Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm ( born August 7, 1598 Vika, Dalarna, Sweden, † April 22, 1672 in Stockholm) was a Swedish poet, lawyer, linguist and mathematician.
Life
Stiernhielm came from a mining family and was born with Göran Olofsson, later he also called himself Lilia. He studied in Uppsala on Rudbeckius quorum and in Germany, including at the University of Greifswald.
Coming from a humble background, he made a career in the administration of the Swedish government and was among other judges in Dorpat in Livonia and chief of the Swedish National Archives. He also worked as a linguist and mathematician. In 1631 he was knighted, and took the name George Stiernhielm.
Importance
Bull helmet is called " the father of Swedish poetry ". He tried to establish a Swedish poetry, by transferring the ancient versification into Swedish. In place of the sequence of long and short syllables in the ancient languages he set the sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables. In addition, he was anxious to establish the most pure, freed of foreign influence, Swedish.
Stiernhielms important work is Hercules, the story of Hercules at the crossroads who must choose between the pleasure and virtue. Stiernhielms Hercules is a hexameter epic on the ancient model. Stiernhielm proved that the classical hexameter can be applied well in Swedish:
Hercules is an ornately durchgearbeites work full of baroque splendor images and powerful rhetoric.
In addition Stiernhielm wrote various other sealing works, especially " ballets ", that rhymed explanations and synopses of ballets that have been performed in the royal court.
Under Stiernhielms name and the hexameter poem Bröllops is handed beswäres Ihugkommelse, but in view of the atypical for Stiernhielm burlesque realism attribution questionable.
Stiernhielm began the tradition of the Swedish hexameter poetry, in which about Esaias Tegnér, Runeberg and August Strindberg created their own works. The latter in his famous poem Trefaldighetsnatten ( The Trinity Eight, second version 1905):