Paul Rebhun

Paul Rebhun also: Partridge, Paulus Perdix; (* around 1505 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , Lower Austria ; † 1546 in Oelsnitz / Vogtl. ) was a Lutheran pastor, educator and playwright of the 16th century. He is still considered one of the most important German dramatists of the Reformation in Saxony.

Life

Born the son of a red tanner, he came to Saxony as a child; after finishing school he studied at the University of Wittenberg . As a student he also became Martin Luther's housemate. However, since the registers of that time are very incomplete, it cannot be proven there.

In 1526, after his studies, Rebhun got a job as a cantor in Zwickau . In the same year he married Anna Thiel there. In 1529 he was promoted to schoolmaster in Kahla (Thuringia) and was transferred back to Zwickau as a teacher at the Latin school in 1535 . He received his ordination from Martin Luther in 1538 and was first appointed pastor in Plauen . Supported by Luther, he was transferred to Oelsnitz in the same position in 1542. On the advice of Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , he became pastor and superintendent for the Voigtsberg district in Oelsnitz in 1542 . Rebhun held this office until the end of his life. Above all, he appeared as a dramatist, whose works have been published several times. In it he deals with current issues, marriage issues and denounces the abuse of official authority. His works were edited by, among others, Sixt Birck , Jasper von Gennep and Nicodemus Frischlin .

Works

A spiritual play by the godly and chaste women Susannen, Zwickau 1536, 1544, Wittenberg 1537, Worms 1538, Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-008787-2 .
What causes to cover up the Christian couple / to keep the dear domestic peace in the marriage, Wittenberg 1546, 1549, 1559, 1570 Nuremberg 1556, 1569, 1571, Strasbourg 1662
Wedding game at the wedding to Cana Galileae, Zwickau 1538, 1546, Nuremberg 1572
Complaint of the poor man of worries, ynn appraisal, etc. famine. Zwickau 1540
A Christ, and necessary talk of the summa of Christ, faith and being. Leipzig without a year (created in Plauen 1538–42)
Latin dicendi formulas ..., ex Terentio collectae. Görlitz 1580 (created 1545)
Julius Tittmann (ed.): Drama from the 16th century . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1868.
- 1. Nikolaus Manuel, Paul Rebhun, Lienhard Kulman, Jakob Funkelin, Sebastian Wild, Petrus Meckel .
Hermann Palm (Ed.): Paul Rebhuns Dramen. A spiritual game. A wedding game . Litterarischer Verein, Stuttgart 1859 online - Internet Archive (see also on commons ).
Paul Casey (Ed.): The Complete Works . Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2002

Dramas , ISBN 3-906769-93-3 .
Didactic writings , ISBN 3-906769-94-1 .

literature

Wolfgang F. Michael: The German drama of the Reformation period. Bern 1984.
Paul Casey : The Susanna Theme in German Literature. Bonn 1976.
Robert Pilger: The dramatizations of Susanne in the 16th century. In: Journal for German Philology. 9, 1880, pp. 129-217.
Paul Casey: Paul Rebhun. A biographical study. Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04673-9 .
Hermann Palm: Contributions to the history of German literature of the 16th and 17th centuries. Central antiquariat of the GDR, Leipzig 1977 (reprint of the Breslau 1877 edition).
Wilhelm Kühlmann: Partridge (Rebhun), Paul, lat .: Paulus Perdix. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works of German language. 15 volumes. Volume 9. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ), pp. 320–321.
Hans-Gert Roloff: Rebhun, Paul ,. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 225 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Rebhun in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Paul Rebhun in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
Works by Paul Rebhun at Zeno.org .
Works by Paul Rebhun in the Gutenberg-DE project
Paul Rebhun in the Internet Archive
Works by Paul Rebhun in the Bibliotheca Augustana

personal data
SURNAME	Rebhun, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran clergyman and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waidhofen an der Ybbs , Austria
DATE OF DEATH	1546
Place of death	Oelsnitz / Vogtl.