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Simon Dach (born July 29, 1605 in Memel , Prussian Lithuania , † April 15, 1659 in Königsberg , Duchy of Prussia ) was a German poet of the Baroque period.

Life

Simon Dach was the son of a court interpreter for the Lithuanian language . He first attended the large city school in Memel , then the cathedral school in Königsberg and then switched to the Latin school in Wittenberg . During his stay at the high school in Magdeburg the plague broke out and he fled back to Königsberg via Danzig . At the age of 21, far away from the events of the Thirty Years' War , but in the midst of the Polish-Swedish War (1600–1629) , Dach enrolled at the University of Königsberg in 1626 for philosophy and theology . After completing his studies, he became a teacher at the cathedral school in 1633 , and three years later he was vice principal . His friend Adriaen Brouwer opened up the world of literature to him and his sovereign, Elector Georg Wilhelm (Brandenburg) , appointed him professor of poetry at Albertus University in 1639 . In 1640 Dach received his doctorate in Königsberg, and in 1656 he became rector of the university. In this post he was very successful. The Great Elector gave him two years later the estate Kuikeim at Konigsberg. Dach was a leading head of the Kürbishütte ( Society of the Mortality Devoted ), the garden house of the cathedral organist Heinrich Albert . Johann Franck , Christoph Kaldenbach , Robert Roberthin , Valentin Thilo the Younger and Georg Weissel met with the landlord and roof to play music or read their own poems. Johann Schimmelpfennig also belonged to the circle .

Badger's phenomenal, almost industrial production of poetry for all occasions and the favor of the provincial bishop offered him a lucrative additional income. With astonishing skill he continuously produced casual poems to order, which were always printed, often three or four a week. The Germanist Gerhard Dünnhaupt records more than 1200 individual prints of these poems between 1638 and 1658, which were collected by his contemporaries. Dach has never published a book. Of the secular poetry of Badger, only Anke van Tharaw has survived. The authorship was controversial at times, but is now considered certain. This, besides Grethke, why heffstu mi was his only song in Low German , he wrote in 1636 for Anna Neander, the bride of the preacher Johannes Portatius. Johann Gottfried Herder later translated it into the High German form in which it is known today: Ännchen von Tharau . Many of Badger's poems were set to music by Heinrich Albert and Johann Stobäus , the cantor of the cathedral school. At the age of 49, Simon Dach fell ill with tuberculosis in 1654 , which he succumbed to after five years.

"Man has nothing so particular, nothing is due to him except that he can show loyalty and keep friendship."

- Simon roof

Works

  • Simple-minded corpse-rhymes: The former honor and virtuous Frawen Catharinen Pohlinn . Johann Reusner, Königsberg 1653. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • The teachers will shine like the gleam of heaven: That is: Guilty how much simple memory The Weiland venerable / respectable and Wolgelarten Mr. Babatio . Johann Reusner, Königsberg 1656. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • On the blessed how the highly personal step out of this world / The time high noble-born and men of men / Hn. Christoff Rappen: Which 1607th 22nd New Year's mon. born and 1657. 27th winter mon. gently and blissfully asleep in the heartfelt invocation of his Redeemer / and in 1658. 12. Hornung [...] of the earth was incorporated: The heartily saddened High Adeliche Fraw widow and children sampled the other noble sufferers to comfort . Johann Reusner, Königsberg 1658. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Poems , 4 vols., Ed. Walter Ziesemer , Halle 1936–38.

Poems

  • Simon Dach's last pleading
  • To Dorinden
  • To a nymph
  • Auff Leßbien
  • The best time to love
  • The desire
  • The red '
  • Friendship song
  • Praise love
  • Praise the same
  • Perstet amicitiae semper venerabile Faedus!
  • Who has planned
  • Ännchen von Tharau
  • Last speech by a once proud and about to die virgin

Living memory

In the short story Das Treffen in Telgte by Günter Grass (1979), Simon Dach is the protective roof of the fictional poets' meeting: a homage to Hans Werner Richter and Gruppe 47 .

Two of his hymns I am, Lord, in your power and O, how blessed are you, you pious ones were later set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach . Even Max Reger wrote about the latter song's identical Choralkantate.

In the evangelical calendar of names , April 14th is Badger Memorial Day .

See also

literature

  • Alexander J. Birt: Simon Dach . Königsberg: Gräfe & Unzer 1905.
  • Hermann Oesterley: Simon Dach . Tuebingen 1876.
  • August Gebauer (Ed.): Simon Dach and his friends as hymn poets . Tübingen: Osiander 1828.
  • Alfred Kelletat (ed.): Simon Dach and the Königsberg poet circle . Reclam, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-15-008281-1 .
  • Bruno Nick: The feeling of nature at Simon Dach . Diss. Univ. Greifswald 1911.
  • Heinrich Stiehler: Simon Dach . Hartung, Königsberg 1896.
  • Barbara Sturzenegger: Simon Dach and Paul Fleming: Topoi of friendship in the 17th century. Diss. Univ. Bern 1996.
  • Hermann Oesterley:  Roof, Simon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 685-688.
  • Carl Johann Cosak, Karl Johannes Hermann Jacoby:  Roof, Simon . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 4, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1898, pp. 395-401.
  • Willi Flemming :  Roof, Simon. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 464 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Roof, Simon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1189–1191.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Albrecht Schöne: Kürbishütte and Königsberg. Model experiment for a socio-historical decipherment of poetic texts using the example of Simon Dach. Munich, CH Beck, 2nd A. 1982. ISBN 3-406-05878-7
  • Ivar Ljungerud: Ehren-Rettung M. Simonis Dachii in: Euphorion 61 (1967), pp. 36-83. On Dach's authorship to Anke van Tharaw
  • AH Brillowski and FJ Horn: Directory of the poems of Simon Dach collected so far . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 22, Königsberg 1839, pp. 458-475.
  • Continued index of the poems by Simon Dach . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Königsberg 1840, pp. 89-93.
  • Wulf Segebrecht : The dialectic of rhetorical praise of the ruler. Simon Dach's last Fleh-Schrifft In: Volker Meid (Hrsg.): Poems and interpretations. Vol. 1: Renaissance and Baroque Reclams Universal Library No. 7890. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-15-007890-7
  • Jürgen Manthey : Poetry in Königsberg (Simon Dach and the Königsberger Kürbishütte) , in this: Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic . Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-423-34318-3 , pp. 48-58.

List of works and references

Web links

Commons : Simon Dach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Adolf Wiese : The higher school system in Prussia. Historical-statistical representation. Berlin 1864, p. 56
  2. ^ Friedrich Scholz: The literatures of the Baltic States. Their creation and development . (= Treatises of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften , vol. 80). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990. ISBN 3-531-05097-4 . P. 100.
  3. ^ Alfred Kelletat (ed.): Simon Dach and the Königsberg poet circle . Reclam, Stuttgart 1986 (pp. 383 to 386)
  4. ↑ Ivar Ljungerud: honor Rescue M. Simonis Dachii. In: Euphorion 61, 1967 (pp. 36 to 83)
  5. ↑ Simon Dach in the ecumenical dictionary of saints
personal data
SURNAME Roof, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel , Prussian Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1659
Place of death Königsberg , Duchy of Prussia