Michael Kongehl

Michael Kongehl ( born March 19, 1646 Cross Castle, East Prussia, † November 1, 1710 in Königsberg ) was a German lyric poet and dramatist of the Baroque period.

Life

Michael Kongehl learned his education in Königsberg ( Duchy of Prussia) and enrolled in 1661 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Königsberg. A three-year educational journey through the whole of Germany brought him into contact with the Nuremberg Pegnitz shepherds, who received him in September 1673 with the nickname " Prutenio " as a member. In the two following years Kongehl held again in Nuremberg, where he attended the Order of the President Sigmund von Birken several times.

Without a doubt the stay in Nuremberg was significant for Kongehls poetic development. Knowledge of Italian novella and the acquaintance with forms of mystical piety seemed largely due to his quite original text production. 1683 he returned to Königsberg and activates the refined Nuremberg poetics in the local regional political situation. He sat through the medium of text vehemently for the bourgeois position in the feudal and sectarian clashes in. He was alderman and eventually Mayor of Kneiphof / Königsberg. As a learned rhetorician in situationsspezfischen context, he was, however, rated from outside hardly or entirely inappropriate, even the first reconnaissance misjudged him and his work fundamentally Erdmann Neumeister called his work in 1695 as an example of a particularly unsuccessful kind of poetry. Overall Kongehl authored numerous argute Kasualia, eclogues, epigrams and four plays and a historical novel.

Works (selection)

• Surbosia that is history Moderate heroic poem. Nuremberg 1676
• Amusement at the pain. 2 vols Königsberg 1683-85 ( songs, poems, hymns )
• Jmmergrüner cypress Hayn. Gdansk 1694th ( mourning seals)
• The incomparably beautiful - Princessin Andromeda. Ann Arbor 1980 ( Ndr d ed ) Königsberg 1695