Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (also spelled Nikodemus) (22 September 1547 – 29 November 1590) was a German
philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Erzingen, today part of Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister.[1]
Life
He was educated as a scholar of "emperor Maximilian II, he was rewarded with the laureateship, and in 1577 he was made an imperial
count palatine (Comes palatinus Caesareus) or Pfalzgraf.[1]
In 1582 his unguarded language and reckless life made it necessary that he should leave Tübingen, and he accepted a mastership at Laibach in Carniola (nowadays
libelous letters, which led to his being arrested in March 1590. He was imprisoned in the fortress of Hohenurach, near Reutlingen, where, on the night of 29 November 1590, he was killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell.[1]
Work
Frischlin's prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, which entitle him to some rank both among poets and among scholars. In his
Bucolics of Virgil, though now well-nigh forgotten, were important contributions to the scholarship of his time. There is no collected edition of his works, but his Opera poetica were published twelve times between 1535 and 1636.[1]
Among those most widely known may be mentioned:
- the Hebraeis (1590), a Latin epic based on the Scripture history of the Jews
- the Elegiaca (1601), his collected lyric poetry, in twenty-two books
- the Opera scenica (1604) consisting of six comedies and two tragedies (among the former, Julius Caesar redivivus, completed 1584)
- the Grammatica Latina (1585)
- the versions of Callimachus and Aristophanes
- the commentaries on Persius and Virgil
See the monograph of
David Friedrich Strauss (Leben und Schriften des Dichters und Philologen Frischlin, 1856).[1]
Literature
- D. F. Strauß, "Leben und Schriften des Dichters und Philologen Nicodemus Frischlin", 1856.
- S. Holtz, D. Mertens (Hsg.), "Nicodemus Frischlin (1547 - 1590), poetische und prosaische Praxis unter den Bedingungen des konfessionellen Zeitalters", Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt 1999.
- Gustav Bebermeyer: Nicodemus Frischlin. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Bd. 5, S. 620
References
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Frischlin, Philipp Nikodemus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.
- Južnič, Stanislav; Marjan Prosen. "Frischlin, pomembni evropski astronom 16. stoletja, v Ljubljani" (PDF). Proteus, mesečnik za poljudno naravoslovje. October 2007. (in Slovenian). Prirodoslovno društvo Slovenije. pp. 16–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
External links
- Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin in .jpg and .tiff format.
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