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SIMON DACH (1605-1659)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 726 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMON DACH (1605-1659)  , German lyrical poet, was born at Memel in East Prussia on the 29th of
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July 16o5 . Although brought up in humble circumstances, he received a careful
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education in the classical
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schools of Konigsberg,
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Wittenberg and
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Magdeburg, and entered the university of Konigsberg in 1626 as a student of
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theology and philosophy . After taking his degree, he was appointed in 1633 Kollaborator (teacher) and in 1636 co-rector of the Domschule (
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cathedral school) in that city . In 1639 be received the chair of
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poetry at the university of Konigsberg, which he occupied until his
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death on the 15th of
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April 1659 . In Konigsberg he entered into close relations with Heinrich Albert (1604-1651), Robert Roberthin (1600-1648) and Sibylla Schwarz (1621-1638), and with them formed the so-called Konigsberger Dictergruppe . He sang the praises of the house of the electors of
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Brandenburg in a collection of poems entitled Kurbrandenburgische Rose, Adler, Lowe und Scepter (1661), and also produced many occasional poems, several of which became popular; the most famous of them is Anke von Tharaw
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mss, de my gefollt (rendered by Herder into
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modern German as Annchen von Tharau), composed in 1637 in honourof the
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marriage of a friend . Among his
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hymns, many of which are of
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great beauty, are the following: Ich
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bin ja, Herr, in deiner Marht, Ich bin bei Gott in Gnaden durch Christi Blut und Tod, and 0, wie Selig seid ihr both, ihr Frommen .
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Editions of Dacli's poems have been published by . W . Muller (1823), by H . Osterley (ffor the
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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 .

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Simon Duch, sein Leben und seine ausgewahlte Dichtungen (1896) .

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