Urban storm

Urban Sturm (also: Stürmer, Stormer, Sturmius ; * around 1523 in Marienburg ; † late summer 1565 in Königsberg in Prussia) was a German poet, rhetorician and musician.

Life

He was probably a son of the Marienburg mayor Urban Stürmer (1522–1542). Sturm had studied at the University of Strasbourg and continued his studies in October 1542 at the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he had acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences on September 1, 1545. In 1550 he was director of the St. John's School in Thorn , where he confessed his evangelical faith to Bishop Stanislaus Hosius and was therefore expelled in 1552.

He went to Königsberg, where he worked as head of the local education department until 1555. In 1555 he was appointed professor of rhetoric at the University of Königsberg . In 1557 he switched to the professorship of poetry and was rector of the alma mater in that year . In 1559 he resigned from his university teaching position. He became court conductor and cantor of the chapel of Duke Albrecht of Prussia . The songs “ I lead my time in hard lament ” and “ It sad, what should sad ” come from Sturm .

literature

• Gottfried Döring: Choralkunde: in three books. P. 237 ( online )
• Bruno Jahn: German biographical encyclopedia of music. De Gruyter Saur, 2003, ISBN 3-598-11586-5 , Vol. 2, p. 836
• Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot Publishing House, Leipzig, 1903, p. 41
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt: Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 406