Ambrosius Lobwasser

Ambrose Lobwasser ( born April 4, 1515 Snow Mountain, † November 27, 1585 in Königsberg ) was a German humanist writer and translator.

Life

Lobwasser studied law in Leipzig and became in 1535 a PhD to master. After that, he lived in France and Italy. Until 1550, he taught as a professor in Leipzig. From 1557 he lived as a princely Council and Chancellor in Meissen. From 1563 to 1585 he was professor of law in Königsberg.

Since 1565 he worked on his translation of the Psalms, which in 1573 appeared under the title The Psalter of the Royal Prophet David. It was not based on the original Hebrew and Martin Luther's translation, but the by Guillaume Franc, Loys Bourgeois and Maistre Pierre (Pierre Davantès ) set to music French Psautier de Genève ( Geneva Psalter ) by Clément Marot and Théodore de Beze. The plant had over 100 editions and was used in the German Reformed church until the 18th century. In Dresden it was included in the first Dresdner hymnal in 1589, but which has been seized under Christian I. death and replaced by a Lutheran hymnal. Some of his poems were included to the Protestant hymnal.

Family

His father Fabian Lobwasser ( ca.1480 -1545 ) was Schneeberger builder and mountain juror. His brother Paul Lobwasser (? -1566 ), Dr. jur, professor in Leipzig, 1533/34 President of the University, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1542, married in 1541 Anna Stromer ( 1522-1588 ), daughter of the physician Heinrich Stromer.

Works

• " Hymni Patrum ", translation, 1578
• " Tragödia of the beheading locust ", translation of the work of George Buchanan, 1583
• " German petite Epigrammata ", 1612