Jacob Micyllus

Jacob Micyllus (actually Moltzer; * April 6, 1503 in Strasbourg, † January 28, 1558 in Heidelberg ) was a German humanist, poet and educator. He led the town's Latin school in Frankfurt am Main and was a professor in Heidelberg.

Curriculum vitae

Micyllus studied from 1518 to 1522 in Erfurt, among others, Helius Eobanus Hessus. The end of 1522 he went to Wittenberg to Philipp Melanchthon. 1524, with only 21 years, he took up his position as rector of the Latin school founded a few years earlier in Frankfurt. The Alderman and patrician Hamman von Holzhausen, whose son Justinian also studied in Wittenberg, had appointed Micyllus on the recommendation of Melanchthon.

The first years of his rectorate were very successful. From 1526 a radical current that has stoked called by the two -Reformation preachers Dionysius Melander and Johann Bernhard Algesheimer developed in the Frankfurt citizenship. They turned not only against the clergy of the city, which was represented by the imperial monastery of St. Bartholomew, but also increasingly against the dominated by a few patrician families advice.

Micyllus felt uncomfortable in this atmosphere. It is not clear whether he was a Lutheran, and therefore stood in contrast to the more confessional Zwinglian preachers oriented, or whether he was not interested as a humanist theological disputes. Anyway, he turned to the beginning of 1532 in a poem against the recently deceased Ulrich Zwingli. In response, the influence of Melander and Algesheimer public opinion turned against him the city. The Council, in which his patron Holzhausen had an influential position, let him at least enough time to look for a new job. On January 18, 1533 Micyllus was appointed to a professorship in Heidelberg.

In Frankfurt, however, soon changed the situation again. 1533, the Council suspended the Catholic church and thus came against the will of the people. At the same time, he managed to isolate the radical preacher and recall. In the Council, and in the population, the moderate forces gained the upper hand, and 1536, the city joined the schmalkaldischen covenant and thus the Augsburg Confession to.

Shortly thereafter Micyllus was again called as rector of the Latin school in Frankfurt. His salary was increased from 60 to 150 florins florins a year. During his second rector, the Frankfurt School Latin definitively established. It was in 1542 housed in the former Franciscan mendicant.

1547 left Micyllus but again, Frankfurt, following a second call to Heidelberg as professor of Greek language and literature. He died highly regarded on 28 January 1558th His son Dr.jur. Julius Micyllus ( ca.1530 to 1600 ) published 1564 " Argentoratensis Sylvarum ... " the Latin poems of his father. Julius Micyllus was from 1582-84 Chancellor Electoral Palatinate Zweibrücken in 1586 then Council and Chancellor Hohenlohe- Weikersheim.

Selections

  • Jacobi Micylli hodoeporicon: Epicedion Mosellani. Epicedion Neseni. Et alia pleraque dignissima. Klug, Wittembergae 1527 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • Varia Epigrammata graco & latina & carmina graca alia, Basel 1538
  • Sylva variorum carminum
  • Commentataria in Homerum, Basel 1541
  • Annotationes genealogiam in John Bocatii Deorum, Basel 1532
  • Scholta ad Marialis obscuriores aliquot locos
  • Ratio examinandorum versuum
  • Calendarium
  • Carmen de elegiacum ruina arcis heidelbergensis, quae facta est 1537
  • Annotationes in Ovidium, & in Lucanum
  • Arithmetica Logistica
  • Euripidis vita, Basel 1558
  • De Tragaedia & ejus portibus
  • Traductio aliquoe operum Luciani cum scholiis
  • Annotationes in Euripidem, Basel 1562
  • Urbis Francofurdi gratulatio ad Caronum, Leipzig 1530
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