Polycarp Marci

Polycarp Marci (* 1654 in February, baptized 24 ^{. Jul} / 6. March  1654 ^greg. In Leipzig , † 5. January 1724 in Vienna ) was a German lawyer and librettist.

Life

Marci was the son of the Leipzig lawyer and electoral Saxon secret appellate councilor Johann Christoph Marci (1614–1672) and his wife Sabina Elisabeth, born. Leyser (1629–1673 in Leipzig) and got his first name after his maternal grandfather Polykarp Leyser II. He studied at the University of Leipzig and settled in Hamburg in the mid-1670s . In 1680 he worked here as a postman for the Swedish Post Wismar - Ystad . In March 1681 he traveled to Hanover and met Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , with whom he then began a lively correspondence (until 1716, with a long break from 1701 to 1715). From 1681 to 1683 he lived in Stockholm , then probably again in Hamburg, where in 1697/98 he was the post holder of the Mecklenburg Post to Schwerin . He moved to Vienna around 1700; here he became an agent of the Imperial Court War Council in 1705 .

In Hamburg Marci also worked as a librettist for the Opera on the Gänsemarkt ; His version of the opera Vespasian after Giulio Cesare Corradi with the music of Johann Wolfgang Franck has survived . In the first Hamburg theater dispute, Marci turned to Leibniz in 1681 with a request for a statement. Heinrich Elmenhorst then used the points of view developed by Leibniz in his answer to Marci in his work Dramatologia antiquo-hodierna - Report of those opera games (1688).

His sister Anna Maria Marci married Johann Caspar Pflaume , who later became the city judge of Leipzig.

Works

• Germanus consiliarius, sive solertia in administranda republica priscorum Germanorum. Leipzig: Fick 1671 ( digitized version )
• Klage-Wortte / with which Des Magnifici, Hoch-aedlen / Vest- und Hochgelahrten Hn. Johann-Christoff Marzi / Chur- and Fuerstl. Saechs. Secret and Appellation Raths and Churfl. Saechs. Schoeppenstuels and Loeblichen Ober-Hof -gericht zu Leipsig / well-deserved Senioris and Assessoris ... Toedlichen entry sighed. Leipzig: Wittigau, 1672
• Problema grammaticum de novo anno. Leipzig: Wittigau 1673 (disputation with Christian Friedrich Franckenstein )
• Vespasian. Hamburg 1681 ( digitized version )

literature

• Kurt Müller, Gisela Krönert: Life and work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. A chronicle . (Publications of the Leibniz Archive; 2) Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1969, DNB 457649232 , p. 65.
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: All writings and letters. Volume I / 5, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1954, p. 695 (list of correspondents).

Web links

• Publications from and about Polycarp Marci in VD 17 .
• Digitized prints by Polycarp Marci in the catalog of the Herzog August Library