Simon Schaidenreisser

Simon Schaidenreisser , also: Simon Minervius (* around 1497 in Budissin ; † after June 20, 1572 in Munich ) was a German writer and humanist .

Life

Schaidenreisser can be recorded for the first time in the matriculations of the University of Wittenberg in 1515, where he acquired the academic degree of a Baccalaureus in 1516 after studying liberal arts . He can then be found in 1523 at the University of Basel , where he completed his master's degree in 1523 and is to be found in 1525 as the rector of the later Latin school in Munich. There he was city ​​poet until 1534 , then worked as a city clerk , treasurer and court clerk .

plant

He maintained contact with other humanists and gained importance as a translator. He is the author of the first German translation of the Odyssey , which marks the beginning of the German-language version of Homer . In addition, one of his works is the translation of Cicero's “Paradoxa Stoicorum” published in Augsburg in 1538 . Nothing has survived from a translation of Homer's Iliad that has apparently begun .

literature

• Horst Brunner (Hrsg.): The German Trojaliteratur of the Middle Ages and the early modern times. Materials and research . (= Knowledge literature in the Middle Ages; Vol. 3). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-88226-473-X , p. 131 ff.
• Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German . 15 volumes. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh and Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Georg Westermayer :  Schaidenreißer, Simon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 552 f.
• Winfried Zehetmeier: Simon Minervius Schaidenreisser. Life and writings . Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1962

Web links

• Simon Schaidenreisser in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )