Nicolaus Peucker

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Nicolaus Peucker (also written as Nikolaus Peuker ) (* around 1620 in Kolbnitz near Jauer, Silesia; buried on February 15, 1674 in Cölln on the Spree, now Berlin ) was a German poet of the Baroque period and lawyer.

Life

Although a native of Silesia, Peucker went down in German literary history as a Brandenburg poet , as he spent most of his creative period in the Mark Brandenburg . It is known from his youth that he attended the Latin school with St. Maria-Magdalena in Breslau and was matriculated at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) around 1642 . Obviously, he studied there jurisprudence , because the next documentary assignable station of his life is a position as an electoral court clerk in Colin on the Spree, today's Berlin. His appointment as council treasurer and city judge in 1656 is also documented. After 1662 he always signed his documents as “ notary and councilor ”.

Like his Berlin friend Michael Schirmer , as a civil servant he was also able to do poetic work on a regular basis in his free time. Even at the court of Friedrich Wilhelm , the Great Elector , he quickly became known and loved as a poet, as he liked to earn extra income by making poetry for various occasions. He was on friendly terms with other poets such as Paul Gerhardt , Johann Rist and Gotthilf Treuer . Occasionally he used his poetry successfully to achieve his own goals, as the following example shows: Elector Friedrich Wilhelm had a successful wild boar hunt carried out in the Grunewald and Peucker, who could not afford such game meat on a modest income, then wrote:

The great Nimrod gives orders:
Actaeon, that's Oppen's,
Should Niklas Peukern stop his throat
with a wild pig.
He will
tie a lullaby together for it when Dorothee, the Electress after her childhood sickness
is well and happy
.

With these nice verses Peucker received a pig as a present.

Similar to the poems of Johann Christian Günther , Peucker's poems known only as single prints were only collected posthumously . New archival finds may still be possible today.

Works (selection)

  • Nicolai Peuckers… bright, funny drums. (Collection of joke poems), Berlin 1702
  • Nicolaus Peuckers <Wolklingende Paucke> and three Singspiele Christian Reuters , ed. by Georg Ellinger . Berlin 1888 (Berlin reprints I, 3)
  • (Selection) Selected poems by Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau … and others , ed. Karl Forster. Leipzig 1838 (Library of German Poets of the 17th Century 14), pp. 403–416

Literature (selection)

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Nicolaus Peucker. In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints. Vol. 4. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 3104-27, ISBN 3-7772-9122-6 .
  • Georg Ellinger : Foreword to the above edition. Berlin 1888, pp. I-XXIV
  • Julius Knopf: a Markish poet of the 17th century. In: Brandenburger Land , 1 (1934), 175 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolais Peuker . In: The Stralauer Fischzug. Legends, stories and customs from old Berlin. Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-355-00326-3 ; Pp. 53/54
personal data
SURNAME Peucker, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peuker, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolbnitz
DATE OF DEATH buried February 15, 1674
Place of death Cölln , now Berlin