Johann Freinsheim

John Freinsheim (* November 16, 1608 in Ulm, † August 31 1660 in Heidelberg) was a historian and philologist of the Baroque period.

Life

Freinsheim was a gifted son of wealthy parents, attended the Gymnasium in Worms, matriculated at the age of 15 years in Marburg, later in Giessen, where he studied law and politics. It was not until his move to Strasbourg he began to counsel Matthias Bern Eggers to visit humanistic and historical lectures. Along with Johann Michael Moscherosch, Isaiah ROMpler and Johann Matthias Schneuber he founded here in 1633 Sincere fir society to maintain the purity of the German language.

In 1634 he went as episcopal archivist to Metz. In 1637 he went as a private scholar back to Strasbourg to marry Bern Eggers daughter. In 1642 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Politics and Skytteanischer Rhetorikan the University of Uppsala. From 1647 he was court librarian of the learned Swedish Queen Christina. 1650 he returned as a private scholar to Worms. With the reopening of the University of Heidelberg in 1656, he was appointed to the Electoral Council and Honorary Professor.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.) Publius Annius Florus: Rerum Romanarum. Strasbourg 1632
  • Commentarii in libros superstites Q. Cvrtii Rvfi. Strasbourg 1639 (German Übs udT From the life of Alexander the Great, Vienna 1799 passim )
  • Teutscher Tugentspiegel or singing of the tribes and deeds concerning the Old and Newen Germans Hercules. Strasbourg 1639
  • Orationes. Strasbourg 1662

Literature (selection )

  • Nils Runeby: Monarchia mixta. Stockholm 1962
  • Wilhelm Kuhlmann: Republic of Letters and princely state. Tübingen 1982

Work and bibliography

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: "John Freinsheim (1608-1660) ", in: personal bibliographies to the printing of the Baroque, Vol 3, Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 1578-88. ISBN 3-7772-9105-6
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