John Owen (writer)
John Owen ( Latinized Iohannes Audoenus ; * around 1564 in Bettws Garmon on Snowdon ; † 1622 in London ) was a Welsh writer.
He studied at Winchester and New College , Oxford , where he received his bachelor's degree in civil law in 1590. In about 1595 he became director of the King's School in Warwick . He was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral, London, not to be confused with St Paul's Cathedral .
John Owen became known for his Latin epigrams , which show understanding and spirit at a high level. They have been translated into English, French, German and Spanish.
He had already started writing in Winchester, in fact the training there consisted essentially of writing epigrams. Those he wrote at the age of 16 were good enough to be used in a ceremony when Queen Elizabeth I paid a state visit to Francis Drake on his ship in Deptford after the latter returned from his circumnavigation . In 1606 John Owen began publishing his epigrams. They became known across Europe almost overnight and earned him (despite his Welsh origins) the nickname The British Martial .
expenditure
- John RC Martyn (Ed.): Ioannis Audoeni epigrammatum vol (umen) I. Libri I – III. Brill, Leiden 1976, ISBN 90-04-04718-2
- Sylvain Durand (Ed.): John Owen: Épigrammes / Epigrammata. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2251801315 (edition with French translation)
literature
- Titika Aslanidou: Johannes Audoenus († 1622): The books VIII-X . Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 2007 ( full text )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Owen, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Audoenus, Iohannes (Latinized); the English martial |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Welsh writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1564 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bed linen Garmon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1622 |
| Place of death | London |