Wilhelm Alard

Wilhelm Alard (1617)

Wilhelm Alard, also Guilielmus Alardus (born November 22, 1572 in Wilster , † May 8, 1645 in Krempe (Steinburg) ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor who was also known as a poet .

Life

Alardus came from a family of scholars. His father was Franz Alard . After attending grammar school in Itzehoe from 1582, he moved to grammar school in Lüneburg in 1593 . In 1593 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg and studied there until 1595. He then became vice rector in 1596, then parish clerk and finally in 1608 pastor in Krempe, which he remained until his death.

Above all, he emerged as a Latin poet and was crowned poeta laureatus in 1617 . Ideas of the great poet Friedrich Taubmann flowed into his poetry, written in anacreontic style . He mixed his Christian parodies with anacreontic puns, different sound variants, diminutive and syntactic parallelisms, which underlined the religious content and the edification. In doing so, he resorted to the traditions of the church fathers and early Christian hymns.

In his collections of sermons that have been reprinted several times, he sometimes used Low German. He also wrote penitential sermons in which texts from the Old Testament were primarily interpreted. In addition to his theological and literary work, there are weather sermons, catechism explanations, song sermons on the Christian art of dying, homiletic meditation cycles and prayer collections. In sermons of thanks he deals with the peace treaty between Denmark and the emperor during the Thirty Years War. His sacred songs were included in the church hymn books.

Wilhelm Alard was married twice. Lambert (I) Alardus is one of his sons from his first marriage . His successor as pastor in Krempe was his son-in-law Johann Hudemann , the brother of the poet Heinrich Hudemann .

Fonts (selection)

• Excubiarum piarum Centuria Una-Tertia. Beside, Frankfurt / Main 1607 ( digitized version ); Leipzig 1630.
• Panacea Sacra, that is holy [...] soul artney, against the pestilentz. Hamburg 1604.
• Turmae sacrae, seu Anacreon Latinus, idemque Christianus. Hamburg 1613, Leipzig 1624.
• Söss Christlike sermons. Hamburg 1604.
• Gold ABC of the most important [...] names of Christ Jesus. Leipzig 1619, 1623.
• The crucified Christian. Leipzig 1634.
• Eucharisticarum Trias ... That is: ... three thanksgiving sermons: apart from different texts / the holy divine word. Grosse, Leipzig 1630 ( digitized version ); 1649.
• Weather sermons: di four ... sermons of terrible thunder and lightning ... Grosse, Leipzig 1636 ( digitized version ); Frankfurt am Main 1675.
• Concionum poenitentialium quarternio or Four Christian Sermons of Penance. Hamburg 1639 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Johann Moller: Cimbria Litterata. Volume 1, Copenhagen 1744, pp. 4-7.
• Adolf Brecher, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Merzdorf:  Alard, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 171-173. - (Side entry in the father's article)
• Nicolin Still: Schleswig-Holstein. Biographical Lexicon. Volume 2, Neumünster 1971, pp. 26-28.
• Wilhelm Kühlmann : "Amor liberalis". Aesthetic life plan and Christianization of neo-Latin anacreontics. In: August Buck , Tibor Klaniczay (ed.): The end of the Renaissance. European culture around 1600. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02687-1 , pp. 165-186.
• Wilhelm Kühlmann: Alardus, Guilielmus, aka Wilhelm Alard. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Vol. 1, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1988, ISBN 3-570-04671-0 , pp. 84 f.
• John Flood: Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, pp. 40–43. ISBN 9-783-11091274-6.

Web links

• Publications by and about Wilhelm Alard in VD 17 .
• Works by and about Wilhelm Alard  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the standard sequence in A. Leese Berg: The Alardus de Cantier , in: The German Herold 16 (1885), pp 90 -92