JOHANN VON See also:RIST (1607-1667)
, See also:German poet, was See also:born at Ottensen in See also:Holstein on the 8th of See also:March 1607; the son of-See also:RISTITCH
the Lutheran pastor of that See also:place
.
He received his See also:early training in See also:Hamburg and See also:Bremen; after studying See also:theology at Rinteln and See also:Rostock, he became in 1633 private See also:tutor in a See also:family of See also:Heide, and two years later (1635) was appointed pastor of the See also:village of Wedel on the See also:Elbe, where he laboured until his See also:death on the 31st of See also:August 1667
.
See also:Rist first made his name known to the See also:literary See also:world by a See also:drama, See also:Perseus (1634), which he wrote while at Heide, and in the next succeeding years he produced a number of dramatic See also:works of which the See also:allegory Das friedewunschende Teutschland (1647) and Das friedejauchzends Teutschland (1653) (new ed. of both by H
.
M
.
Schletterer, 1864) are the most interesting
.
Rist soon became the central figure in a school of See also:minor poets, and honours were showered upon him from every See also:side
.
The See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand III. crowned him See also:laureate in 1644, ennobled him in 1653, and invested him with the dignity of a See also:Count See also:Palatine, an See also:honour which enabled him to See also:crown, and to gain numerous poets for the Elbschwanen 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, a literary and poetical society which he founded in 1656
.
He had already, in 1645, been admitted, under the name " See also:Daphnis aus Cimbrien," to the literary order of See also:Pegnitz, and in 1647 he became, as " Der Rustige," a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft
.
It is, however, as a writer of 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 See also:hymns (see HYMNS) that Rist is best known to fame
.
Among these several are still retained in the evangelical hymn See also:book: e.g
.
0 Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort and Ermunt're See also:dick, mein schwacher Geist
.
Collections of his poems appeared under the titles Musa Teutonica (1634) and Himmlische Lieder
(1643)
.
Selections of Rist's writings have been published by W
.
See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller in vol. viii. of his Bibliothek deutscher Dichter See also:des 77
.
Jahrh
.
(1822-1838), and by K
.
Goedeke and E
.
Goeze (1885)
.
See T
.
See also:Hansen, Johann Rist and See also:seine Zeit (1872); K
.
T
.
Gaedertz, J
.
Rist als niederdeutscher Dramatiker (Jahrb. f. niederdeutsche Sprache, vol. vii., 1881); and M. von Waldberg's See also:article in the Allg. deutsche Biographic
.
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