Martin Hayneccius

Martin Hayneccius (also: Heinigk, Heinecke, Hennigk, Heineccius; * August 10, 1544 in Borna , † April 28, 1611 in Grimma ) was a scholar, educator and neo-Latin poet of the 16th century.

Life

Martin Hayneccius was born as the son of the schoolmaster and mayor of Borna, Clemens Hayneccius (around 1515–1590). He attended the Saxon electoral state school in Grimma , which was directed by Adam Siber . From 1562 to 1570 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Leipzig , which he completed with a master's degree in the seven liberal arts. After that he worked as a teacher for some time in Leisnig , Chemnitz , Grimma and Amberg .

Honor roll for Martin Hayneccius in the St. Augustin Grimma grammar school (in the passage of the main portal)

In Amberg he quit school and retired to Rochlitz for some time. In 1585 he became rector of the Martin School in Braunschweig and in 1588 rector of the electoral state school in Grimma, which he remained for over twenty years until his death. He also translated his two Latin teaching comedies, which he wrote for school use, into "solid" German.

Works (selection)

• Almansor . (School Comedy) Leipzig, 1578
• Hansoframa sive Momoscopus . (School Comedy) Leipzig, 1580
• Apobaterium cum Adami Liberi ... et Jacobi Furmanni opopemtico. Leipzig 1583
• Oratio Panegyrica ad natalem tam ilustriss Princip. Frider. V. quam Ludi Prouincialis Ambergensis. Amberg 1554
• Epithalaminus in honorem Oberdorfferi. Amberg 1584
• Ludus litterarius Brunouicensis Martiniamus. Basel 1588
• Terentius et edit Haynecci. Leipzig 1592, 1606, 1624, 1634
• The German translations of his two comedies (German titles: Der Kinder Schulspiegel , Hans Pfriem or Meister Kecks ) as well as the Captivi von Plautus (under the title: Der Gefangen Menschen Treu ), Leipzig, 1582

literature

• Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff: Encyclopedia of German national literature or biographical-critical lexicon of German poets and prose writers since the earliest times, together with samples from their works. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig, Vol. 3, p. 451 ( online )
• Hayneccius, (Martin.). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 963 f.
• Paul Mayer: From the youth of the Princely School Grimma and the life of Martin Hayneccius. In: New yearbooks for classical antiquity, history and German literature and for education. Verlag BG Teubner, Leipzig, 1905, Volume 8, Issue 16, pp. 98 ff. ( Online )
• Rolf Tarot:  Hayneccius, Martinus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 157 ( digitized version ).
• Jakob Franck :  Hayneccius, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 163 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Hayneccius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Digitized works at CAMENA
• Works by Martin Hayneccius at Zeno.org .