Jacob Bidermann

Jacob Bidermann S. J. (* 1578 in Ehingen (Donau); † August 20, 1639 in Rome) was a Jesuit poet and playwright of the Baroque.

Life

At the age of 8 years Bidermann was recorded in 1586 in Augsburg Jesuit High School, where Matthew Rader was one of his teachers. From 1594, he completed his novitiate in Landsberg and was recorded here in 1596 the Order. End of the nineties, he studied philosophy and theology in Ingolstadt while also heading the local school theater. Since 1600 he was again in Augsburg under the Rectorate Rader. In this particularly productive period of his work created some of his most important works. His Cenodoxus was premiered here in 1602. 1603 he returned to theological studies back to Ingolstadt.

1607 he worked as a professor of rhetoric and as a theater director in Munich. From 1606-1614 he was a teacher at the Jesuit College in Munich, where he was offered the opportunity to stage his own Latin dramas with great effort to stage technical innovations. From 1615 he was professor of theology and philosophy in Dillingen. In 1626 he was appointed as a religious theologian and Bücherzensor his Order to Rome, where he remained 13 years until his death. Bidermann is considered a major representative of the baroque Jesuit drama.

Background

As of Jacob Bidermann created 12 resulting 1602-1619 pieces, not all of which are still preserved apply. The Cenodoxux 1602 listed in Augsburg is considered the most well known. It represents a trend piece against the spirit of humanism and the emancipation of the individual (1635 German by Joachim Meichel ) dar. Bidermanns dramas consist inter alia of the rise and fall of a pagan mimes for Christian martyrs ( Philemon Martyr ) or over the life of good hermit ( Macarius Romanus ). His works always contain the same message, that is to find true salvation in turning to God the turning away from the world. Contemporaries referred Bidermann mostly as a neo-Latin poet of the lyric and epic and next spiritual poetry written Bidermann also epistles, novels and award seals. Before the dramas were written by him before a Herod epic heroes letters and satirical prose pieces entitled Utopia in pressure. It was not until 1666 appeared a collection of his pieces. Almost without exception, the works of Jacob Bidemann are written in Latin and as the German was later developed into a literary language enabled, blocking grade this a reception of the seals Biedermanns the way. Therefore, his most famous work, the Cenodoxus until today known in contemporary translation than in the original Latin.

Works (selection)

  • Cosmarchia or world domination, 1617
  • Epigrammatvm libri tres, Dillingen in 1620 ( digitized output of the Paris 1621)
  • Sky bell ( Editorship), Augsburg 1621
  • Herodiados libri tres, Dillingen in 1622 ( digitized )
  • Heroum Epistolae, Antwerp 1630 ( digitized output of the Munich 1634)
  • Heroidum Epistolae, Rome 1638 ( digitized output Dillingen 1642)
  • Utopia, Dillingen 1640
  • Silvulae hendecasyllaborum. Libri tres, Lucerne 1647 ( digitized )
  • Ludi theatrical sacri, Munich 1666, contains among others the first edition of Cenodoxus and Cosmarchia Immersive Mvndi Respvblica ( digitized )

Newer editions

  • Cenodoxus. German translation by Joachim Meichel ( 1635). Edited by Rolf Tarot. ( UB = 8958 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-15-008958-3
  • Cenodoxus Comico - Tragoedia. Translated from the Latin and annotated by Christian sense. Edition Isele, Constance among others 2004, ISBN 3-86142-305-7 ( Bibliotheca Suevica 10).
  • Christian cosmos. 100 epigrams. Latin - German. Selected and translated by Wilfried Schouwink. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2004, ISBN 3-86142-292-1 ( Bibliotheca Suevica 8).
  • Cosmarchia immersive mundi respublica. Desumpta ex Parabola Barlaami, quam dedit Josaphato in exemplum de bonis in caelum praemittendis. Translated from the Latin by Christian sense. Edition Isele, Constance others 2002, ISBN 3-86142-259- X ( Bibliotheca Suevica 1).
  • Himmelglöcklein. That is: catholische exquisite spiritual Gesäng auff any time of the year. Reprint of the 3rd edition of Dillingen, Sermodus, 1627th Edited by Wolfgang Schürle. Konrad, White Horn 2000, ISBN 3-87437-447-5 (Alb and Danube, art and culture 27).
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