Paul Zwilling

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Paul Zwilling, also: Paul Didymus (born November 6, 1547 in Torgau ; † November 6, 1581 in Torgau) was a German neo-Latin epic .

Life

He was born to the theologian Gabriel Zwilling and his second wife Dorothea Horst. Zwilling first received lessons from his father, then attended the Latin school in Torgau and then switched to the Grimma Princely School St. Augustin under Rector Adam Siber . His first place of study is not known, but it should have been Leipzig . In any case, here in 1569 he published the text: "De prima hebdomade ..." On February 15, 1572, Zwilling enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where on September 2, 1572 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in liberal arts.

In 1573 Zwilling was appointed professor of poetry and philosophy at the University of Jena , where he was elected rector in 1580 . However, he died of consumption at the age of 34, on his birthday and wedding day.

Works

  • De prima hebdomade seu mundi hominisque ortu et husius lapsu. Leipzig 1569.
  • Josephiados libri VIII totam Genesin comlectentes. Leipzig 1580.
  • De providentia divina Carmina graduum XV. Leipzig 1580.
  • Carmina Sionia seu Meletemata ex evangeliis dominicalibus. Wittenberg 1580.
  • Sacra virumque cano, qui primus Hebronis abortis migrante Isacidum de stirpe Canopia veronit littora.

literature

  • Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language. (15 volumes) Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-932544-13-7 ) Vol. 3, p. 37.
  • Gemini or Didymus, Paul. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 64, Leipzig 1750, column 1647 f.
  • Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Zwilling (called: Didymus), Paul (us)", in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide, AMF - No. 237, 2012, pp. 112–113.
personal data
SURNAME Gemini, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul Didymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Latin epic
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1547
PLACE OF BIRTH Torgau
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1581
Place of death Torgau