Richard Sbrulius

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Richard Sbrulius, also: Riccardus Sbrul, Richardus Sbrolius (* around 1480 in Cividale del Friuli or Udine ; † after 1528), was an Italian-German humanist and poet.

Life

The scholar, who came from a knightly family, appeared as a traveling poet on German soil in Bonn as early as 1505 , where he wrote a decastichon for the elector Frederick the Wise . In the same year the Roman-German King and later Emperor Maximilian I named him Poeta Laurus at the Reichstag in Cologne . He translated the book Teuerdank into Latin verse. He met the elector himself in 1507, through the mediation of Maximilian I, at the Diet of Constance.

The elector then took him to his newly founded University of Wittenberg , where he made him professor of poetics and rhetoric. On the instructions of the university, he obtained the baccalaureate in 1507 and in 1508 was master of the seven liberal arts .

The passionate poet came out first with erotic poetry, which aroused the displeasure of the Wittenberg poets, who denounced his way of life. In poems they recommended cures for his mania for love, so that Sbrulius later dealt with religious poetics. He also lectured on contemporary poets with preference, but neglected the classical authors.

Sbrulius was regarded as one of the most important humanists at the Wittenberg University and associated with Otto Beckmann , Kilian Reuter , Christoph von Scheurl , Theodoricus Block , Georg Sibutus and others. In 1510 he got into a dispute with Ulrich von Hutten , who was expelled from the Wittenberg University as a restless head. In 1511 he left Wittenberg and began an intensive wandering life. In the summer semester of 1511 he matriculated at the University of Leipzig . In October 1512 he lived in Erfurt , where he was admonished by Scheurl about having a relationship with a prostitute. Helius Eobanus Hessus attacked him because of his qualities as a poet.

Sbrulius left Erfurt, enrolled at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in the summer semester of 1513 and went to the University of Cologne in 1516 , where he made the acquaintance of Erasmus von Rotterdam . It seems that he was in Basel in 1519, and that he was also in Löwen and Trier . In 1522 he switched to teaching at the Latin school in Freiberg in Saxony . Here he remained true to his favorite subject as a teacher of the Greek language and literature. He wrote an elegy on the noble metals, the foaming beer, the lovely maidens, the richly decorated cathedral, and the wise Senate of the city. Sbrulius again moved to the University of Frankfurt / Oder, where his traces are lost. Possibly he went back to the imperial court.

Selection of works

  • Ad Christ. Scheurlum extemporal Carmen. Wittemberg, 1507
  • In Maximiliani Caesaris PF Aug. Obitum Nenia. 1519
  • De mira potentia Naturae,
  • Naenia in Maxim. Obit.
  • Elegia in Carol. Imperate.
  • Panegyr. in Freder. Sax. Elect. Chleomakh. L. I triumph. Princip. Brandenburg.
  • Vaticanum Protei
  • In Caroli V. Imp. Felicem in Germaniam ex Hisp. Reditum & c.
  • Elegia in laudem Freibergae
  • Elegia de mira potentia natuare metallaria.
See also:
  • Johann Albert Fabricius: Bibliotheca latina mediæ et infimæ aetatis. T. Baracchi et f., Florence, 1858

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SURNAME Sbrulius, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sbrolius, Richardus; Sbrul, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-German humanist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Cividale del Friuli or Udine
DATE OF DEATH after 1528