Tobias Huebner

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Tobias Hübner (born April 5, 1578 in Halle (Saale) ; † May 5, 1636 in Dessau ) was a German baroque poet and literary theorist.

Hübner's choice of high materials , the use of highly baroque stylistic devices and the avoidance of foreign words were important for the development of German baroque literature .

Life

Hübner is the son of the Anhalt councilor Tobias Hübner and his wife Benigna Schultz. After visiting the school illustrious in Zerbst to Hübner enrolled for the summer semester 1587 at the University of Leipzig for the subject Jura . In October 1596 he moved to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) and on August 7, 1600 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg , also here at the law faculty.

In mid-1601, Hübner went to France for almost two years. During this study visit he made friends with Burgrave Christoph von Dohna . In 1603 he is back and enrolled at the University of Jena . After completing his studies, Hübner was appointed court master on Dohna's recommendation and accompanied Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt-Dessau to the University of Ghent from 1608 to 1610 .

Further stays were Saumur and Paris. Together with his pupil, Huebner Prince Christian I followed from Anhalt-Bernburg to Jülich and later to Amberg , where Christian resided as governor of the Upper Palatinate . In 1612 both traveled on to Ansbach and stayed there until 1613 at the court of Margrave Joachim Ernst von Brandenburg-Ansbach . The tournament cartels, Hübner's earliest publications, date from this time. In June 1613 he took part in the guided tour of the "Winter Queen" Elisabeth Stuart to Heidelberg and published the splendid illustrated book Description of the Reiss about this historical event. Here he first used the Alexandrinervers , which he had got to know in France.

From September 1613 onwards, we found Hübner again in Dessau. About 6 months later he was promoted to the Privy Council and was appointed educator of Princes Johann Kasimir von Anhalt-Dessau and Georg Aribert von Anhalt-Dessau . One year later, on June 4, 1614, Hübner was elevated to imperial nobility by means of an imperial noble privilege and married Margaretha von Lattorf in the same year.

From 1618 he acts as a chamber and judicial advisor to Prince Johann Kasimir. As such, he was accepted into the Fruitful Society by Prince Ludwig I. von Anhalt-Köthen . As a company name it is given the useful and as a motto in diversity . The emblem intended for him shows a beet seed stalk with ripe fruit ( Brassica rapa ssp. Oleifera DC.). Hübner's entry can be found in the Koethener society book under number 25. There is also the rhyme law, which Hübner wrote as thanks for his inclusion:


Help lord, that my voice , only your praise is ringing, That my thumb, my voice here collerir, and sing
Only your wonderful, and then ia nothing more, Never
my mouth, otherwise I should open,
That my tongue never speaks of others things,
all of you, Most High God, And yours honored. :

Hübner translated La septmaine ou creation du monde by Guillaume du Bartas . Here, Hübner is still completely at odds with Martin Opitz . Only in his later work did he adopt the now generally accepted rules. It is noteworthy that with this translation or re-poetry, the Fruitful Society appeared literarily for the first time.

Works (selection)

  • Description of the Reiss ... as well as held jousting and joy festivals. Heidelberg 1613.
  • Wilhelms v. Saluste Herr Von Barta's rhyming poems called The Old Fathers. Cöthen: Prince. Print shop 1619.
  • The other week of Wilhelm von Saluste. Cöthen: Prince. Print shop 1622
  • The first and other weeks of Wilhelm von Saluste. (Complete edition of the Du Bartas translation), posthumously ed. v. Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen a. Diederich from Werder . Cöthen: Prince. Print shop 1640.

List of works and references

Literature (selection)

  • Ferdinand Siebigk :  Hübner, Tobias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 272 ​​f.
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : "Mercury at the crossroads. An unknown sister academy of the Fruitful Society", in: Joseph P. Strelka u. Jörg Jungmayr (ed.): Virtus et fortuna. Festschrift for Hans-Gert Roloff . Bern: Peter Lang 1982, pp. 384–392
  • Jörg Ulrich Fechner: "Tobias Huebner's Renaissance verse", in: Jb. Int. Germ. , Row A, Vol. 2,3, Bern / Ffm. 1976, pp. 110-118.
  • Jörg Ulrich Fechner: "Hübner, Tobias" in: Walther Killy: Literature Lexicon : Authors and Works in the German Language , Vol. 5. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1990, p. 498f. ISBN 3-570-03705-3
  • James MacLellan Hawkes: Tobias Hübner: A Study in the Beginning Modern German Poetic Style . Diss. Harvard 1943
  • William Jervis Jones (ed.): Sprachhelden und Sprachverderber: Documents for the research of foreign word purism in German (1478-1750). Berlin: de Gruyter 1995 ISBN 3-11-014480-8 , pp. 60f .; 84f .; 455 Google Booksearch

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personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES the useful one
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chamber and Justice Council of Prince Johann Kasimir (Anhalt-Dessau)
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1636
Place of death Dessau