Johann Stigel

Johann Stigel

Johann Stigel (also: Johannes Stigelius ; * May 13, 1515 in Gotha ; † February 11, 1562 in Jena ) was a German poet and rhetorician .

Life

Stigel attended the Gotha Gymnasium in the Augustinian monastery founded in 1524 by the reformer Friedrich Myconius . On October 15, 1531, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , accompanied Philipp Melanchthon on the Diet of Augsburg , where he by Emperor Charles V to the crowned poet was. On April 20, 1542 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in Wittenberg and on January 6, 1544 he was accepted as an adjunct at the philosophical faculty.

Supported by Melanchthon and the Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony , he then took on the second professorship of the Latin language, teaching grammar and Terence . In 1546 he took over the leading position at the philosophical faculty as dean . After the Schmalkaldic War he went to Jena and became professor of rhetoric at what was then an academic high school. When the University of Jena was founded in 1558, he was one of the first deans of the philosophical faculty and until 1562 professor of rhetoric. In addition, he was from 1549 to 1554, also from the summer semester 1555 to the end of the summer semester 1556, and in the summer semester 1559 rector of the Jena Alma Mater .

Since May 1544 he was married to Barbara (* Weimar ; died April 22, 1556 in Jena), the daughter of Johannes Kunholt .

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  Altenburg, Bartholomäikirche , bronze plaque with a Latin necrology on Georg Spalatin by Johann Stigel

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  Gotha, Augustinian Church , gravestone of Friedrich Myconius with the Greek and Latin epitaphs written by Stigel

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  Torgau, castle church , bronze donor plaque from 1545 with a Latin dedication from Stigel

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  University of Jena, epitaph for Johann Stigel by Peter Gottlandt Rodelstedt , 1564

Works

• Hymnum Serva Deus verbum
• Expicationem Phil. Melanchthonis de anima, Wittenberg 1575
• Commentarii in Georgica Virgilii
• Annotationes ad Libr. X in lit. Quinctiliani
• Poematum 1-9, 1567-1572
• In immaturus obitum Johannis Lucas F. Cranachii, 1537 (necrology based on Hans Cranach )
• Piae lachrymae or Christian lament, and consolation, of the sad and miserable state of the people ..., Basel 1618 doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-41854
• Liber undecimus Odysseae Homeri
• Ad Ferdinandum a Maugis carmen (introductory poem to the translation of the 11th book of the Odyssey)

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Herbert Koch: Johann Stigel , Jena 1939
• Wolfgang Klose: Wittenberger learned register The register of Abraham and David Ulrich used from 1549–1577 and 1580–1623 . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Bärbel Schneider: The beginnings of the University of Jena. Johann Stigel's correspondence in the first five years of the high school (March 12, 1548 - May 31, 1553) . Translation and commentary, Ars-et-Unitas-Verl.-Ges., Neuried 2002, ISBN 3-936117-11-X
• Walther Killy: Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0
• Karl Hartfelder:  Stigel, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 228-230.
• Thomas K. Kuhn :  Stigel, Johann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1463.
• Stigelius or Stiegel, Johann. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 40, Leipzig 1744, column 80 f.
• Christina Meckelnborg / Bernd Schneider : The Wittenberg Homer. Johann Stigel and his Latin translation of the eleventh book of the Odyssey . (Leucorea Studies on the History of the Reformation and Lutheran Orthodoxy, Vol. 28). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-04301-9

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Schneider: New studies on the older history of the Gothaer Gymnasium, in: Communications of the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research, pp. 23–55, Gotha 1913

Web links

Commons : Johann Stigel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johann Stigel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johann Stigel  in the German Digital Library