Georg Philipp Harsdorffer
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer ( correct: Harsdorf ) ( born November 1, 1607 Fischbach, today at Nuremberg; † September 17, 1658 in Nuremberg ) was a German poet of the Baroque and founder of Pegnesischen flower north. His literature, he wrote in the Upper German writing language. He was also a hobby heraldist.
Life
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer was a member of the Nuremberg patrician family Harsdorf and was the son of Philip and his wife Lucretia Harsdörffer Scheurl. As of March 20, 1623 Harsdörffer was enrolled at the University of Altdorf. Three years later he moved to the Faculty of Law to Strasbourg, where he registered on 10 July 1626.
1627, a year later he began his five-year ultimately Cavalierstour (also called grand tour ), which took him through France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. He spent 1630 semester at the University of Siena.
After his return in 1633 to Harsdörffer ranked in the wake of the Nuremberg Messenger Johann Jakob Tetzel. On June 9, 1634 he married Susanna Furer of Haimendorf. This year became Harsdörffer assessor at the lower court; three years later he was transferred to the City Court. From 1655 he was seen as a member of the Inner Council. In addition to these diverse tasks found Harsdörffer but still enough time to create as a writer, translator and scientists a great work.
In November 1641 Harsdörffer of Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt- Köthen was inducted into the Fruitbearing society. He gave him the name of the company end of the game and showed him the motto of some kind to. As an emblem Harsdöffer wore the colorful little English or French speaking Böhnlein (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In Köthener society book, Harsdorffer entry found under No. 368, where also the rhyme Act is to be read, which he composed in gratitude for his recording:
Along with Johann Klaj founded in 1644 Harsdörffer the Pegnesischen flower north, but whose literary activities after a few years came to a halt. His successor as President of the Order was Sigmund von Birken in 1662. It was under him as the " Chief Shepherd " was the flower north to one of the great poets of clubs in the Baroque period.
Harsdörffer wrote the lyrics to the first received German-language opera, which was set to music by Sigmund Theophil Staden: The spiritual forest poem or pleasure game called Seelewig ( 1644). Although this seems to Pastorale strophic for an opera, it deserves mention as an interesting, interspersed with many late medieval reception of the elements Northern Italian operatic style full vanitas motifs.
At the age of 50 years Georg Philipp Harsdörffer died on September 17, 1658 in Nuremberg and was buried at the local St. John's Cemetery.
The German -minded cooperative knew Harsdörffer as a member, under the name of art Gambling. This association had set itself, inter alia, aim to preserve the German language and to avoid influence by foreign words. From Harsdörffer comes the famous evening hymn:
His language
A native of Nuremberg Protestant Harsdörffer was the circle of Martin Opitz, and the fruit -bearing Society close ideologically. In his list of 41 commendable authors of his time, place, significantly, not a single Catholic. Still, he could himself with the well-kept in Meissen and Silesia central German literary language not get used, and used for its German plants which otherwise derided as a Catholic Jesuit German Upper German writing language. In the preface to his most famous work, the poetic funnel. The Teutsche sealing and rhyme, he said in 1653 about this:
Successful Eindeutschungen
Harsdörffer invented for many foreign words Eindeutschungen of which have found a lot of input in the German language, such as elevator ( for the foreign word Akt), watch ( observe ), correspondence (correspondence ), prism binoculars (telescope) and duel ( duel ).
Works (selection)
- Poetic funnel. The Teutsche sealing and rhyme / without Behuf the Latin language / in Vl. Pour hours. Velvet an annex of the spelling / writing and divorce / or Distinction. By a member of the highly laudable Fruchtbringende society. Launched for the second time and multiply in many places. Nuremberg / Printed by Wolfgang Endter, Nuremberg 1648-1653 [Library of the Germanic National Museum, Signed 80 01 164 /1, 943 Coll N ] First Edition: 1647th
- Ars Apophthegmatica, 2 vols, ed. Georg Braungart. Frankfurt / Main 1990 ( Nuremberg Ndr d ed 1655-56 )
- Woman Room conversation games, 8 vols Tübingen: Niemeyer 1968-69 ( Ndr d ed Nuremberg 1644-57 )
- Icones mortis: representations of death, with verses of Harsdörffer and Johann Vogel, ed. Gerhard Dünnhaupt. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1998 ( Ndr d ed Nuremberg 1648)
- Pegnesisches Shepherd poem, ed. Klaus Garber. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1966 ( Ndr d ed Nuremberg 1644)
- Complete and increased again Trincir book. Nuremberg 1657, online edition of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
- The spiritual forest poem or pleasure game genant Seelewig. Music: Sigmund Theophil Staden. UA Nuremberg 1644
- Introduction to Siebmacher'schen armorial, published in 1655 by Prince Paul