Kaspar Stiblin

Kaspar Stiblin , Latin: Gasparus Stiblinus (* 1526 in Amtzell ; † 1562 or 1563 in Würzburg ) was a German teacher of ancient languages at the time of Renaissance humanism .

Life

From 1548 on, Stiblin studied in Freiburg im Breisgau , graduated from Baccalaureus in 1549 and Master of Artium in 1550 . He then began to study Latin at the artist faculty , but no more is known. In 1553 he fled from the plague to Schlettstadt (French: Sélestat), where Beatus Rhenanus had died six years earlier and had bequeathed his library to the city. Until 1559 he worked there as a Latin teacher. Then he was rector of the Latin school in Freiburg im Breisgau until 1561. In 1561 he received a professorship for Latin at the Paedagogium Illustre in Würzburg , which he accepted, but was only to be able to enjoy for a short time.

Works

Stiblin is known for three works, a treatise on the upbringing of girls ( Coropaedia ), a Utopia On the State of the Blessed ( de Eudaemonensium republica commentariolus ), which is appended to the previous work, and an annotated Euripides edition comprising 18 tragedies, including translation. He had his works printed mainly in Basel by Johannes Oporinus . Other small writings are published in various places.

List of publications (selection)

• Coropaedia, sive de Moribus et vita virginum sacrarum, libellus…, Gasparo Stiblino autore. Eiusdem de Eudaemonensium republica commentariolus , Basileae per Joannem Oporinum, 1555, (online)

• Euripides poeta tragicorum princeps, in latinum sermonem conversus, adjecto e regione textu graeco ... autore Gasparo Stiblino. Accesserunt Jacobi Micylli de Euripidis vita ... item de tragoedia et ejus partibus prolegomena quaedam; item Joannis Brodaei ... annotationes doctiss., nunquam antea in lucem editae. Basileae, per Ioannem Oporinum, 1562, (online)

• Euripidis tragoediae quae extant , cum latina Gulielmi Canteri interpretatione… Scholia doctorum virorum in septem Euripidis tragoedias, ex antiquis exemplaribus from Arsenio, Monembasiae archiepiscopo, collecta. Accesserunt doctae Johannis Brodaei, Gulielmi Canteri, Gasparis Stiblini, Aemilii Porti in Euripidem annotationes ... Genovae, excudebat P. Stephanus, 1602.

literature

• Luigi Firpo, Franz Becker: The first German utopian: Kaspar Stiblin. In: The State. Volume 2, No. 4 (1963), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1963, pp. 451-470.
• Herbert Jaumann: sv Kaspar Stiblin . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.), Killy Literaturlexikon, Volume 11, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, pp. 259–262, (excerpts online)
• Donald J. Mastronarde : The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, p. 10, (online)

Web links

• Information on Gasparus Stiblinus in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Donald J. Mastronarde: Stiblinus' Prefaces and Arguments on Euripides (1562) (edition and translation only of the Praefationes and Argumenta from Stiblin )