Matthaeus Collinus

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Matouš Collinus z Chotěřiny
Memorial plaque of M. Collinus, 1566
(assembly hall of the Karolinum in Prague)

Matthaeus Collinus , also Collinus von Choterina, (Czech Matouš Collinus z Chotěřiny ; * 1516 in Kouřim , † June 4, 1566 in Prague ) was a Czech humanist .

Life

Matthaeus was a son of Wenzel Collin and studied from 1530 at the University of Wittenberg , among others with Philipp Melanchthon . In 1540 he returned to Prague as a Magister . There he taught the Greek language and the Latin language and literature as a professor (lecturer) at the Charles University in Prague from 1541 to 1566 and was the focus of a group of Latin-humanist poets. After mediation by the noble patron Jan Hodějovský z Hodějova , also a humanist, scholar, singer and musician, he received a coat of arms in 1542 and added the name Collinus of Choterina ( z Chotěřiny ) to his place of birth . His views, shaped by the reformer Martin Luther and attacks against utraquist clergymen led to disputes at the university.

In addition to his teaching activities at Charles University, Collinus maintained a private boarding school in Prague for noble and wealthy students from 1543 . After his marriage in 1546, he bought a house with a garden in Prague's New Town , where he continued the boarding school until his death in 1566.

Works

Collinus wrote mostly in Latin. He left behind theological, educational, but above all poetic works.

poetry

  • Elegia ... de natali ... Iesu Christi , Wittenberg 1540
  • Latro in cruce poenitentiam agens elegiaco carmine descriptus ... , Wittenberg 1540
  • Simon Cyrenaeus ... , Wittenberg 1541
  • De summa Christianae religionis ... , Nuremberg 1543, 1564
  • Carmen de sponsalibus Nicolai a Rubra Aquila ... , 1544
  • Tria epithalamia ... , Wittenberg 1545
  • Sacri argumenti hymni aliquot ... , Prague 1545
  • De coena Domini aliquot odae ... , 1546
  • Ode continens precationem ... pro pace et tranquillo statu regni Bohemiae , 1547
  • Harmoniae univocae in odas Horatianas ... , Wittenberg 1555
  • Ad invictissimum ... Ferdinandum ... regem ... , 1558
  • De Iohannis Gregorii ... baronis in Heberstain ... , Vienna 1559

Textbooks

  • Elementarius libellus ... pro novellis scholasticis - textbook in Latin and Czech for beginners, 1550, 1557, 1569
  • Nomenclatura rerum familiariorum vulgo vocabularium Latine, Bohemice et Germanice , 1555
  • Libellus synonymorum Latinorum ... , 1551
  • Aelii Donati Quaestiones de primis etymologiae elementis , 1557
  • De quatuor grammatices praeceptiunculae compendiosae ... - Grammar, 1564
  • Donati Methodus de etymologia ... , 1564, 1588

See also

literature

  • Lexicon české literatury 1 (AG), Academia Praha 1985, p. 364
  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna, 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 207
  • Lothar Schletz: The masters of the artistic faculty of the High School in Prague and their writings in the period from 1409 to 1550, 1971, 98 ff.
  • Rukověť humanistického básnictví v Čechách a na Moravě od konce 14. do začátku 17. století 1, 1917 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Collinus, Matthaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collinus z Chotěřiny, Matouš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1516
PLACE OF BIRTH Kouřim
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1566
Place of death Prague