Theodor Kornfeld

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Theodor Kornfeld , also Karenfeld (born January 15, 1636 in Herford , † March 15, 1698 in Holte) was an imperially crowned German and Latin poet and poet of the Baroque period .

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Life

Kornfeld spent his youth in his native Herford. In April 1658 he matriculated at the theological faculty of the University of Rostock . Further stations of his studies were the universities of Rinteln (1661) and Gießen (1664). At the University of Jena in 1665 he obtained his master's degree in theology .

In 1667 he was appointed vice-principal at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück . At the same time he was crowned poet as Poeta laureatus . In 1686 he was accepted into the German-minded cooperative as the “ Kreutzduldende” . After his retirement in 1696, he moved to his son-in-law in the rectory in Holte, where he died in a fire two years later.

Like many other baroque poets, he also wrote poetics ; Today, research is primarily interested in his artistic figure poems , which are hardly missing in any baroque anthology .

Works (selection)

  • Pericopae Evangelicae Tripartitae. Hamburg 1675 (Latin seals)
  • Self-teaching old-new poetry or verse art. Bremen 1685 (German poetics)

Literature (selection)

  • Horst Meyer: Theodor Kornfeld - a Baroque poet from Osnabrück , In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 88 (1982), 130–156
  • Robert G. Warnock, Roland Torture: The German Pattern Poem. A Study in Mannerism of the Seventeenth Century , In: Festschrift Detlev Schumann , Munich 1970, pp. 40–73

List of works and references

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Theodor Kornfeld in the Rostock matriculation portal

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personal data
SURNAME Kornfeld, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and poet of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1698
Place of death Fetched