Johannes Titelius
Johannes Titelius , also Johann Titel (* in Sankt Joachimsthal ; † 1626 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and playwright .
Life
Johann Titel was born in the then Protestant Sankt Joachimsthal in Bohemia as the son of the local school principal Leonhard Titel.
Towards the end of the 16th century he worked as a cantor at the Great Council School in Kolberg . Here he published under his Latinized name Johannes Titelius in 1592 a German translation of a then much admired Old Testament tragedy by the Scottish philosopher George Buchanan . His work entitled Jephtes sive Votum. A newe Tragoedia, of the vow Jephtae of the ninth judge in Israel , was published by Joachim Rhete in Stettin in 1592 . Johannes Titelius dedicated his work to the Kolberg City Council. According to the judgment of Johannes Bolte in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1894), Titelius can “ measure himself quite well with his predecessors Bitner and Steier in terms of the fluency of expression and also surpasses the Jephta translator Nicephorus , who appeared twelve years later ”.
Johann Titel was married to Anna Funk, the daughter of a Kolberg businessman.
In 1600 Johann title became archdeacon at the Marienkirche in Rügenwalde , where he stayed until his death in 1626.
literature
- Johannes Bolte : Titelius, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 376 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 2. Stettin 1912, p. 328. (digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Titelius, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Title, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Joachimsthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1626 |