Johannes Salat

This article deals with the Swiss author, for the Austrian production designer of the same name see Hannes Salat .

Johannes Salat , also Hans Salat (*  1498 in Sursee ; † before October 23, 1561 in Freiburg im Üechtland ), was a Swiss court clerk , playwright and historian / chronicler . In 1538 he was the director of the Lucerne Easter Game .

Life

Johannes Salat, a rope maker like his father, lived in Lucerne from 1520 to 1540 . In six campaigns from 1522 to 1527 he participated mostly as a field clerk. Then he was also involved in the Kappel Wars. From 1531 he was a court clerk and also printed his first literary works, often with a high polemical and satirical potential. He also wrote several historical writings on behalf of the Catholic Old Places . In 1540 he lost his post for fraud. Afterwards he was a schoolmaster (1544–47), surgeon , alchemist and astrologer in Freiburg .

The estate of Hans Salat, including his diary , is in the Central and University Library in Lucerne .

Works

• Tanngrotz (description of the Second Kappel War from the perspective of the Catholic interior places in verse ), 1531.
• Triumphus Herculis Helvetici (Triumph of the Swiss Hercules; a satire on Ulrich Zwingli ), 1532 (preserved as a copy from the 17th century).
• Reformation Chronicle 1517–34 (comprehensive presentation of the time of the Reformation from a Catholic point of view), 1534. Edition : Ruth Jörg . Zurich 1986. ISBN 3-85513-151-1 (Volume 1), ISBN 3-85513-152-10 (Volume 2) and ISBN 3-85513-153-8 (Volume 3)
• The prodigal son ( drama based on the parable of the prodigal son , Lk. 15: 11–32), 1537. Edition in: Walter Haas , Martin Stern : Five comedies of the 16th century. Bern 1989, pp. 61-181. Earlier edition: Jakob Baechtold: Hans Salat's drama about the prodigal son. In: Geschichtsfreund 36 (1881), pp. 1-90.
• Eyn Nutzlichs biechlin in warnnungs wyss, at the XIII place, 1537
• Vita of Brother Klaus
  • Rights ware history, legend and life of the pious, ... Nicolausen von der Flü, born Landsman ob dem Wald in Underwalden ... , Augsburg 1537.
  • Really wonderful histori and life of the very pious devout godly godly Nicolausen von der Flü ... , Dillingen 1571.
  • The life of blessed brother Klaus from Johannes Salat, clerk in Lucern. Edited and introduced by Frz. Jos. Schiffmann (based on the 1537 edition). In: Geschichtsfreund 23 (1868), pp. 107–153.

literature

• Ruth Jörg : Salat, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Jakob Baechtold :  Salat, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 197-199.
• Heidy Greco-Kaufmann: Hans Salat . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1554 f.
• Ruth Jörg:  Salat, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ruth Jörg: The author and his work. In: Johannes Salat. Reformation chronicle 1517–1934. Edited by Ruth Jörg. Edited by the General History Research Society of Switzerland. Bern 1986 (Sources on Swiss History, N. F. I, VIII), ISBN 3-85-513-153-8 , Volume 3, pp. 11–69.
• Kuno Müller: The adventurous life of the Lucerne poet Hans Salat, 1498-1561. Lucerne 1967.
• Johannes Salat (1498–1561). Short biography and poems. In: Wilhelm Theopold : Doctor and Poet to: Poet doctors from five centuries. Mainz: Kirchheim, 1986, ISBN 3-87409-024-8 , pp. 27-31.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Salat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Digital copies of the edition of the Reformation Chronicle