Richard Braithwait

Richard Brathwaite (* 1588 in Burnishead in Kendal, † May 4, 1673 in Catterick / Richmond Shire, in the notation Brathwait, Braithwaite or Brathwayte ) was an English author of satirical and humorous sketches. It made ​​its appearance in his writings under the pseudonyms Corymbaeus, Parthenius Osiander, Musophilus, Dinonysius Baccho, Blasius Multibibus and Castalio Pomerano. It was during his lifetime by his humorous description of a pilgrim in England famous ( Barnaby's Four Journeys ). Today, especially his 1616 published in German translation Jus Potandi is known ( Zechrecht ).

Life

Brathwaite came from a respected family from Burneside in Kendal. He studied from 1604 at Oriel College, Oxford University and later in Cambridge Legal Studies and was then nominally working as a lawyer in London. When in 1610 his father died, he returned to Westmorland and under various pseudonyms, published his poems and satires. It is believed that he has participated on the side of the Royalists as a Captain Fußkompanie the English Civil War. He was Deputy Lieutenant of the county Westmoreland, landlords and justice of the peace in his home. He died in 1673 in the village of Appleton East in the community Cattrick. In the church of Catterick is the grave stone Brathwaites and his wife Mary died in 1681, who had married in 1617. The inscription reads:

Works

  • The Golden Fleece, 1611 (poetry )
  • The Poet's Willow, 1614
  • Disputatio inauguralis theoretico - practica jus potandi, cum omnibus solemnitatibus & controversiis occurentibus secundum jus civile discußis breviter adumbrans (...) Pres. Dionysio Baccho (...) publ. Blasius Multibibus, Oenozythopoli (London), 1616
  • Blasius Multibibus: Jus Potandi, or Zechrecht, Leipzig 1616 ( Translator unknown)
  • The English Gentleman, 1630
  • The English Gentlewoman, 1631
  • Corymbaeus: Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to Northern England, London 1636 ( Latin- makkaronische seal)
  • Corymbaeus: Barnabee 's Journal, 1638 (English translation of Barnaby's Four Journeys )
  • A Spiritual Spicery, 1638
  • A Strappado for the Devil ( satire)
  • Type Asleepe, Husband?
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