Jonas von Elverfeld

Jonas von Elverfeld (* around 1550 probably in brim ; † after 1611 ) was a poet and administrative officer.

Life

Jonas von Elverfeld was probably a son of Johann Knipmann from Elberfeld . From 1544 he worked as a pastor in Krempe, moved to Marne in 1558 and to Meldorf in 1560 . He died in 1574. Sources that ascribe him the status of "Eques holsatus" are certainly not correct.

Von Elverfeld moved to Hamburg in 1564 . One reason for this could be a school education there. In 1571 he enrolled at the University of Jena and later joined Heinrich Rantzau . Around 1590 he worked in Neumünster . Later he worked as a ducal land and thing writer for Karrharde . In 1598 he wrote a wedding poem for J. Mauritius here. In 1609 he wrote the Pharmaceutuce Davidica , in whose preface he stated that he had a wife and children.

Works

Von Elverfeld wrote Latin poetry, including several longer homage poems that appeared individually. There were also many short poems that testify to his closeness to Heinrich Rantzau and the Cimbrian cult. From around 1590 he compiled a collection of epigrams , which he dedicated to kings, dukes and noble families as well as cities, offices and islands of the duchies. Heinrich Rantzau wrote explanations on this and financed its publication in 1592 as a book with the title De Holsatia .

In addition, von Elverfeld wrote distiches , which were always poems of praise for heroes of the Cimbri. Edited two texts from the Gesta Danorum , which bore the titles Alf and Alvilda as well as Hagbart and Signe . These works did not appear until long after his death in 1739 as an appendix to the Cimbrica Chersonesi ... descriptio nova , which Rantzau had created in 1579.

Von Elverfeld also wrote German texts that were exclusively intellectual poetry. He copied psalms and created several sacred songs, which he kept in the tradition of the folk songs of the 16th century. The pieces of music can be sung and sometimes represent counterfactures of secular songs. He only designed the title, preface and introductions to the pieces in the style of learned mannerism , using medical-pharmaceutical metaphors.

literature

• Dieter Lohmeier: Elverfeld, Jonas von . In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 95-96

Web links

• Publications by and about Jonas von Elverfeld in VD 16 .