Melchior Acontius
Melchior Acontius (other names forms Melchior Volz, Melchior Foltze, Melchior Foltz; * 1515 in Oberursel, † June 22, 1569 in Altstedt ) was a German humanist and poet.
Life and work
Acontius enrolled on 4 June 1533 at the University of Heidelberg, in 1534, he moved to the University of Wittenberg. In Wittenberg he belonged to the poet circle and among his friends George Aemilius, Georg Sabinus, John Stigel and John Gigas. He first came out in 1536 with a poem on the death of Erasmus of Rotterdam, which he obviously adored very much. Philipp Melanchthon - so it seems - gave it its name humanists Acontius which = the translation to Volz Bolz, javelin or bolts to say.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Acontius to the wedding of his friend Sabinus with the daughter of Melanchthon devoted his Epithalmen. This consecration history has recorded under his own poems Sabinus.
1540 Acontius went to Königstein where he entered the service of Count Ludwig von Stolberg. Appointed to the Council of the count, he took part in the negotiations in 1549 in Speyer in part on an innovation in coinage. Also at the imperial court, he is said to have represented the count.
His works are mostly of the Wittenberg time.
Works
- Epicedion and Apotheosis in honor of Erasmus of Rotterdam, appeared in Liber Selectarum declamationum of Philipp Melanchthon in Strasbourg in 1541,
- Poems on d wedding of Georg Sabinus, in: Liber carminum adoptivus, accompanied by the expenditure of Poenata Georgii Sabini and the Deliciae poetarum Germanorum huius superiorisque aevi Illustrium Frankfurt 1612
- Allegorical interpretation of the Christopher legend on a design by Melanchthon, Wittenberg 1536
- Ad Lectorem in Georg Joachim 's Tabulae astronomicae in Gratiam studiosae iuventutis seorsim editae Wittenberg without year
- Quinque ad Typographum in Jacob Micyllus'es Slvarum libri, without locality 1564 ( TitelbL )
- Ex Epithalamio in nuptias Georgii Sabini of Aegidius Periander in Germania Aegidii Periandri Frankfurt 1567