Justus Georg Schottel
Justus Georg Schottelius ( Latinized from Schottel; * June 23, 1612 in Einbeck, † October 25, 1676 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German poet and linguist of the Baroque period.
Life
Justus George was the son of Lutheran pastor John Schottelius in Einbeck and his wife Margaret, a daughter of the businessman Hans Ilse. Since 1618, he attended the School Council to Einbeck. After the death of his father in 1626, he began a craftsman or shopkeeper doctrine he broke off after a short time.
At age 17, he already earned his own living by tutoring and typing in order to visit the school Andreanum in Hildesheim can. In 1628 he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt. In the years from 1631 to 1633 studied at the Schottelius led by Joachim Jungius Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg.
Then moved Schottelius 1633 for two years at the University of Groningen. On May 11, 1635, he enrolled at the University of Leiden where he studied with Professors Daniel Heinsius and Peter Cunaeus. The following year, Schottelius returned to Einbeck and enrolled on October 11, 1636 at the University of Wittenberg. From there he fled in 1638 before the Swedish troops.
In Brunswick, he hired himself in 1638 as a private tutor in the family of Hahn. At Easter 1638 Schottelius was appointed preceptor of Prince Anton Ulrich of Brunswick- Lüneburg. Another student was Ferdinand Albrecht of Brunswick- Lüneburg. In the years 1645-1646 the famous poet Sigmund von Birken Schottelius in the education of young princes supported.
Schottelius wrote at least six plays for his students, which have been performed by this also. Mostly composed Duchess Sophie Elisabeth, the wife of Duke August the Younger, the accompanying music. To a piece comes the music of Heinrich Schütz.
While working as a preceptor and tutor Schottelius his doctorate at the University of Helmstedt for Doctor of Laws. As such, he was appointed Assessor in the High Court 1642.
During these years, Schottelius always put the emphasis on German language and grabbed engaged in the language debate of his time, although he was in constant competition with Christian Gueintz and Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt- Köthen. Undoubtedly, the prince took him just because on September 25, 1642, the Fruitful society. Simultaneously with Schottelius Franz Julius was received by the Knesebeckstraße.
Schottelius was given to the company name, the seeker and the motto pure vapors. As an emblem of his Gemsenwurtzel or dizziness herb was (probably the Crawling Gämswurz - doronicum pardalianches L.) intended for. Schottelius ' entry is found in the book Köthener company under the number 397, where also the rhyme Act is recorded, with whom he thanked for recording:
The Gemsenwurtzel is also genant dizziness herb From hunters to the thier ' in bergen high nachsteigen: The pure dünst ' I search ' and make them bekant, The our German language in their art seind own, Right at the bottom go ', and there remains ' non- wand: Heis Seeking to continue wil also what they think with finded Show To bring the fruit wol uses the fatherland, And sulky with Deutsche Zung 'all' other frembde.
On September 8, 1646 he married Margaret Cleveland, but already on September 6, 1647 - probably in childbirth - died.
Until 1646 Schottelius had held the office of Prince educator at the Wolfenbüttel court. He was then appointed as the Court and Kammerrat with administrative tasks. The Pegnesische flower north of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer had taken him already in 1645 as its tenth member; he became a member under the name Fortano. The second Order of the President birch whom he had a long-standing, occupied by the correspondence preserved scholarly friendship. Probably Schottelius was also since 1644 been a member of the Unio Christiana Johann Valentin Andreae of.
On June 12, 1649 married Anna Maria Schottelius Sobbe.
Work
1663 appeared Schottelius ' most important and most extensive work detailed work by the Germans HaubtSprache, a kind of summa of contemporary knowledge in the field of linguistics and linguistics. Because of its grammatical statements especially in the area of word formation ( through composition and on the basis of common words ), as it was also because of its cultural and educational impact in terms of appreciation of the Germans over other languages is of great importance and has all other efforts to grammatical description of the German fundamentally influenced. German words for linguistic and grammatical terms ( " singular ", " most ", " root form ", etc.) go back to Schottelius.
Works (selection)
- Lamentatio Germaniæ Exspirantis / The now hinsterbenden nymphs Germaniæ miserable death lawsuit, Braunschweig 1640 ( digitized )
- Teutsche language arts, Braunschweig 1641 (reprint: Hildesheim 1976)
- New invented joys game genandt peace victory, Wolfenbüttel 1648 ( digitized )
- Fruitive desire Garte: full clergy and Secular New inventions, Wolfenbüttel 1647 (reprint: Munich 1967)
- Teutsche verse and rhyme, Lüneburg 1656 (reprint: Hildesheim 1976)
- Detailed work by the Teutonic Haubtsprache, Braunschweig 1663 ( digitized; Reprints: Tübingen 1967)
- Jesus Christ Nahmens honor, Wolfenbüttel 1666
- Ethica: the moral art or Wolleben art, Wolfenbüttel 1669 (reprint: Bern 1980)
- De singularibus quibusdam et antiquis In Germania Juribus et Observatis. , Ffm and Lpz. 1671
- Weird idea of eternal bliss. Braunschweig 1673
- Horrendum Bellum grammaticale Teutonum antiquissimorum, Braunschweig 1673 ( digitized; edition as The terrible war speech: Reclam, Leipzig, 1991, ISBN 3-379-00721-8 )