Paul Grebner
Paul Grebner (
Life
Grebner was born at Schneeberg, Saxony, probably between 1530 and 1550. In 1573, he was teaching at the Michaelisschule in Lüneburg;[3] and on 23 June, by his own account, the political future of Europe was revealed to him in a vision.[4]
From then on, Grebner concentrated on prophecy and took up residence in Magdeburg. He intended the first copy of his work for Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. On the way to see Augustus, Elector of Saxony, he was not far from Dresden when it came to him that he ought to write about the new star SN 1572 (Tycho's Supernova).[4]
In 1582, Grebner was in England and presented
Works
- Canticum canticorum Solomon, et Threni Hieremiae Prophetae elegiaco carmine Redditi. Accessit Oda de coniunctione fidelium cum Jesus Christ, Antwerp 1563.[6] Its author is given as "Paul Grebnerus Junior Mysnensis Niuimontanus", who dedicated the work to Augustus, Elector of Saxony.[4]
- Sericum Mundi filum,[4] expanded version of a work offered to the Duke of Brunswick in 1574.[7]
Influence
The writings of Grebner were a major source for the "leonine prophecies", involving an anti-papal "Lion of the North". They were applied to
In Germany
Grebner's prophecy was not generally known to German speakers until 1619, with the printing of his Conjecturen, predicting the
In England
Much notice was taken of "Grebner's prophecy" in English publications of the middle decades of the 17th century. Joseph Mede was able to consult the manuscript in Cambridge.[2] In 1649, George Wither wrote about it, using the pseudonym "Palaemon", in Vaticinium Votivum, with royalist elegies.[14]
In the
Lilly's 1651 Monarchy or No Monarchy was mainly designed to undermine the royalist interpretation.
James Howell cites Grebner in the Introduction to his Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660).[22] The 1680 work of Israel Tonge, The Northern Star the British Monarchy, drew on Grebner among other sources.[23]
Notes
- ISBN 978-90-04-09114-6.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-486-16913-2.
- ISBN 978-3-631-52851-8.
- ^ a b c d e f de:s:ADB:Grebner, Paul
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6499. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Paul Grebner (1563). Canticum Canticorum Salemonis, et Threni Hieremiae Proph. elegiaco carmine redditi.
- ISBN 978-90-04-11030-4.
- ISBN 978-90-04-11030-4.
- ISBN 978-0140600155.
- ISBN 978-0-7546-0340-5.
- ISBN 978-0-8047-1405-1.
- ISBN 978-1-139-50201-6.
- ISBN 978-0-7923-6787-1.
- JSTOR 563419.
- ISBN 978-0-85991-593-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-62233-2.
- ISBN 978-90-04-08513-8.
- ISBN 978-0-8014-7537-5.
- ISBN 978-0140600155.
- ^ Sir Walter Scott (1838). Poetical works. Vol. 2. Baudry's European Library. p. 200.
- ISBN 978-0-300-16839-6.
- ^ MacLean, Gerald, editor. The Return of the King : An Anthology of English Poems Commemorating the Restoration of Charles II, Grebner's prophecy from Lexicon Tetraglotton.
- ISBN 978-0-7923-6848-9.
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