David Schirmer (poet)

David Schirmer pseudonym: The determining, The Beshir Mende, DiSander; (* May 29, 1623 in Pappendorf; buried August 12, 1686 in Dresden ) was a poet of the Baroque period.

Life

The poet was a son of the Protestant pastor, who wrote also. First brought up by his father, he came in 1640 to Christian Gueintz to high school in Halle ( Saale). In 1641 he enrolled in Leipzig, and from 1645 he studied under August Buchner in Wittenberg. Philip of Zesen took him in 1647 to the German -minded cooperative. From 1649 he works as a court poet in Dresden. 1650 he presents his first collection of poems in print. 1655 he was appointed as successor to the Christian Brehmes court librarian. After almost thirty years of activity he goes into retirement for health reasons in 1683 and died in his adopted home of Dresdner three years later.

The 800 -page two-piece collection Poetic Rose Gepüsche (1657 ) shows him at the height of his poetic creation. Especially in the love poetry and song-writing proves to be high skill, although he was undoubtedly influenced by Martin Opitz and Paul Fleming. Another band, Poetic Argyle Gepüsche ( 1663 ), offers on 700 pages the occasional poems and courtly divertissements, which required his profession as poet laureate.

Literature (selection )

  • Anthony J. Harper: David Schirmer. Stuttgart 1977.
  • Reinhard Kade: David Schirmer. A Saxon poets 1623-1686 In: . Archive New to Saxon history. Vol 13, 1892, pp. 117-131.
  • Erwin Kunath: David Schirmer. Diss Leipzig 1922.
  • Edmund Emil Sattler: David Schirmer. Diss Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1972.
  • Werner Sonnenberg: Studies on Poetry David Schirmer. Diss Göttingen 1932.
  • Walther Killy: Literary Encyclopedia. German language authors and works ( 15 volumes ). Bertelsmann Lexikon -Verl. Gütersloh, Munich from 1988 to 1991. (CD -ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
  • Max von forest mountain: Schirmer, David. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1890, pp. 311 f
  • Jörg -Ulrich Fechner: Schirmer, David. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3, pp. 7 f ( digitized ).

Work and bibliography

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: David Schirmer ( 1623-1686 ). In: Personal bibliographies on the printing of the Baroque. Vol 5 Hiersemann Stuttgart 1991, pp. 3608-3638. ISBN 3-7772-9133-1
  • Werner Sonnenberg: Studies on Poetry David Schirmer, 1932 Göttingen dissertation
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