Paul Georg Krüsike

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Paul Georg Krüsike (born October 10, 1641 in Schleswig , † April 9, 1723 in Hamburg ; also written Krüsicke ) was a German poet.

Life

Born the son of a city secretary, he spent his youth in Pritzwalk and Schwerin , where his father was called. He received a higher education at the Latin schools in Schwerin, Quedlinburg , Erfurt , Naumburg and Neuhaldensleben . The reasons for this multiple change are not known. In 1666 he went to the University of Jena to study law there, soon after he moved to the University of Helmstedt and in 1668 to the University of Altdorf .

After traveling through Germany many times, from 1669 he worked as a court master in various places in Mecklenburg. Krüsike came to Hamburg in 1675 and lived here as a private teacher. After he had turned down multiple appointments, including professorship for poetry at the University of Rostock, in 1679 he became a third-class teacher at the Hamburgisches Johanneum . In 1683 he was promoted to sub-principal, on April 27, 1699, he acquired the academic degree of master's degree in philosophy at the University of Wittenberg , became vice-principal of the Johanneum in the same year and retired in this office in 1719 .

Krüsike had received the poet's crown and was a member of the poetic society of the Zesen Order of Roses under the name “the wearer” . He was an extremely skilled poet in Latin and Greek, whose strength lay primarily in the easy command of form. His gimmicks, such as the creation of a poem of 142 verses in which each word begins with the letter S, were admired in his time. In 1686 he published “Versus Mnemonici de Imperatorum Regumque Europaeorum successione” , 1689 “Lyra querula in exequiis Philippi a Zesen moestissimo pollice pulsata” . His son, Johann Christoph Krüsike , also gained importance.

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personal data
SURNAME Krüsike, Paul Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüsicke, Paul Georg (spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1723
Place of death Hamburg