Petrus Lotichius Secundus

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Petrus Lotichius Secundus, copper engraving by Matthäus Merian, 1626

Petrus Lotichius Secundus or Peter Lotich the Younger , actually Peter Lotz (born November 2, 1528 in Niederzell near Schlüchtern , † November 7, 1560 in Heidelberg ), was a scholar and neo-Latin poet and professor of medicine in Heidelberg.

Life

Peter Lotz (Latinized humanist name: Petrus Lotichius Secundus) was born on 1528 in Niederzell, today a district of Schlüchtern (Hesse), in the county of Hanau . In his childhood (1535/1537) he attended the monastery school in Schlüchtern, founded by his uncle Abbot Petrus Lotichius (Peter Lotz the Elder). His brother Christian Lotichius was the deputy abbot of the Schlüchtern monastery. He received his first suggestions for Latin poetry from the Frankfurt humanist Jakob Micyllus . From 1544 he began studying in Marburg , soon after moving to Leipzig to Joachim Camerarius and from there to Wittenberg to Melanchthon . In the winter of 1546/47 he served as a soldier in the Schmalkaldic War on the Protestant side near Magdeburg . In 1548 he acquired the degree of Magister Artium in Wittenberg. In 1550/51 he traveled to Paris as the companion of the nephews of the Würzburg Canon Daniel Stibar (see also Erasmus Neustetter called Stürmer ). At the end of 1551 he began studying medicine and botany in Montpellier , which he continued in Padua at the end of 1554 and graduated in Bologna in 1556 when he received his doctorate. After a short stay in Heidelberg in 1556 he moved to Schlüchtern. In 1557 he was appointed professor of medicine and botany by Elector Ottheinrich in Heidelberg , where a group of younger poets quickly gathered around him. His medical activity was limited to the practical exercise of his profession , possibly based on the teaching of Paracelsus . He had been afflicted by repeated fever attacks since 1556 and died (possibly as a result of poisoning from the Bolognese period) as an important German poet of his time on November 7, 1560. He had previously turned down a call to Marburg received in 1560 for health reasons. His successor at Heidelberg University was Georg Marius , whom Lotichius had met around 1555.

Lotichius Secundus did not write any medical or scientific writings, but left behind an extensive oeuvre based on classical models of poetry. What is praised in his poetry is the skillful penetration and adaptation of literary specifications and models while at the same time individually shaping the world and self-experience of his epoch. The first versions of his poems learned from him in the course of their reprints during the author's lifetime. T. multiple revisions. Large reverberation in the 17th and 18th centuries found its most finished in autumn 1552 elegy 2.4, in which he called serious but unsuccessful siege of the fixed to the Lutheran Protestantism in gloomy grübelndem tone and with dread-inducing images of Magdeburg by troops of the Catholic Kaisers themed. After the siege and destruction of Magdeburg in 1631 by Tilly's troops ( Magdeburg wedding ) in the Thirty Years War Lotichius Secundus was assigned the rank of poet prophet. A quickly circulating German translation has long been attributed to Martin Opitz ; in fact, it comes from the printer Gregor Ritzsch . The poems of Peter Lotichius were translated into German by Ernst Gottlob Köstlin and published in 1826.

Poems (selection)

Christmas

Lonely on the beach in the far west,
I wait with weary courage,
the day when you, for my good, will
accept my poor flesh and blood,
noble, divine boy.

But no, no mourning today,
let go of what worries you,
let us ring the Christmas bells,
even where the sun is shining from the south.

Works

  • Elegiarum liber; Carminum libellus - Paris, 1551
  • Elegiarum liber secundus; Venator - Lyon, 1553
  • Carminum libellus - Bologna, 1556
  • Poemata - Leipzig, 1563
  • Opera omnia - Leipzig, 1586
  • Opera omnia ; quibus acc. vita eiusdem, ex luculenta Ioannis Hagii narratione breviter concinnata. Heidelberg: Vögelin, 1603 ([12], 363, [1] p.).
  • Poemata omnia , edited by Pieter Burman the Younger (2 vols.). Amsterdam: Schouten 1754. Reprint of the edition Amsterdam: Schouten 1754: Olms: Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1999 (with extensive Ad lineam commentary)
  • Petri Lotichii Secundi… Poemata quae exstant omnia , selectis P. Burmanni et CF Quelli notis illustrata, recensuit, praefatus est notasque suas et indicem adiecit CT Kretzschmar. Dresdae: Gerlach 1771 (xviii, 555 p.) (With extensive Ad lineam commentary)
  • [Eleg. II, 4; I, 2; Carmina: Ad Ioannem Altum poetam suavissimum; In effigiem militum Germanorum; De puella infelici; Ecloga 2] Latin poems by German humanists. Lat. - German Selected, trans. and. explain By Harry C. Schnur (Reclam UB 8739). Stuttgart: Reclam (1966) 2., verb. Edition 1978, pp. 252-279 (Latin-German text). 453-457 (Ex.).
  • [Eleg. I, 5; I, 8 ;; I, 11; II, 4; III, 6; III, 10; V, 16; V, 19; VI, 5; VI, 8; VI, 31; VI, 34; Carmina I, 15; II, 2; II, 7] Summa Poetica. Greek and Latin poetry from Christian antiquity to humanism. Edited by Carl Fischer. With an afterthought by Bernhard Kytzler . Munich: Winkler 1967, pp. 720-737.
  • [Eleg. II, 4, together with the German adaptation long ascribed to Martin Opitz ] Herwig Heger (Hrsg.): Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation. Texts and certificates. Part 2: The heyday of humanism and the Reformation (German literature. Texts and testimonies II / 2). Munich: CH Beck 1978, pp. 479-485.
  • [Eleg. I, 11; V, 21; V, 28] German Renaissance humanism. From the Latin. Outline, selection, translation, annotations, timetable, epilogue, bibliography and list of people by Winfried Trillitzsch (Reclam Universal Library 900). Leipzig: Reclam 1981, pp. 533-539.
  • [Eleg. I, 1-11; II, 3; II, 4; II, 6; II, 7; III, 3; III, 4; IV, 2; Carmina: Ad Clusium; Ad Acin fontem; In effigiem militum Germanorum; De puella infelici] Humanistic poetry of the 16th century. Lat. and German [...] selected, transl., explan. and ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann , Robert Seidel and Hermann Wiegand ( Library of German Classics 146). Frankfurt a. M .: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 1997, pp. 396–497 (Latin-German). 1178-1239 (Lit .; Comm.).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eberhard Stübler: History of the medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg. 1386-1925. Heidelberg 1926, p. 54.
  2. ^ Text in Heger (1978), Vol. 2, pp. 479-485.
  3. ^ Cf. Marian Sperberg-McQueen: Did Opitz Translate Lotichius' Elegy on Magdeburg? In: Modern Language Notes 96 (1981), pp. 604-612.
  4. ↑ Reproduced in the German version after Anne (lore) von Sydow, geb. Flemmig, who got this poem from her godfather, the Schlüchtern honorary citizen Georg Flemmig , who loved this poem very much.
personal data
SURNAME Lotichius Secundus, Petrus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and neo-Latin poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1528
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederzell, Schlüchtern
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1560
Place of death Heidelberg