Robert Roberthin
Robert Roberthin (born March 3, 1600 in Saalfeld , East Prussia, † April 7, 1648 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German poet of the Baroque .
Life
As the son of a pastor, Roberthin studied law from 1617 at the Albertus University in Königsberg , the University of Leipzig and the University of Strasbourg . When his father died in 1620, he took up a position as court master . Numerous trips took him to England , France , Italy and Holland . He became Brandenburg councilor and senior secretary to the ducal government in Königsberg. Roberthin was friends with the Silesian poet Martin Opitz . He discovered and promoted his fellow poet Simon Dach , who composed the funeral song "I am, Lord, in your power" set to music by Heinrich Albert . Roberthin was the spiritual center of the Königsberg pumpkin hut .
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Roberthin wrote numerous sacred and secular songs, which “surpass the learned poetry of the Silesian school by lightness and intimacy”. He had them appear under the pseudonym "Berrintho" in Heinrich Albert's arias for singing and playing (Königsberg 1638).
List of works and references
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Robert Roberthin (1600-1648) . In: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 5. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 3460–65. ISBN 3-7772-9133-1 .
literature
- Hermann Oesterley: Roberthin, Robert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 722 f.
- Thomas Diecks: Roberthin, Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 680 f. ( Digitized version ).
- August Gebauer: Simon Dach and his friends as hymn poets . Tübingen 1828.
- Hermann Oesterley: Robert Roberthin . Old Prussian Monthly 12 (1875), pp. 27–50.
- Leopold Hermann Fischer: Supplements to Oesterley . Old Prussian Monthly Bulletin 22 (1885), pp. 606–617.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1888)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roberthin, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berrintho (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saalfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1648 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg |