Johannes Löwenklau

Johannes Löwenklau, also: Johann Lewenklaw, Leunclavius, Amelsburnus (* probably July 1541 in Coesfeld , † June 1594 in Vienna ) was a German legal scholar, Graecist and historian.

Life

Löwenklau studied from 1555 at the University of Wittenberg with Philipp Melanchthon , in 1562 he moved to the University of Heidelberg , where he studied law from 1563 and went to the University of Basel in the winter semester of 1566 . He had already been chosen as the successor to the professorship of the Graecist Wilhelm Xylander in Heidelberg. Since he was considered a cryptocalvinist , he came after the death of Friedrich III. from the Palatinate , due to the change in church politics, no longer into office.

From 1565 onwards, the scholar, who was dependent on patrons, went on extensive journeys that took him to the Orient and on which he gained the reputation of an expert on Turkish history from his contemporaries. He was at the Sublime Porte in Constantinople in 1584/85 . Before that, he spent two years at the court in Turin, from 1580 to 1581 at the court of the Este in Ferrera, also undertook extensive trips through Germany and was most recently active in Moravia. In addition, Latin and Greek dedicatory and occasional poems are known by him, which he wrote in distich form. He has also worked as a translator of the works of the Church Fathers of Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianz, as well as the historian Dio Cassius and other Byzantine historians.

Selection of works

• Ξενοφώντος ἅπαντα τα σωζόμενα βιβλία / Xenophontis et imperatoris & philosophi clarissimi omnia, quae extant, opera , Basel: Thomas Guarin 1569
• Annales Svltanorvm Othmanidarvm , A Tvrcis Sva Lingva Scripti… (based on a translation by Hans Caudir von Spiegel ), Frankfurt / M. 1588, 1596, (online) in the Munich digitization center
• Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, De Monumentis Ipsorum Exscriptae, Libri XVIII , Frankfurt / M. 1591, (online) in the Munich digitization center
  • under the German title Hansen Löwenklaus Neue Chronika Turkish Nation Frankfurt 1590, 1595
• Xenophons , Basel 1594 posthumous translation
• Plutarch , Basel 1565 Translation
• Apologia , 1576, Frankfurt / M 1588
• Ecloga sive Synopsis Basilicorum , Basel 1575
• Paratitela , Frankfurt / M 1593
• Iuris Greco-Romani tam canonici quam civlis tomi duo , Frankfurt / M 1596 posthumous edition by M. Freher.

literature

• Adalbert Heinrich Horawitz :  Löwenklau, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 488-493.
• Dieter Metzler :  Löwenklau, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 95 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Pál Ács: Pro Turcis and contra Turcos: Curiosity, Scholarship and Spiritualism in Turkish Histories by Johannes Löwenklau (1541–1594). In: Acta Comeniana , Volume 25 / XLIX (2011), pp. 25-46 ( online ).
• Franz Babinger : origin a. Hans Löwenklaw's youth. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 98/99 (1949), pp. 112–127
• Franz Babinger: Johannes Lewenklaw's end of life. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 50 (1951), pp. 5–26
• Franz Babinger: Addendum. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift vol. 105 (1955), p. 97
• Santo Mazzarino : The End of the Ancient World. Munich 1961, pp. 98-110.
• Erich Trunz : German late humanism around 1600 as a class culture (1931). In: Richard Alewyn (ed.): Deutsche Barockforschung, Cologne-Berlin 1968, pp. 147–181
• Hans Erich Troje: Graeca Leguntur. The appropriation of Byzantine law… in Jurisprudence of the 16th Century Cologne / Vienna 1971, pp. 110–114, 264–269.
• Konstantin G. Pitsakis: Leunclavius ​​neograecus In: Rechtshistorisches Journal 13 (1994) pp. 234-243.
• G. Grimm: Löwenklau In: Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas 3 (1979) p. 27
• Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Gütersloh, Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Dieter Metzler: Johannes Löwenklau. In: Robert Stupperich (ed.): Westfälische Lebensbilder. Vol. 13, 1985, pp. 19-44

Web links

• Adam, Melchior: Vitae Germanorum philosophorum, qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, philosophicis ac humanioribus literis clari floruerunt. Latin
• Neuwe Chronica Türckischer Nation , 1595, e-book of the University Library Vienna ( e-books on demand )