Ahasverus Fritsch

Ahasuerus Fritsch ( born December 16, 1629 in Mücheln; † August 24, 1701 in Rudolstadt ) was a German lawyer and hymn writer of the Baroque period.

Life

Fritsch was a son of Müchelner mayor. 1631 was forced to flee the family when the town was burned down. Later he attended the Gymnasium in Halle ( Saale), and 1650 he enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Jena. 1657 he was appointed by Count Albert Anton of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt to Hofmeister. Among the children entrusted his education there was also the later hymns poet Aemilie Juliane of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt, whose poetic evolution he influenced by its own model.

In his legal career, he brought it to the office director in 1665 and 1687 as Chancellor of the small country of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt. As the first German legal scholar, he dealt with the danger of influencing the people through the press. Besides a large number of legal publications, he wrote religious devotional texts and hymns. His verse " How beautiful is the new world " was set to music in the oratorio The Death of Jesus by Carl Heinrich Graun.

Works (selection)

  • De mendicantibus Validis. Jena 1659
  • 121 new sky sweet Jesus songs. 1668
  • Tractatus Nomico - Politicus [ ... ] From Guild and Jnnungs law. Müller, Freyschmidt, Naumburg and Rudolstadt 1669th digitized and full text in German Text Archive
  • Beautiful sky songs. 1670
  • Tractatus De Typographis, Bibliopolis, Charter Riis, Et Bibliopegis. Hamburgi. 1675, online edition of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden.
  • Discursus de novellarum ... usu et abusu. 1676; German u.d.T. " Use and Abuse of the newspapers ", in: The oldest writings for and against the newspapers, ed. K. Kurth. 1944
  • Liebster Immanuel, Herzog of the pious. 1679 sechsstrophiges hymn by Johann Sebastian Bach in one of his chorale cantata BWV 123 set to music for Epiphany
  • What is that to thee? Emmrich, Regensburg 1686th digitized
  • Opuscula juris publici & privatized. Nuremberg 1690
  • Tabulae pacis inter imperatorum Romanum, Leopoldum Magnum, et imperii germanici status, from una, et Ludovicum XIV, Galliarum regno, from altera parte [ ... ]. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Gottfried Liebezeit, 1699
  • Collected Works, ed. M. H. Griebner, 2 vols 1731-32
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