Lorenz Rhodomann

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Lorenz Rhodomann

Lorenz Rhodomann (also: Laurentius Rhodemann, Laurentz Rhodemannus, Rodeman, Rosemann ; born August 5, 1546 in Lower Saxony ; † January 8, 1606 in Wittenberg ) was a German educator, Lutheran theologian, historian and philologist.

Life

The son of the day laborer Valentin Rosemann had attended the local village school and, after the early death of his father, attended the city school in Stollberg . Here he was able to secure his living as a choir student and private teacher and enjoyed further lessons at the Latin school in Heringen . In 1557 he attended school in Nordhausen and in 1561 the school in Magdeburg .

In 1562 he was given a free position at the Ilfeld convent school , where he became a favorite student of Michael Neander (pedagogue) , under whose leadership he further developed his language and literature skills in order to later work at his side as a teacher. In order to be able to provide for his relatives, he returned to his hometown, where he acted as a sexton and as a school teacher. At the same time he continued his studies and when his mother had entered into a third marriage, the way to Ilfeld was again open for him, where he developed further under Neander and acquired an excellent reputation as a poet.

However, he did not have sufficient funds to complete a degree. So he took on a few private tutor positions, among other things became court master of the prince of Duke Otto in Harburg and had saved so much money that he was able to move into the University of Rostock in February 1571 . In Rostock he was accepted by David Chyträus , who got him a rector position in Schwerin that same year . In order to acquire the necessary academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences, he received his doctorate on May 8, 1571 and then took up his post as rector in Schwerin. A year later he was appointed by Eberhard von Holle as rector of the Michaelis School in Lüneburg , soon to marry Adelheit NN. and remained in that position for twelve years. In 1584 he changed as rector of the Latin school of the Walkenried monastery and held the highest parish office there. In 1591 he was appointed professor of Greek language and history at the University of Jena , received the poet's crown from Paul Melissus in 1592 together with Friedrich Taubmann , became dean of the philosophical faculty in Jena and rector of the alma mater in the summer semester of 1597 .

After working in Jena for seven years, he moved in 1598 to succeed Kaspar Jentzkow at the Stralsund grammar school founded in 1560 as rector. In Stralsund he had contact with Joseph Justus Scaliger , who recommended him to the electoral Saxon court in 1601, as professor of history at the University of Wittenberg . He took up this position on October 10, 1601, and it gave him the leisure to complete his great Greco-Latin edition of Diodorus Siculus and to complete extensive studies of the late Greek epic poets. His academic duties consisted of lectures on Justin , on church history, on the world chronicles of Sleidanus and Melanchthon . Rhodomann, who had also been dean of the philosophical faculty in the winter semester of 1602, had remarried in Wittenberg on August 7, 1604 after the death of his first wife. However, the marriage remained childless, as he suffered from symptoms of exhaustion the following year and died at the beginning of 1606 as a result of the same.

Selection of works

  • Historia vitae et doctrinae Martini Lutheri carmine herico descripta.
  • Ilfelda Hercynica. Frankfurt 1581 ( online )
  • Descripto historiae ecelesiae sive populi Dei politiae ejusdem et rerum praecipuarum, quae in illo populo acciderunt, graeco carmine cum versione latina e regione textus graeci.
  • Poesis Christina, ie Palaestinae seu historiae sacrae graeco-latinae libri. Frankfurt 1589
  • Argonautica Thebaica, Ilias parva
  • Tabulae etymologiae graecae ... Leipzig 1590 ( Online )
  • Historia Ecclesiae ... Frankfurt 1581 ( Online )
  • Epithalamia sacra
  • Ex Memnone, de tyrannis Heracleae Ponticae, Cresia et Agatarchide excerptae historiae graecae et latinae partim ex Laur. Rhodomanni interpretation. Genev. 1593
  • Theologiae christianae tyrocinia carmine heroic graeco - latino in 5 libr. Digesta. Leipzig 1596
  • Homerus confutatus
  • Troy ex pugnata
  • Oratio, Qua studium Historiarum iuventuti Studiosae historice commendatur: Habita in praelectionis Historicae auspiciis, & dedicata… Wittenberg 1601
  • Orationes de lingua graeca et de vita Philosophica. Jena 1634
  • Catechism geminus graeco-lat. German. Leipzig 1626
  • Opus aureum Michaelis Neandri. Leipzig 1575
  • Diodorus Siculus (with Latin translation and annotations) Hanover 1604

literature

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There is no evidence that the future Rev. Andreas Wacker could have promoted him. Andreas Wacker, who came from Nordhausen to the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1545 (Erler: Matr. Uni. Leipzig, p. 905), was a preacher in Deuna from 1564 to 1578 (he married in 1567), became a clergyman in Appenroda (Johann Arnold Zeitfuchs: Stolbergische Kirchen- und Stadt-Historie. P. 441) and was pastor from 1590 to 1607 in Lower Saxony (Pfb. KpS. P. 179)
  2. ↑ his mother married again after his father's death. However, this man had died again, so that the mother needed his help with some underage children
  3. ↑ Registration of Lorenz Rhodomann in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Doctorate to the Magister of Lorenz Rhodomann in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ↑ Gymnasium zu Stralsund 1840 - invitation to public examination and speech practice , p. 18 ff. ( The Rectors from 1569-1616 ), supplement in: Sundine: Unterhaltungsblatt für Neu-Vorpommern and Rügen , Volume 14, Hauschildt, 1840 (digitized version)
  6. ↑ AAV II. 485, 5
predecessor Office successor
Kaspar Jentzkow Rector of the Stralsund grammar school
1598 - 1601 		Lorenz Zircman
personal data
SURNAME Rhodomann, Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurentius Rhodemann; Laurentz Rhodemannus; Rodeman; Rosemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, Lutheran theologian, historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1606
Place of death Wittenberg