Jost Dages
Jost Dages (* 1600, † before 11. October 1635 ) was a from Lübeck originating Eisenschneider , goldsmith and draftsman .
Life
He learned the goldsmith's trade from his father, who was also called Jost Dages. Jost Dages the elder - he was married to Barbara, they had five children (Gerdt, Jost, Franz, Tönnies and Barbara) - was a goldsmith and tiller in the village of Ovendorf near Lübeck from 1594 to 1624 .
On September 6, 1622, the journeyman goldsmith Jo (b) st Dages the Younger - he was married to Anna Maria, they had six children (Anthonius, Hans Georg, Johannes, Loisa Barbara, Fridericus and Johannes) - from Count Johann Georg (Hohenzollern -Hechingen) as embossing cutter (also: iron cutter ) temporarily accepted and sworn in for the mint in Hechingen for six months . In this mint workshop, Kreuzer , Bätzner, Gulden and Taler were made until July 1623 . Jost Dages' weekly wage was eight florins .
From at least 1625 Jost Dages the Elder lived. J. in Pforzheim , Margraviate Baden- Durlach. Jost Dages the Elder J. died probably as a result of direct or indirect warfare before the birth of the sixth child. From 1631 to 1635 Pforzheim was under the rule of the Swedish general Gustav Graf Horn during the Thirty Years War . In 1644/45 the city was destroyed by Bavarian troops. In 1690 the city was plundered and burned down three times by French troops.
plant
Jost Dages the Elder J. drew a 'Pforzheim city view'. It was engraved and printed in copper by Stephan Michelspacher . The scientific city archivist of the city of Pforzheim said: “It is different with the engraving by Dages and Michelspacher. Looking at it, one gets the impression that they copied Merian down to the last detail - in text and legend. Even the spelling of the city name corresponds to that of Merian. Boats, people and animals, the carts and the timber, all these scenes encounter the viewer again. This is important because, in contrast to the structure of the buildings, they could be changed. So it is likely that Dages and Michelspacher took Merian as a model ”.
Since Jost Dages d. J. but died before 1635, he must have drawn the then city of Pforzheim between 1625 and 1635. This is the only dating feature. Thus, this representation actually shows the city of Pforzheim before its destruction in 1644/45. A Pforzheim copper engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder. Ä. is therefore out of the question as a direct model. The Topographia Suevia (Swabia) as part of his 17-volume city views Topographia Germaniae was not published until 1643 .
In the book "Art and Artists at the Baden-Durlacher Hof", the author Hans Rott (historian) even claims that Merian used pictures by various artists by re-engraving, "without naming the author" and "without us knowing ... in which way Merian got the full right of disposal over the templates. ”.
Hans Rott mentions there a. a. Another work by Jost Dages: "A number of engravers captured the portrait of the margrave in more or less remarkable art, ... and also a local master, the Pforzheim goldsmith Jost Dages ...". What is meant here is the Margrave Friedrich V (Baden-Durlach) .
etymology
Dag has its roots in Germanic * daga- , Old Saxon dag , Old High German tag "and means" day; bright time; time of light ". The origin of the Celtic , where dag means " good ". Dag was originally a Germanic nickname .
The frequent use of the name Jost (Jodokus, Jos, Joost, Jobst, Josse, Joostema, Joyce etc.) as a first name in many places goes back to the veneration of Saint Jodok (* around 620 Brittany + December 17, 658 | priest , hermit , Pilgrims ), the second patron of pilgrims, who began especially along the numerous European pilgrimage routes from the 9th century .
St. Jodok was the son of the Breton ruler Judhael - during his reign the diocese of Aleth (later called Saint-Malo ) was founded - and his wife Prizel and his name goes back to the Celtic meaning 'warrior, fighter.'
Varia
The German family name Dages comes from the Lübeck area. But there are currently original Dages in southwest France and Catalan Spain . This can be traced back to the fact that the Visigoths settled there at the end of the migration in the fifth century. Dag name forms were used by the Goths .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Letter from Jost Tages the Elder, goltsmit, of June 15, 1614 to the administrator of Tuschenbeck, Rantzau and Schoneweide, Antoni Meyer
- ^ Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübecker Niederstadtbuch .
- ↑ The coinage and monetary system of the principalities of Hohenzollern by Dr. Emil Bahrfeldt , Berlin, 1900, p. 44f and p. 57.
- ^ Regional church archive of the Evangelical Higher Church Council Karlsruhe , church book of the Pforzheimer Stadtkirche.
- ^ Pforzheim City Archives .
- ^ "Pforzheim, a city in pictures", 2004, pp. 8 and 9; Lecture by Dr. Stefan Pätzold , scientific city archivist Pforzheim.
- ↑ a b "Art and artists at the Baden-Durlacher Hof until the founding of Karlsruhe" by Hans Rott , Karlsruhe, 1917, p. 85 & p. 91
- ↑ a b Historical German First Name Book , Vol. 1, AE, Wilfried Seibicke , Berlin-New York 1996, p. 457, ISBN 3-11-014445-X .
- ↑ Saints and namesake in the course of the year, Vera Schauber, Hans Michael Schindler, Pattloch Verlag Augsburg 1993, p. 640
- ↑ a b Saint Jodocus, his life and his admiration, at the same time a contribution to the history of German naming, Jost Trier, Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim 2008, 2nd reprint of the edition Breslau 1924, p. 5 and p. 87 to 89
- ↑ The Goths, From the Beginning to the Middle of the Sixth Century; Draft of a historical ethnography, Herwig Wolfram , 4th edition, Munich, 2001, p. 178 ff, ISBN 3-406-33733-3 .
- ^ Hispano-Gothic name book, The precipitation of the Visigoth in the old and present names of persons and places of the Iberian Peninsula, Joseph M. Piel and Dieter Kremer, Heidelberg, 1976, p. 111, ISBN 3-53302410-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dages, Jost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German goldsmith and draftsman (Lübeck) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1600 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before October 11, 1635 |