Georg Sabinus

Georg Sabinus, was Georg Schuler (* April 23, 1508 in Brandenburg an der Havel, † December 2, 1560 in Frankfurt ( Oder) ) was professor of poetry and eloquence, and Founding Director of the Albertina (University of Königsberg ) and a recognized poet and diplomat.

Life

Sabinus was the son of the mayor of the old city of Brandenburg Balthasar Schuler. After visiting the city school, he studied ancient literature and jurisprudence in Wittenberg from 1523/24 bis 1533. During this time he took his poet name Sabinus. Here he heard the lectures of Philipp Melanchthon, the friend and fellow of Martin Luther, and perverse in his house. In his study tour 1533/34 to Italy, he made ​​especially influential acquaintances, to whom he owed the title " Papal Count Palatine ". After his return he became engaged to Melanchthon's daughter Anna (1522-1547), whom he married in 1536. The marriage was not happy because of Sabinus high Fahrenheit and Anna's childhood of a spoiled daughter.

After a long stay at the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht of Brandenburg in 1538, he was professor of poetry and eloquence at the Viadrina in Frankfurt ( Oder). On August 17, 1544 Duke Albrecht could inaugurate I of Brandenburg -Ansbach his university in Königsberg and introduced as the first Rector Georg Sabinus in the auditorium.

The Albertina was from the beginning, under the principle of freedom. It became a refuge for oppressed in German and European countries believer. The first decades after the foundation ran stormy. It came to the Protestant dogmas dispute. The Duke continued the appointment of Andreas Osiander to a chair of theology - against the wishes of the faculty - by.

After falling out with the professors and the Herzog, Sabinus came back in 1555 to Frankfurt ( Oder) and was here Electoral Council and messenger. The Brandenburg Elector Joachim II sent him several times on diplomatic missions abroad. He put a diplomat in the Polish royal court the foundation for the enfeoffment of the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns with the Duchy of Prussia. In 1560 he fell ill on an undertaken on behalf of the elector trip to Italy, returned in the winter back to Frankfurt (Oder) and died shortly thereafter.

He was a well-known in his day and sought- author of tribute poems and teaching pieces; next to it he wrote interpretive and historical works. In the spirit of Ovid's elegies he wrote and chose its name after the Roman poet Sabinus.

Works

• Poemata. 1544 and 1558
• Sabini carmina. Leipzig 1563