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OPITZ VON BOBERFELD, See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN (1597-1639) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Bunzla.0 in See also:Silesia on the 23rd of See also:December 1597, the son of a prosperous See also:citizen. He received his See also:early See also:education at the Gymnasium of his native See also:town, of which his See also:uncle was See also:rector, and in 1617 attended the high school—" Schonaichianum "—at See also:Beuthen, where he made a See also:special study of See also:French, Dutch and See also:Italian See also:poetry. In 1618 he entered the university of See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Oder as a student of literae humaniores, and in the same See also:year published his first See also:essay, See also:Aristarchus, sive De contemptu linguae Teutonicae, a plea for the See also:purification of the German See also:language from See also:foreign See also:adulteration. In 1619 he went to See also:Heidelberg, where he became the See also:leader of the school of See also:young poets which at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time made that university town remarkable. Visiting See also:Leiden in the following year he sat at the feet of the famous Dutch lyric poet See also:Daniel See also:Heinsius (1580-1655), whose Lobgesang Jesu Christi and Lobgesang Bacchi he had already translated into alexandrines. After being for a See also:short year (1622) See also:professor of See also:philosophy at the Gymnasium of See also:Weissenburg (now Karlsburg) in Transylvania; he led a wandering See also:life in the service of various territorial nobles. In 1624 he was appointed councillor to See also:Duke See also:George See also:Rudolf of See also:Liegnitz and See also:Brieg in Silesia, and in 1625, as See also:reward for a See also:requiem poem composed on the See also:death of See also:Archduke See also:Charles of See also:Austria, was crowned See also:laureate by the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand II. who a few years later ennobled him under the See also:title " von Boberfeld." He was elected a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft in 1629, and in 1630 went to See also:Paris, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Hugo See also:Grotius. He settled in 1635 at See also:Danzig, where See also:Ladislaus IV. of See also:Poland made him his historiographer and secretary. Here he died of the See also:plague on the loth of See also:August 1639.
Opitz was the See also:head of the so-called First Silesian School of poets(see See also:GERMANY :Literature), and was during his life regarded as the greatest German poet. Although he would not to-See also:day be considered a poetical See also:genius, he may justly claim to have been the " See also:father of German poetry " in respect at least of its See also:form; his See also:Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624) put an end to the See also:hybridism that had until then prevailed, and established rules for the " purity " of language, See also:style, See also:verse and See also:rhyme. Opitz's own poems are in accordance with the rigorous rules which he laid down. They are mostly a formal and sober elaboration of carefully considered themes, and contain little beauty and less feeling. To this didactic and descriptive See also:category belong his best poems, Trost-Gedichte in Widerwartigkeit See also:des Krieges (written 1621, but not published till 1633); Zlatna, oder von Rieke des Gemuts (1622); Lob des Feldlebens (1623); Vielgut, oder vom wahren Glitch (1629), and See also:Vesuvius (1633). These contain some vivid poetical descriptions, but are in the See also:main See also:treatises in poetical form. In 1624 Opitz published a collected edition of his poetry under the title Acht See also:Bucher deutscher Poematum (though, owing to a See also:mistake on the See also:part of the printer, there are only five books); his Dafne (1627), to which Heinrich Schutz composed the See also:music, is the earliest German See also:opera. Besides numerous See also:translations, Opitz edited (1639) Das Annolied, a See also:Middle High German poem of the end of the 11th See also:century, and thus preserved it from oblivion.
Collected See also:editions of Opitz's See also:works appeared in 1625, 1629, 1637, 1641, 1690 and 1746. His Ausgewahlte Dichtungen have been edited by J. Tittmann (1869) and by H. Oesterley (Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. See also:xxvii. 1889). There are See also:modern reprints of the Buch von der deutschen Poeterey by W. Braune (2nd ed., 1882), and, together with Aristarchus, by G. Witkowski (1888), and also of the Teutsche Poemata, of 1624, by G. Witkowski (1902). See H. See also:Palm, Beitrage zurGeschichte der deutschen Literatur des 16ten and.7ten Jahrhunderts (1877); K. Borinski, See also:Die Poetik der See also:Renaissance (1886); R. Beckherrn, Opitz, See also:Ronsard and Heinsius (1888). Bibliography by H. Oesterley in the Zentralblatt See also:fur Bibliothekswesen for 1885.
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