Paul Jakob Rudnick

Paul Jakob Rudnick (* around 1718 in Bütow in Western Pomerania ; † around the turn of the year 1740/1741 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German writer .

Rudnick attended the grammar school in Danzig from 1730, where one of his classmates Ewald Christian von Kleist had been. From 1736 Rudnick studied philology at the University of Jena . When he got into financial difficulties after the death of his father, he went to Halle an der Saale as a fencing and language teacher. There he worked on a satirical and lyrical work in which his literary friends Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , Johann Nikolaus Götz and Johann Peter Uz had high hopes, but which, due to his early death, remained unfinished and was not published. Rudnick is considered a co-founder of German anacreontics .

Works

• Today's object of my imagination . Parody, published in the satirical paper Amusements of the Mind and Joke , 1746.

• Ode about the carelessly burned down church at Glaucha near Halle . Prose poem, published in the satirical sheet Amusements of the Mind and Joke , 1746.

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition (Rudolf Vierhaus. Ed.), Volume 8, Saur, Munich 2007, p. 593.
• History of German Poetry - From the Middle Ages to the Present ( Walter Hinderer , ed.). 2nd edition, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 9783826019999 , p. 155 .
• Wolfram Mauser: Concepts of an Enlightened Lifestyle - Literary Culture in Early Modern Germany . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 9783826018602 , p. 124 .
• Carl Schüddekopf:  Rudnick, Paul Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 477 f.