Timothy Polus

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Timothy Polus (* 1599 in Lauchstädt , Electorate of Saxony , † March 2 . Jul / 12. March  1642 greg. In Tallinn ) was poetry professor at the Tallinn School and an important mediator of baroque poetics in Estonia .

biography

Timotheus Polus went to school in Halle and was enrolled at Leipzig University in 1610 . In 1623 he studied at the University of Strasbourg . At the latest in March 1628 he arrived in Tallinn and received a position as a teacher. With the establishment of the Tallinn Grammar School in 1631 he became a professor of poetics there. In 1632 he was briefly dismissed as a result of a dispute with the city council, but after an apology he was able to continue his work there until his death.

In 1631 Polus married Elsken (Elisabeth) von Wehren, a daughter of the Tallinn citizen Thomas von Wehren. The marriage produced at least three children were born: Johann (es) († Oct. 9 . Jul / 19th October  1674 . Greg ,) the pastor in Haapsalu was, Thomas (1634-1708), the Swedish Legation Secretary, Councilor and teacher of later King Charles XII. was, and the young deceased daughter Christine († May 3 jul. / May 13,  1635 greg. ).

Literary activity

Already during his studies in Strasbourg Polus got to know the poetics of the German baroque poet Martin Opitz , which he had elaborated in his book von der Deutschen Poeterey (1624). The basic idea behind this new poetics was, among other things, that one could also write poetry in languages ​​other than classical languages ​​such as Latin and Greek . As a result, Polus also wrote occasional poetry in German.

When Reiner Brocmann arrived in Tallinn in 1634 and the next year the German baroque poet Paul Fleming also stayed there for a long time, they joined together - with Timotheus Polus, among others - to form a so-called shepherd society , in which one devoted themselves to casual poetry. In addition to German and Latin poems, Estonian poems were also created, and Reiner Brocmann can be seen as the founder. Most likely it is thanks to Timotheus Polus that the Opitz rules were also applied in Estonia.

The Estonian writer Herbert Salu wrote the novel Lasnamäe lamburid ('The Shepherds of Lasnamäe', 1978).

literature

  • May Redlich Lexicon of German Baltic Literature . Cologne: Science and Politics 1989, p. 253.
  • Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600-1657) . 1, 2. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005, here Volume 1, pp. 274–295.
  • Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, pp. 117, 127.
  • Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. From the Middle Ages to the present . 1-2. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2007, here Volume 3, pp. 1032-1037.
  • Kristi Viiding: The literary background of early Estonian secular writing: the current situation and future perspectives in research, in: Ross, Kristiina / Vanags, Pēteris (eds.): Common Roots of the Latvian and Estonian Literary Languages. Frankfurt am Main et al .: Peter Lang 2008, pp. 147-163.
  • Aigi Heero: White Spots in Estonian Literary Historiography. Timoteus (sic) Polus and the Revaler Gymnasialkreis, in: interlitteraria 15/2 (2010), pp. 457–471.
  • Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Polus (or Pole), Timotheus (1599-1642) . In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600-1657). Volume 1, Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005, p. 280.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Laurenty: The Genealogy of the old families Reval: a contribution to people customer Reval / Heinrich Laurenty, sexton at St. Olav; edited and edited by Georg Adelheim. Georg Adelheim (Ed.), Tallinn: F. Wassermann 1925, p. 158 ( digitized version) .
  3. ^ Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600-1657). Volume 1, Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005, p. 281.
  4. ↑ HR Paucker: Ehstland's clergy in orderly time = and order. Reval: Lindfors' Erben 1840, p. 288.
  5. ^ Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600-1657). Volume 1, Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005, p. 715.
  6. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, pp. 116–117.
  7. ^ Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600-1657). Volume 1, Tübingen: Niemeyer 2005, p. 294.
personal data
SURNAME Polus, Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic poetics professor and occasional poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Lauchstädt
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1642
Place of death Tallinn