Leunclavius

John Löwenklau, also: Johann Lewenklaw, Leunclavius ​​, Amelsburnus (* presumably in July 1541 in Coesfeld, † June 1594 in Vienna ) was a German legal scholar, Hellenist and historians.

Life

Löwenklau studied from 1555 at the University of Wittenberg in Philipp Melanchthon, in 1562, he moved to the University of Heidelberg, where from 1563 he pursued a degree in law and this went to the University of Basel in winter semester 1566. They had already chosen him to succeed in the Chair of the Hellenist Wilhelm Xylander in Heidelberg. Since he was himself as Kryptocalvinist, but he came after the death of Frederick III. of the Palatinate, by the change in church policy, no longer in the office.

Since 1565 was the dependent of patrons scholars therefore traveled extensively, which led him to the Orient and on which he earned the reputation of an expert in Turkish history acquired by his contemporaries. It was 1584/85 to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople Opel. Previously, he spent two years at the court of Turin, was from 1580-81 at the Este court in Ferrera, also traveled extensively through Germany and most recently worked in Moravia. Also, have become known that he wrote Distichenform of him Latin and Greek Dedication and occasional poems. He also has worked as a translator of the works of the Church Fathers Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus, and the historian Dio Cassius, and other Byzantine historians.

Selections

  • Ξενοφώντος ἅπαντα τα σωζόμενα βιβλία / Xenophontis et imperatoris & philosophical clarissimi omnia, quae extant, opera, Basel: Thomas Guarin 1569
  • Annales Svltanorvm Othmanidarvm, A Tvrcis Sva Lingva Scripti ..., Frankfurt / M. 1588 1596
  • Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, De Monumentis Ipsorum Exscriptae, Libri XVIII, Frankfurt / M. New 1591 under the German title Hansen lions Klaus Chronicles Turkish nation Frankfurt in 1590, 1595
  • Xenophon, Basel 1594 posthumous translation
  • Plutarch, Basel 1565 translation
  • Apologia, 1576, Frankfurt / M 1588
  • Ecologa immersive Synopsis Basilicorum, Basel 1575
  • Paratitela, Frankfurt / M 1593
  • Iuris Canonici Greco - Romani tam quam civlis tomi duo, Frankfurt / M 1596 posthumous edition of M. Freher.
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