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FRISCHLIN, PHILIPP NIKODEMUS (1547—1S9o)

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FRISCHLIN, PHILIPP NIKODEMUS (1547—1S9o) , See also:German philologist and poet, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:September 1547 at Balingen in See also:Wurttemberg, where his See also:father was See also:parish See also:minister. He was educated at the university of See also:Tubingen, where in 1568 he was promoted to the See also:chair of See also:poetry and See also:history. In 1575 for his See also:comedy of Rebecca, which he read at See also:Regensburg before the See also:emperor See also:Maximilian II., he was rewarded with the laureateship, and in 1577 he was made a See also:count See also:palatine (comes palatinus) or Pfalzgraf. In 1582 his unguarded See also:language and reckless See also:life made it necessary that he should leave Tubingen, and he accepted a mastership at See also:Laibach in See also:Carniola, which he held for about two years. Shortly after his return to the university in 1584, he was threatened with a criminal See also:prosecution on a See also:charge of immoral conduct, and the See also:threat led to his withdrawal to See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main in 1587. For eighteen months he taught in the See also:Brunswick gymnasium, and he appears also to have resided occasionally at See also:Strassburg, See also:Marburg and See also:Mainz. From the last-named See also:city he wrote certain libellous letters, which led to his being arrested in See also:March 1590. He was imprisoned in the fortress of Hohenurach, near See also:Reutlingen, where, on the See also:night of the 29th of See also:November 1590, he was killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his See also:cell. Frischlin's prolific and versatile See also:genius produced a See also:great variety of See also:works, which entitle him to some See also:rank both among poets and among scholars. In his Latin See also:verse he often successfully imitated the classical See also:models; his comedies are not without freshness and vivacity; and some of his versions and commentaries, particularly those on the Georgics and See also:Bucolics of See also:Virgil, though now well-nigh forgotten, were important contributions to the scholarship of his See also:time. There is no collected edition of his works, but his See also:Opera poetica were published twelve times between 1535 and 1636. Among those most widely known may be mentioned the Hebraeis (1590), a Latin epic based on the Scripture history of the See also: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, See also:Julius See also:Caesar redivivus, completed 1584) ; the Grammatica See also:Latina (1585); the versions of See also:Callimachus and See also:Aristophanes; and the commentaries on See also:Persius and Virgil.

See the monograph of D. F. See also:

Strauss (Leben and Schriften See also:des Dichters and Philologen Frischlin, 1856).

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