Martin Limburger

Martin Limburger (born January 29, 1637 in Kraftshof ; † February 7, 1692 ibid) was a Nuremberg Protestant pastor and poet in the Pegnese Flower Order .

life and work

The son of the pastor Peter Limburger studied after being informed by his father in the Greek and Latin languages and the visit of the Nuremberg Holy Spirit School from 1651 in Altdorf Theology , where he in 1656 his master's examination completed. In the same year he was named a crowned poet .

In 1662 he was accepted by Sigmund von Birken in the Pegnese Flower Order under the name Myrtillus II . In 1663, based on the model of Johann Helwig's nymph Noris (1650), he wrote a larger, shepherd's funeral pamphlet for Jobst Christoph Kress the Elder. , the Cressic Temple of Honor .

In 1664 he succeeded his father at the patronage church of the Nuremberg patrician family Kreß von Kressenstein in Kraftshof near Nuremberg, after he had been assigned to his father as vicar in 1660. Since that time he wrote a number of occasional poems for members of the patrician family and participated in community writings of the Pegnitz shepherds.

Between 1676 and 1678, Limburger built the Irrhain near the Kraftshof parish church as a new meeting place for the Pegnitz shepherds . Several entries in his diaries bear witness to his close relationship of trust with Birken. After Birken's death, Limburger was elected as his successor as President of the Order. In 1683 he published a large funeral pamphlet on the Birken, who had died two years earlier, the Sorrowful Pegnesis .

As President of the Order, Limburger advocated drawing the attention of the Nuremberg public to the activities of the Order of Flowers with jointly written mourning and wedding poems. After Birken he was the last to succeed, after which the public's interest in a literary form that was increasingly perceived as out of date dried up.

literature

• Renate Jürgensen: Utile cum dulci. The heyday of the Pegnese Flower Order in Nuremberg from 1644 to 1744. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-447-03578-1 .
• Renate Jürgensen: Magister Martin Limburger (1637–1692). Myrtillus II. - the flower prince . In: The Franconian Rome . Wiesbaden 1995, pp. 342-363
• Renate Jürgensen: Melos conspirant singuli in unum. Repertorium bio-bibliographicum on the history of the Pegnese Flower Order in Nuremberg (1644–1744) . Wiesbaden 2006

Web links

• Publications by and about Martin Limburger in VD 17 .