Georg Thym

Georg Thym (* 1520 in Zwickau, † December 21, 1560 in Wittenberg), according to other sources from 1518 to 1561, was a German teacher, poet and author. He has several other forms of the name, including the thymus and Georg Georg Klee.

Life

Thym first attended the school of his native city and moved into 1540, the University of Wittenberg. Here he learned alongside Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, with whom he remained a lifelong. After he finished his undergraduate studies took place Thym 1544 as a teacher in Magdeburg, where he was among other things a colleague of Martin Agricola.

Soon after, he moved to the school in Zerbst and took after acquiring the academic degree of Magister in Wittenberg, 1548 for the position of rector of the school of his home town of Zwickau. There, however, he could not hold for long. Therefore, he followed in 1551 (alternatively 1549) a call to Goslar, took over in 1554 (or 1550) the office of a schoolmaster in Wernigerode and returned the following year returned to Wittenberg, where he was admitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of the Wittenberg Academy in October. According to another source he remained until 1558 in Wernigerode, before he became a professor at Wittenberg.

Here he gave private lectures, pursued his studies further and established a private school. Thym has distinguished himself primarily as a writer of textbooks, grammatical writings, as a writer of German and Latin poems. In addition to a hand book of Christian doctrine in verse his legendary cycle has emerged the lion in verse to Henry.

Works

• Zwölff Heuptartikel Bekendtnis of our Christian faith.
• Theo Wallmoden. Magdeburg in 1558, Strasbourg in 1559, Wolfenbüttel 1563rd
• Exempla syntaxeos.