Juraj Láni

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Juraj Láni (German Georg Lani ; Hungarian Lányi György ; pseudonym David Constans * the 30th May 1646 in Trenčianska Teplá ( Upper Hungary , now Slovakia ); † 24. January 1701 in Leipzig ) was a Slovak Lutheran clergyman and poet.

Life

Orphaned at an early age, Láni attended several schools in Slovakia and began studying theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1667 . Above all, Abraham Calov and Johann Deutschmann were his teachers here. In 1669 he enrolled at the University of Rostock. After returning to his homeland in 1670 he became pastor and principal of a school in Krupina (German carp ). In the course of the Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Empire, which had been forced since 1673 (see Märtyrer von Eperjes # background ), he was deposed and, because he continued to teach and preach, sentenced to death in Pressburg in 1674 together with over 100 other Protestant pastors and teachers, which was then a galley penalty was converted. During the transport to Naples, however, he managed to escape shortly before his destination in May 1675. He found exile in Leipzig, where he received his master's degree in 1676 and the bacc in 1683 . theol. attained. After long efforts he was appointed teacher at the Nikolaischule in 1684 . As early as 1696 he retired due to his poor health.

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As early as 1675 Láni published a first report on the trial and its history as well as the escape, which he later expanded considerably. The work was translated several times and into several languages ​​by 1696 (Latin 1676, English and Dutch 1677). This was followed by a lengthy dispute with the Jesuits Nicolaus Kellio and Georg Heidelberger, in which Láni (under the pseudonym David Constans ) accused the Catholic Church of religious persecution. In 1682 he published a lengthy treatise on the history of martyrdom , in which he classified his own destiny. In 1685 he published the Latin-German school drama Agapetus scholasticus seductus et reductus . He also wrote sacred poetry in the Slovak language.

literature

  • Otto Kaemmel: History of the Leipzig school system from the beginning of the 13th to the middle of the 19th century (1214–1846). BG Teubner, Berlin 1909, pp. 208-212.
  • Ernst Eichler : Life and work of the Slovak writer Georg Lani in Leipzig. In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 5, 1960, pp. 565-579.
  • Eva Kowalská: Günther, Klesch, Láni and the others. On the typology of the Hungarian exiles of the 17th century. In: Acta Comeniana 20-21, 2007, pp 49-64.
  • Zsombor Tóth: Persecutio decennalis: az evangélikus perspektíva lehetősége - Lányi György példája. In: In via eruditionis. Tanulmányok a 70 éves Imre Mihály tiszteletére. Egyetemi Kiadó, Debrecen 2016, ISBN 978-963-318-575-9 , pp. 424–437.
    • Translated as: Persecutio decennalis (1671–1681). The Lutheran Contribution to the Emergence of a Protestant Martyrology in Early Modern Hungarian Culture: The Case of Georgius Lani. In: Luther in Calvinism. Image and Reception of Martin Luther in the History and Theology of Calvinism (= REFO500 Academic Studies 42). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 323–341 ( PDF file ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ To this - on the basis of Lanis later report - Otto Kaemmel: History of the Leipzig school system: From the beginning of the 13th to the middle of the 19th century (1214-1846). 1909, p. 210.
  3. ↑ Kurtzer and yet warrior historical extract of the cruel and almost unheard of Papist prisoners. ( Digitized version )
  4. ↑ Captivitas Papistica. Historical story of the Papist prison. Sl 1675 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Oratio VI: De martyrio. In: Exulis Hermathena Sive Orationes Panegyricae Diversi ... Argumenti . Rußworm, Leipzig 1682, pp. 212-246 ( digitized version ); on this in detail Zsombor Tóth: Persecutio decennalis (1671-1681). The Lutheran Contribution to the Emergence of a Protestant Martyrology in Early Modern Hungarian Culture: The Case of Georgius Lani. In: Luther in Calvinism. Image and Reception of Martin Luther in the History and Theology of Calvinism (= REFO500 Academic Studies 42). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, pp. 333–338.
  6. ↑ digital copy ; on this Ludovít Petraško: The Agapetos history - more than a contemporary document. The Latin-German baroque drama by Georg Lani. In: Ders .: From a distance: Slovak-German (not only) literary relations. disserta, Hamburg 2015, pp. 32–39.
personal data
SURNAME Láni, Juraj
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lani, Georg; Lányi, György; David Constans (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak Lutheran clergyman and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Trenčianska Teplá , Upper Hungary , today Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1701
Place of death Leipzig