Samuel von Butschky

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SAMUEL OF BUTSCHKO. AND RUTENFELD.

Samuel Butschky , from 1654 Butschky von Rutinfeld (* 1612 in Namslau , Lower Silesia , † March 13, 1678 , buried in Illnisch ) was a popular - philosophical writer and poet of the Baroque period .

Butschky's father of the same name was a pastor in Namslau and only came to Breslau in 1618 . It can therefore be assumed that his son Samuel was not born in Breslau, as stated in the ADB ( lit .: ADB) , but was born in Namslau. At the University of Wittenberg , he was in 1632 as " Namslaviensis " enrolled ( Ref : Pusch) . (See also the album Academica Vitebergensis Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660) by Bernhard Weissenborn Magdeburg 1934, ed. Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt, p. 363).

family

He came from a family of pastors in Lower Silesia and was the son of pastor Samuel Butschky (1578–1638) and his first wife, née. Malesius, probably the daughter of pastor Andreas Malesius in Protsch an der Weide. Butschky married Maria Katharina Neumeister, the daughter of a bourgeoisie from Breslau, in 1654. The later priest Karl Samuel and the daughter Maria Katharina are known as children from this marriage.

Life

Butschky's father, a Silesian evangelical pastor and edification writer in Namslau, came to Breslau with his family in 1618. From November 15, 1618, his son Samuel attended Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium and then studied law from May 14, 1632 to 1637 at the University of Wittenberg and at the same time, also from 1632, at the University of Leipzig . He spent the winter semester of 1634 at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in Frankfurt (Oder) .

After a few trips he worked as a notary and bookseller in Wroclaw. Although he came from a Protestant pastor family, Butschky converted to the Catholic faith in early 1654 just to be admitted to the nobility. On February 19, 1654, Emperor Ferdinand III was in Regensburg . raised to the bohemian nobility under the name "Butsky von Rutinfeld" (so called in the nobility diploma ) . The increase was capable but not until March 8, 1660 Kaiser I. Leopold in Silesia proclaimed .

In 1665 Butschky became the imperial-royal senior office secretary at the Oberamt Breslau, in 1673 assessor at the imperial-royal court of men and state elder of the principality of Breslau . Before his death he was the last imperial councilor. He was a landowner on the Illnisch estate, where he was buried a month after his death on April 13, 1678, and Nieder-Romolkwitz in the Lower Silesian district of Neumarkt .

Butschky was considered one of the most profound and witty prose writers of his century. In his form of expression his enthusiastic piety comes to the fore, which is reflected in a clear view of the conditions of his time and of public social life. A powerful and lively prose unfolds from his wisdom, which he polemicizes from his religious and personal circumstances. Some of his literary products were self-published and produced in the “Perfertischen” printing works in Wroclaw that belonged to him.

Works (selection)

Extended High German Kanzelley, 1659/60
  • High German Venus-Kanzeley. Schweidnitz 1644 u.ö. (extended new edition under different titles)
  • Perfertischer Muusen key, for the correct spelling of the Hooch German main language. Leipzig 1645
  • Güldenes letter book , 4 parts. Breslau 1652–54
  • (Ex.) Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Euthymia. From a quiet and calm mind. Wroclaw 1656
  • (Ex.) Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Senecae Flores. Seneka's wisdom, teaching and virtue flowers. Leipzig 1661
  • Five hundred senses, spirit and teaching realms. Wroclaw 1666
  • Pathmos; Contains: strange speeches and reflections of all kinds of curiosities ... things. Leipzig 1676
  • Well-built rose valley. Nuremberg 1679

literature

List of works and references

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Samuel von Butschky dJ (1612–1678)", in: Personal bibliographies on the prints of the Baroque , vol. 2. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1990, pp. 941–948. ISBN 3-7772-9027-0

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personal data
SURNAME Butschky, Samuel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butschky von Rutinfeld, Samuel; Butschky and Rutinfeld, Samuel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION popular philosophical writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Namslau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1678
Place of death Wroclaw , Lower Silesia