Justus Sieber
Justus Sieber (also: Siber ; * March 7, 1628 in Einbeck ; † January 23, 1695 in Bad Schandau ) was a German Protestant theologian, philologist, psalmist and author of spiritual poetry and prose.
Life
Coming from a long-established bourgeois family, he fled the repression of the Thirty Years' War in 1640 and went on a journey in 1640 that took him to the academies in central and northern Germany. After attending grammar school in Hanover and Celle , he worked as a private tutor in Lüneburg in 1649/50 .
In addition to his work as a private tutor, he studied at the University of Helmstedt , the University of Leipzig and the University of Wittenberg . He got to know influential people who occasionally support him financially. This is reflected, among other things, in his occasional poems. After he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in Wittenberg in 1659 , he was ordained as a pastor in Bad Schandau, which position he held all his life.
His marriage resulted in 16 children. Of these descendants, three sons became doctors of theology, one doctor of law, one doctor of medicine and his daughter Charitas married the theologian Martin Chladni . The son Christian Andreas Siber is also known.
Act
Above all, Sieber became important as a poet, who also received the poet's crown from the emperor . After he had published his first large, 900-page collection of poems in Dresden in 1658, “Poetizing Youth Or All Hand Spiritual and Secular Teutsche Gedichte” , he acquired a reputation for formal expertise in the field, which resulted from high artistry and religious reliability. With his small octave band he is based primarily on the school of Martin Opitz .
In addition, his voluminous collection of samples of sermons, "Evangelische Spruch-Postill or Declaration of Princely Proverbs ..." , published in Frankfurt am Main in 1673, gained importance. In it he accompanies the reader through the entire church year and this work has been used as a reference work and textbook thanks to its extensive and detailed register. The climax of his work, however, is the work “David's Harffs Psalms” , published in Pirna in 1685 , which he initiated at the suggestion of the Saxon court in Dresden and which replaced Cornelius Becker's interpretation of the psalter .
Works
- Soul kisses, or spiritual love thoughts from the Song of Solomon. Leipzig 1653
- De salute Christiana & philosophics. Dresden 1659
- God's Church and the Devil's Chapel. Dresden 1666, 1667
- Old paul. Leipzig 1668
- Solomonic Inventions Postille. Leipzig 1669
- Ara Portatis Votorum Piorum destinata Sarificiis… Dresden 1668, 1675
- Seneca divinis oraculis quodammodo confonus. Dresden 1675
- Esau or Neidhart presented to disgust ... Dresden 1682
- Spiritual odes or songs. Pirna 1685
literature
- Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Volume 11, p. 27
- Fritz Erdmann-Klinger: in the spinning room. Volume 3, 1926, pp. 244-246, 266-270
- Georg Müller: Siber, Justus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 132 f.
- Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chursächsischen divine scholars. Wolfgang Deer, Leipzig 1742
- Sieber, Siber, Justus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 37, Leipzig 1743, column 1029 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sieber, Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siber, Jupiter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, philologist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1628 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Einbeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1695 |
| Place of death | Bad Schandau |