Caspar von Barth
Caspar von Barth (born June 21, 1587 in Küstrin , † September 17, 1658 in Leipzig ) was a German philologist and private scholar of the Baroque period .
Life
Barth comes from an old noble family. His father Carl von Barth was the Brandenburg Privy Councilor and Chancellor of Neumark with the official seat in Küstrin. The gifted boy attended schools in Eisenach and Gotha and enrolled in Wittenberg in 1607 , where he heard Latin poetry under Friedrich Taubmann . It was also Taubmann who aroused his interest in classical literatures. After a short stopover in Jena, he embarked on a ten-year educational journey, which enabled him to make personal contact with great scholars from all over Europe. His fortune gave him the luxury of pursuing his humanistic and philological inclinations undisturbed.
After his return, he lived for many years in Halle (Saale) , where, thanks to his possessions in the salt industry, he belonged to the patriciate of the Halloren or salt lords. He later moved to his country estate in Sellerhausen near Leipzig, which was burned down by enemy troops in 1636. So his valuable library with precious manuscripts fell victim to the flames. He spent the rest of his life in the Paulinum in Leipzig , where he could pursue his studies undisturbed in the immediate vicinity of the university library.
His work includes philological editions and commentaries on classical texts of a high academic level. It is therefore undoubtedly unfair to underestimate him as a learned dilettante. His as yet unprinted handwritten estate is preserved in Zwickau.
Works (selection)
- Iuvenilia , Wittenberg 1607 ( digitized version )
- Amabilium Libri IV , Hanover 1612 ( digitized version )
- Adversariorum commentariorum (in 60 books), Frankfurt 1624, 2nd edition 1658 - an extensive collection (of approx. 3000 pages) of the most varied of learning material, which deals not only with classical, but also with medieval and contemporary authors
- Commentaries on Claudian , 1650
- Commentaries on Statius , 1664
literature
- Valéry Berlincourt: Commenter la Thébaïde (16e – 19e s.). Caspar von Barth et la tradition exégétique de Stace. (= Mnemosyne Supplementa, Volume 354). Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013.
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Caspar von Barth (1587-1658) . In: Personal bibliographies on German Baroque literature . Volume 1. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9013-0 , pp. 400-421 (list of works and literature)
- Friedrich August Eckstein : Barth, Kaspar v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 101 f.
- Johannes Hoffmeister: Kaspar von Barth's life, works and his "German Phoenix" . Heidelberg 1931
- Adalbert Schröter: Caspar von Barth . In: Contributions to the history of neo-Latin poetry . (= Palaestra; 77). Berlin 1909, pp. 267-325
- George Schulz-Behrend: Caspar Barth and his copy of Opitz ' "Eight Books of German Poematum" . In: Daphnis 11 (1982), pp. 669-682
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzlaff-Eggebert: Barth, Caspar von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 605 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Caspar von Barth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Caspar von Barth in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Caspar von Barth in VD 17 .
- Digitized prints by Caspar von Barth in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
- Tripota - Trier portrait database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barth, Caspar von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barth, Kaspar von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1587 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Küstrin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 17, 1658 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |