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DACH, SIMON (1605-1659)

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DACH, See also:SIMON (1605-1659) , See also:German lyrical poet, was See also:born at See also:Memel in See also:East See also:Prussia on the 29th of See also:July 16o5. Although brought up in humble circumstances, he received a careful See also:education in the classical See also:schools of See also:Konigsberg, See also:Wittenberg and See also:Magdeburg, and entered the university of Konigsberg in 1626 as a student of See also:theology and See also:philosophy. After taking his degree, he was appointed in 1633 Kollaborator (teacher) and in 1636 co-See also:rector of the Domschule (See also:cathedral school) in that See also:city. In 1639 be received the See also:chair of See also:poetry at the university of Konigsberg, which he occupied until his See also:death on the 15th of See also:April 1659. In Konigsberg he entered into See also:close relations with Heinrich See also:Albert (1604-1651), See also:Robert Roberthin (1600-1648) and Sibylla See also:Schwarz (1621-1638), and with them formed the so-called Konigsberger Dictergruppe. He sang the praises of the See also:house of the See also:electors of See also:Brandenburg in a collection of poems entitled Kurbrandenburgische See also:Rose, See also:Adler, See also:Lowe und Scepter (1661), and also produced many occasional poems, several of which became popular; the most famous of them is Anke von Tharaw See also:mss, de my gefollt (rendered by See also:Herder into See also:modern German as Annchen von Tharau), composed in 1637 in honourof the See also:marriage of a friend. Among his See also:hymns, many of which are of See also:great beauty, are the following: Ich See also:bin ja, Herr, in deiner Marht, Ich bin bei Gott in Gnaden durch Christi Blut und See also:Tod, and 0, wie Selig seid ihr both, ihr Frommen. See also:Editions of Dacli's poems have been published by . W. See also:Muller (1823), by H. Osterley (ffor the See also:Stuttgart Literarischer Verein, r876) ; also selections by the same editor (1876), and in Kursthnerfs Deutsche Nationalliteratur (1883). See especially the introductions to Osterley's editions; also H.

Stiehler, Simon Duch, sein Leben und See also:

seine ausgewahlte Dichtungen (1896).

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