Philipp Engelbrecht

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Title page of the Friburgica, 1515

Philipp Engelbrecht ( also: Engentinus; * around 1490 in Engen ; † September 12, 1528 in Strasbourg ) was a German humanist and poet.

Life

Engentinus studied at the University of Wittenberg from 1508 , where he obtained a baccalaureate in 1510 and a master's degree under Johann Dölsch in February 1512 . In Wittenberg he met Ulrich von Hutten during his student days . He wrote some dark allegorical distiches for his Hutteni coniuratus and thus made a contribution to his verse art. In 1514 he enrolled at the University of Freiburg , where he was appointed professor of poetics in 1515 , which he held until the end of his life.

Engentinus, who supported Martin Luther's ideas and also attracted attention at the university for not complying with the dress code, often had difficulties with the university's management staff. Nevertheless, he was in contact with the leading figures of his time. For example with Ulrich Zasius , Beatus Rhenanus , Thomas Blarer , Joachim von Watt , Johann Fabri and Johannes von Botzheim (Abstemius; * around 1480; † 1535). Erasmus of Rotterdam valued him as a poet and he participated in the Diet in Worms in 1521.

Selection of works

  • Epithalamium in nuptias Ioan. Duc. Saxoniae et Magarethae princ. De Anhalt, Wittenberg 1514
  • Friburgica, florentissimae urbis Friburgi… descriptionem complectens, Strasbourg 1515
  • Ad. III. principem Philippum Comitem Palat. Rheni… carmen paraeneticum, Basel 1517

literature

personal data
SURNAME Engelbrecht, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipp Engentinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Narrow
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1528
Place of death Strasbourg