforgettable praise and honor . Brühl, Weißenfels 1686. ( digitized version )
• Apophthegmatic guardian, or oratorial lexicon: consisting of 1556. thoughtful and partly funny and instructive examples ... Forberger, Meseburg 1687. ( title page )
• Johann Riemer's new rising star orator, after the regent orator enlightened from the core of the German language, fetched with new rules ... multiplied . Gleditsch, Leipzig 1689. ( digitized version )
• Written and instructive parable speeches. At the festival and Sunday Evangelia. Particularly inside. Christ color and Teuffels larva Dennen the wicked to Schimpff and Schröcken ... In Gantz new allegories According to certain art rules The Topica ... promoted to Liecht . Wolfenbüttel, Bismarck 1690. ( digitized version )
• The Political and Funny Tobacks Brother. That is: Special description of the noble herb of tobacco. Darbey all sorts of funny incidents and ridiculous histories so ... with all sorts of new Tobacks songs that have never been published before . 1690. ( digitized version )
• Pale fear and greening hope during sleepless nights of oppressed Christians between heaven and hell . Forberger, Merseburg 1695. ( [9 } digitized version])
• The improved pleasure orator, increased almost to the third part . Dumpling. Leipzig 1717. ( digitized version )
• Faded Christianity clearly taught and thoroughly explained on the basis of the apostolic festival and Sunday epistles ... Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1719.
• The Politische and Kurtzweilige stick fish therefore ridden by Posta, in boot and spur with it. All sorts of sweet and sour things in today's world-style with many histories that are so likely to be true as they are ridiculous ... picked out . Burger, Frölichs-Burg 1724. New edition Hildesheim 1980. ( digitized )
• Solande in love and Floramene in love . Frankfurt, Schönleben 1734. ( digitized version )
• The swept away political firecracker. [Reprint, ed. by Gerhard Dünnhaupt .] (=  Rarissima litterarum. ), Vol. 59. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7772-9605-8 .
• The political foot monkey . Hildesheim 1979. [Reprint of the 1679 edition.]
• Faded Christianity . Edited by Helmut Krause. Berlin 1983.
• Works [selection]. Edited by Helmut Krause. 4 vols. Berlin 1979–1987.

List of works and references

• Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johannes Riemer (1648-1714). In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints. Volume 5. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9133-1 , pp. 3319-3349.

Literature (selection)

• Max von Waldberg:  Riemer, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 564 f.
• Waldemar Fromm:  Riemer, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 597 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Matthias Wolfes :  RIEMER, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp.NN.
• Waldemar Huala: Johann Riemer's novels. Comparative studies on the political novel of his time . Diss. Los Angeles 1975.
• Kenneth Graham Knight: Weise, Riemer and the 'Political Novel'. In: Saecula spiritualia 5 (1982), pp. 529-537.
• Ernst Osterkamp : "The Riemer who still lives in death". In: Michigan Germanic Studies 11 (1985), pp. 185-202.
• Helmut Krause: Feather versus sword . For the literary mediation of the bourgeois worldview in Johannes Riemer's work. Hofgarten Verlag, Berlin 1979. ISBN 978-3-88433-001-2 .

Web links

Commons : Johannes Riemer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Johannes Riemer  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Johannes Riemer in VD 17 .
• Literature by and about Johannes Riemer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Digitized prints by Johannes Riemer in the catalog of the Herzog August Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Friedrich Mayer	Principal pastor at St. Jacobi in Hamburg 1704–1714	Erdmann Neumeister