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 OPITZ VON BOBERFELD (1597-1639)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Bunzla.0 in See also:

• SILESIA

Silesia on the 23rd of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1597, the son of a prosperous See also:

• CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen . He received his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• EDUCATION

education at the Gymnasium of his native See also:

• TOWN

town, of which his See also:

• UNCLE

uncle was See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector, and in 1617 attended the high school—" Schonaichianum "—at See also:

• BEUTHEN, or NIEDERBEUTHEN
• BEUTHEN, or OBERBEUTHEN

Beuthen, where he made a See also:

• SPECIAL

special study of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, Dutch and See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• POETRY

poetry . In 1618 he entered the university of See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

Oder as a student of literae humaniores, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year published his first See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay, See also:

• ARISTARCHUS

Aristarchus, sive De contemptu linguae Teutonicae, a plea for the See also:

• PURIFICATION

purification of the German See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language from See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• ADULTERATION
• ADULTERATION (from Lat. adulterare, to defile or falsify)

adulteration . In 1619 he went to See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, where he became the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the school of See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

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

Leiden in the following year he sat at the feet of the famous Dutch lyric poet See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel See also:

• HEINSIUS (or HEINS) DANIEL (1580-1655)
• HEINSIUS, NIKOLAES (1620-1681)

Heinsius (1580-1655), whose Lobgesang Jesu Christi and Lobgesang Bacchi he had already translated into alexandrines . After being for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short year (1622) See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at the Gymnasium of See also:

• WEISSENBURG

Weissenburg (now Karlsburg) in Transylvania; he led a wandering See also:

• LIFE

life in the service of various territorial nobles . In 1624 he was appointed councillor to See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

Rudolf of See also:

• LIEGNITZ

Liegnitz and See also:

• BRIEG

Brieg in Silesia, and in 1625, as See also:

• REWARD

reward for a See also:

• REQUIEM

requiem poem composed on the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

Archduke See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles of See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria, was crowned See also:

• LAUREATE (Lat. laureatus, from laurea, the laurel tree)

laureate by the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand II. who a few years later ennobled him under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title " von Boberfeld." He was elected a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft in 1629, and in 1630 went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where he made the acquaintance of See also:

• HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)
• HUGO, VICTOR MARIE (1802-1885)

Hugo See also:

• GROTIUS, HUGO (1583-1645)

Grotius . He settled in 1635 at See also:

• DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig, where See also:

• LADISLAUS [I.]

Ladislaus IV. of See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland made him his historiographer and secretary . Here he died of the See also:

• PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague on the loth of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1639 . Opitz was the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the so-called First Silesian School of poets(see See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

GERMANY :Literature), and was during his life regarded as the greatest German poet . Although he would not to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day be considered a poetical See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, he may justly claim to have been the " See also:

• FATHER

father of German poetry " in respect at least of its See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form; his See also:

• BUCH
• BUCH, CHRISTIAN LEOPOLD VON, BARON (1774-1853)

Buch von der deutschen Poeterey (1624) put an end to the See also:

• HYBRIDISM

hybridism that had until then prevailed, and established rules for the " purity " of language, See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse and See also:

• RHYME

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 (Gr. Karrlyopia, " accusation ")

category belong his best poems, Trost-Gedichte in Widerwartigkeit See also:

• DES

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 (also Vesevus in ancient poets)

Vesuvius (1633) . These contain some vivid poetical descriptions, but are in the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• TREATISES

treatises in poetical form . In 1624 Opitz published a collected edition of his poetry under the title Acht See also:

• BUCHER, LOTHAR (1817–1892)

Bucher deutscher Poematum (though, owing to a See also:

• MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake on the See also:

• PART

part of the printer, there are only five books); his Dafne (1627), to which Heinrich Schutz composed the See also:

• MUSIC

music, is the earliest German See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera . Besides numerous See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations, Opitz edited (1639) Das Annolied, a See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle High German poem of the end of the 11th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and thus preserved it from oblivion . Collected See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Opitz's See also:

• WORKS

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

xxvii . 1889) . There are See also:

• MODERN

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 (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

Palm, Beitrage zurGeschichte der deutschen Literatur des 16ten and.7ten Jahrhunderts (1877); K . Borinski, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Poetik der See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance (1886); R . Beckherrn, Opitz, See also:

• RONSARD, PIERRE DE (1524-1585)

Ronsard and Heinsius (1888) . Bibliography by H . Oesterley in the Zentralblatt See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Bibliothekswesen for 1885 .