Petrus Fabricius

Petrus Fabricius , Latinized from Schmidt , (* probably 1587 in Tondern / North Schleswig ; † August 9, 1650 in Warnitz / North Schleswig or 1651 in Aabenraa ) was a Danish pastor and composer.

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Petrus Fabricius was the son of the Tondern merchant Jacob Schmidt, who died after 1609, and his wife Anna, née Glasser. His second cousin was Jacob Fabricius the Elder . His life data are not documented consistently. According to the church book of Warnitz he would have died there on August 9, 1650. This happened four weeks before the age of 71, Fabricius' birth year 1579. He studied from March 1603 and would have been 23 years old by then, which can be described as rather unlikely.

According to Johannes Moller's Cimbria literata , the year of birth was 1587, which seems more reliable. One reason for this assumption is that he was one of the school friends of Georg Calixtus , who was born in 1586. The data in the church register probably come from second hand.

Fabricius probably grew up in Tondern and initially went to school there. In a letter to Calixtus, he moved from a Flensburg school to the University of Rostock, where he enrolled in March 1603. He chose the Latinized form of the paternal family name. In addition to studying theology, he dealt with music. He wrote an honorary poem about the theory of composition Musica Poetica by Joachim Burmeister . There were also studies of mathematics and astronomy. He had these areas of interest in common with his college friend Peter Lauremberg .

Fabricius received his master's degree in November 1608. In 1610 he took up a position as adjunct to pastor Petrus Paludanus in Bülderup and followed him three years later as pastor. In 1614 he married Maria, whose father Andreas Jacobi Scerbecius († 1619) was pastor in Scherrebek . His wife was a niece of Johannes Scherbeck . The couple had a daughter and four sons who later worked as pastors in North Schleswig.

In 1617 Fabricius moved to Warnitz as pastor and stayed here until the end of his life. Until 1700 the pastor's position was taken over by one of the sons and a grandson.

During Fabricius' time in Warnitz the Thirty Years War broke out . The emperor's riders occupied the parish from autumn 1627 until the Treaty of Lübeck . In the process, they took money, grain and food worth 300 marks from Fabricius.

Works

From 1605 on, Fabricius published an astronomical calendar every year for more than forty years. Copies of this have not survived and have not been proven. Since Fabricius was posthumously referred to as a hard-working astronomer in the Duchy of Schleswig, it can be assumed that the calendars actually existed. Johannes Moller mentioned letters that Fabricius had received from educated friends such as Jacob Fabricius the Elder and Georg Calixtus.

Fabricius wrote an extensive book of songs and lutes. The handwritten work is kept in the Royal Library in Copenhagen. He created most of the collection during his student days, during which Lauremberg also made entries. The book contains nearly 150 songs, many of which are folk songs and are originally in Low German. There are also 200 German, Polish, English, French, Italian and Polish dances in a tablature for lute. In addition, it contains 26 chorale melodies, idioms and riddles.

The collection made by Fabricius is larger than similar books published at the same time. The student environment and lifestyle are characteristic. Most of the secular lyrics can also be found in other handwritten and printed works. The musical recordings, however, are unique. Many notations are unknown beyond Fabricius' notation, such as the melody of the well-known song dedicated to Klaus Störtebecker .

Fabricius recorded the melodies in normal notation. He often added his own tablature for lute, which is technically and artistically demanding. How Fabricius had the skills to create such a collection is not documented.

literature

• Johannes Bolte: The song book of Petrus Fabricius , yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research, 1887 (published 1888)
• Ralf Jarchow: Johannes Nauclerus - Lautenbuch , Glinde 2010 (facsimile and commentary)
• Ralf Jarchow: Petrus Fabricius - Lute and Song Book , Vol. 1 & 2, Glinde 2013 (facsimile, transcription and commentary)
• Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 140–142
• Kurt Gudewill :  Fabricius, Petrus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 738 ( digitized version ).
• Roland Wohlfart: The song manuscript of Petrus Fabricius - Kgl. Bibl. Copenhagen, Thott. 4 ° 841 , Lit, Münster 1989 (dissertation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 140.
2. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 140.
3. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 140.
4. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 140.
5. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 140.
6. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 140–142.
7. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 142.
8. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 142.
9. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 142.
10. ↑ Dieter Lohmeier: Fabricius, Petrus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 142.