Michael Caspar Lundorp

Michael Caspar Lundorp (also: Nicolaus Bellus, Gregor Erhardi; * around 1580 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 24, 1629 there ) was a German historian and writer.

Life

Caspar Lundorp's son received his first education in his hometown school. He possibly completed a degree at the University of Marburg and the University of Wittenberg , returned to Frankfurt in 1604 and became a teacher at the grammar school there the following year. In that year he made the acquaintance of Melchior Goldast , with whom he was working on an edition of Petronius. After he was removed from his teaching post in 1607, he became a writer, developing a lively activity for twenty years as a journalist, publicist, philologist and historian. The Acta publica , a collection of documents from contemporary history since the beginning of the Thirty Years War , which has seen several revisions, is considered to be his main work .

Selection of works

• Continuatio Sleidani 3rd vol. 1556-1609
• Mercurius Austri Boheme Germanicus.
• Bellum Sexennale Germanicum 3 parts 1621–23
• Political treasure trove or form of governance: That is: exquisite, beautiful discurs relations, instructions of imperial, royal ambassiators and bottschafften, or historical, royal ambassiators and bottschafften or historical, political tales from many ... 1624
• Austrian Lorberkrantz or Kayserl. Victori: That is: true ... historical description of all memorable things and Handel, so yourself ... 1627
  • 1. Volume 1627 ( digitized version )
• The Roman Imperial Majesty and the Holy Roman Empire Spiritual and secular estates, electoral and princes, counts, lords and cities acta publica and written acts, written letters, letters, reports, lessons ... 1611-25
• Breviarii sive relationis Historicae semestralis Continuatio, that is a thorough and accurate historical description of all things worth remembering so now and then ... 1629

literature

• Franz Xaver von Wegele :  Lundorp, Michael Caspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 637 f.
• Londorpius or Lundorpius, Michael Caspar. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 18, Leipzig 1738, columns 361-363.

Web links

• Works by and about Michael Caspar Lundorp  in the German Digital Library
• Entry Lundorp, Michael Caspar (1580 - 1629) in the CERL Thesaurus with numerous name variants and pseudonyms