Magnus Daniel Omeis

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Magnus Daniel Omeis (born September 6, 1646 in Nuremberg ; † November 22, 1708 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German poet and philosopher of the Baroque era . As a professor of rhetoric , poetry and morality , he taught at the University of Altdorf , and from 1697 under the pseudonym Damon II was in charge of the Pegnesian Flower Order , a language and literary society founded by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer with a bucolic background. From 1697 until his death, Omeis was the fourth president of the order.

life and work

Omeis, son of the deacon of the Nuremberg Church St. Sebald , first studied philosophy , then later theology at the Altdorfina . In 1667 he acquired his master's degree , a year later he was accepted by Sigmund von Birken into the Pegnese Flower Order. After years of work as court master (including in Vienna ), he was appointed professor in 1674. During his long academic career, Omeis was dean of the Philosophical Faculty in Altdorf for several years and was also twice elected rector of the same university .

Most of his work is of a (moral) philosophical nature: The Ethica Platonica , published in 1669, deals with the principles of Platonism, other writings have titles such as De voluptate , De parsimonia or De aequitate . Omeis' Poetics Thorough Instructions for the German Accurate Rhyming and Poetry (Nuremberg 1704), on the other hand, tries to establish rules for a German literary language and draws a picture of the concept of language and the orthographic customs of the flower order. In 1708 his biographical-historical work on Nuremberg writers De claris quibusdam appeared in Orbe Literato Norimbergensibus .

In 1677 Omeis married Maria Rostia, born in Spain , who was also a member of the Flower Order. He died in Altdorf in 1708 at the age of 62.

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SURNAME Grandma, Magnus Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damon ii
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and philosopher of the Baroque
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1708
Place of death Altdorf near Nuremberg