See also:JAKOB See also:BALDE (1604-1668)
, See also:German Latinist, was See also:born at Ensisheim in See also:Alsace on the 4th of See also:January 1604
.
Driven from Alsace by the marauding bands of See also:Count See also:Mansfeld, he fled to See also:Ingolstadt where he began to study See also:law
.
A love disappointment, however, turned his thoughts to the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and in 1624 he entered the Society of Jesus
.
Continuing his study of the humanities, he became in 1628 See also:professor of See also:rhetoric at See also:Innsbruck, and in 1635 at Ingolstadt, whither he had been transferred by his superiors in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to study See also:theology
.
In 1633 he was ordained See also:priest
.
His lectures and poems had now made him famous, and he was summoned to See also:Munich where, in 1638, he became See also:court See also:chaplain to the elector See also:Maximilian I
.
He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at See also:Landshut and afterwards at See also:Amberg
.
In 1654 he was transferred to Neuberg on the See also:Danube, as court preacher and See also:confessor to the count See also:palatine
.
In the See also:opinion of his contemporaries, See also:Balde revived the glories of the Augustan See also:age, and See also:Pope See also:Alexander VII. and the scholars of the See also:Netherlands combined to do him See also:honour; even See also:Herder regarded him as a greater poet than See also:Horace
.
While such judgments are naturally exaggerated, there is no doubt that he takes a very high See also:place among See also:modern Latin poets
.
He died at Neuberg on the 9th of See also:August 1668
.
A collected edition of Balde's See also:works in 4 vols. was published at See also:Cologne in 165o; a more See also:complete edition in 8 vols. at Munich, 1729; also a See also:good selection by L
.
Spach (See also:Paris and See also:Strassburg, 1871)
.
An edition of his Latin lyrics appeared at See also:Regensburg in 1884
.
There are See also:translations into German of his finer odes, by J
.
Schrott and M
.
Schleich (Munich, 1870)
.
See G
.
Westermayer, Jacobus Balde, sein Leben and See also:seine Werke (1868) ; J
.
See also:Bach, See also:Jakob Balde (See also:Freiburg, 1904)
.
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