Zacharias Lund

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Zacharias Lund (born April 5, 1608 in Nybøl on the Sundewitt peninsula , † July 8, 1667 in Copenhagen ) was a German-speaking poet and classical philologist of the Baroque period in Denmark .

Life

Coming from a German Protestant pastor family, Lund first attended schools in Sønderborg and Flensburg , and from 1625 the Johanneum in Hamburg . In 1630 he enrolled as "Holsatius" at the University of Wittenberg to study philology with August Buchner . Through Buchner's mediation, he got to know Martin Opitz's writings for the first time . Before the invasion of the Swedish troops, he fled the following year, first to Leipzig , but then back to the Danish Holstein , where he had to earn his living as a tutor and court master for many years until 1645 . However, the activity of the court master enabled him to make several educational trips to Sweden , the Netherlands , England , France and Italy . In Rome he met the influential Jesuit philologist Caspar Schoppe , who gave him access to the Vatican collections .

Back on Danish soil, in 1646 he was appointed principal of the Herlufsholm school . The administrative side of his academic position, however, appealed to him less as it interfered with his studies. That is why he took it up immediately when he was offered the position of librarian in Ringsted in 1654 . Here he spent three happy years studying philology until his library was destroyed in the Swedish War in 1657 . In the same year he became secretary of the Danish chancellery in Copenhagen, an office which he held until his death.

Lund's unprinted estate by far exceeds the scope of his actual publications and includes, among other things, Latin poems, German stage works and commentaries on classics. Literary critics have recognized for years that Lund's German-language poems are more indebted to the Saxon group of poets of his former Wittenberg fellow students such as Christian Brehme and Paul Fleming than to his Holstein homeland.

Works (selection)

  • Poematum Juvenilium Libri IV. Hamburg 1634
  • All kinds of good German poems. Leipzig 1636

Literature (selection)

List of works and references

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personal data
SURNAME Lund, Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1608
PLACE OF BIRTH Nybøl
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1667
Place of death Copenhagen