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Daniel Casper von Lohenstein

February 02, 2023

Daniel Casper (25 January 1635 in Nimptsch, Niederschlesien – 28 April 1683 in Breslau, Niederschlesien), also spelled Daniel Caspar, and referred to from 1670 as Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, was a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat, poet, and chief representative of the Second Silesian School [de].

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein im XLIX. Jahr

Family

The Casper and/or Caspar (Latin: Caspari) family came from the Brieg principality, first well known as poet and diplomats.

Daniel Casper was the son of the imperial customs-officer, Akzisefälle-Einnehmers and Biergefälle-Einnehmers named Johann (Hans) Casper (c.1600-after 1670), alderman and city constable of Nimptsch, and Susanna Schedel of Greiffenstein (1612–1652). His father Hans in 1642 received a Wappenbrief and was raised on 17 July 1670 to a hereditary imperial peerage, with the name of "von Lohenstein".

Life

Youth

Daniel Casper was born 1635 in the princely Schloss Nimptsch, to which his parents had withdrawn during the Thirty Years' War. After initial private instruction in Nimptsch, his father sent him to Breslau where Caspar from 1642 to 1651 attended the Magdalenen-School, that had been upgraded in 1643 into a secondary school (Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium). In the midpoint of his philological and rhetorical education there, he already as eleven-year-old student carried out disputations with antique examples over what qualified one to be a peer. At 15 he composed his first tragedy, "Ibrahim". Lohenstein was friendly with Heinrich Mühlpfort.

After finishing secondary school, Casper had to leave Breslau because there was as yet no university in the town. At the University of Leipzig he studied under Benedikt Carpzov (1595–1666), the founder of the German criminal justice system, and at the University of Tübingen with Wolfgang Adam Lauterbach (1618–1678), where on 6 June 1655 he produced his Disputation ("Disputation Jurudica de Voluntate").

After finishing his studies, the (at that time usual) Grand Tour which he joined led him first of all to the sovereign courts of Germany, then to Switzerland, Leiden, Utrecht and Vienna (but not Italy, due to the plague then raging there). With Italy ruled out, he spent some time in Hungary, coming into contact with the Turkish-Oriental cultural circles there.

Recalled by his father, he came home by ship, through a strong thunderstorm he remembered his whole life, in which he saw the sinking of 13 ships. After his homecoming, he established himself as a lawyer in Breslau and on 30 October 1657, at 22, in Breslau, he married Elisabeth Herrmann (died 1708 in Zettritz, Landkreis Landsberg (Warthe) ), Mark Brandenburg), the daughter of Caspar Herrmann, Amtmann for Breslau's state property (Landgüter des Rats).

Patronage

He had in 1665 produced his second poetic work, the tragedy "Aggrippina", dedicated to duchess Louise von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau (born princess of Anhalt-Dessau). Louise's queen-regent Elisabeth Marie in 1668 founded a Regierungsrat at Oels. Caspar was, as a scholar, advising Louise and also helped in the design and construction of the Piasten-Gruft (tomb) in Liegnitz. Duke Christian strove to attract him to his court as a secret advisor, but Caspar declined before returning 1670 to Breslau, where a successful and promising career beckoned.

Already as student, he had moved among the patrician circles of the Breslau city-state and beyond. Now the eldest advisor there, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679) advocated Caspar as a poet and other works of his - like his famous funeral oration of 1679 addressed to Christian - were very admired. He came, on the abdication of the Obersyndikus Peter Muck von Muckendorff 1670, to receive the presidency of the Herzogtums Lauenburg, with the second Syndikus, Andreas von Assig, taking his place as Obersyndikus. Thus Caspar von Lohenstein became a Syndikus at Assig.

Syndic and diplomat in Breslau

Thus he arrived in one of the most important offices of the city. The elevation of his family into the peerage a few weeks later might have been meant more for him than for his father. In the year 1675, Assig had to abandon his office due to illness and Caspar took his place as Obersyndikus, holding that office for the eight years until his death.

The governing of Schlesien after the Thirty Years' War was strongly marked by anti-reforming efforts. When an imperial edict commanded the dismissal of all Protestant schoolteachers, the danger of an occupation of Breslau by imperial troops under the leadership of the general Kop was so great that Caspar was dispatched to Vienna for negotiations. With the diplomatic skill of an educated man, he succeeded, moving the emperor so much that he gave up his demand. The city took advantage of his high diplomatic capabilities even more often, sending him as an ambassador, though he still achieved much as a lawyer as well as proving himself as a diplomat and politician.

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein was the owner of several towns. He acquired in 1673 the Kittelau from duchess (Herzogin) Louise von Brieg and in the same year inherited Reisau and Roschkowitz from Tobias von Kleindienst. As an acknowledged poet, an ennobled Obersyndikus and landowner, Caspar was at his peak of life in the 1670s. Turning always more strongly towards the Habsburg position, he was appointed an imperial advisor in 1675. He died at the family Schloss at Breslau, Niederschlesien, of a stroke in 1683.

Works

Casper's production as a poet, especially when considered together with his contemporaneous work as lawyer and diplomat, is astonishing. Extremely productive, he was above all known as an author of theatrical pieces marked by the well known French Classicism in drama and as - next to Andreas Gryphius - one of the most important dramatists of the baroque. In addition to this he was known as a poet and as a translator.

His novel "Großmütiger Feldherr Arminius", comprising around 3000 pages, appeared between 1689–90 and was a highpoint of baroque romantic art, despite concerns over the often obscure and overwrought language. In it he put up for discussion the situation of the German empire after the Thirty Years' War and tries to take stock of contemporary knowledge.

His lyric poetry was published in periodic periodicals.[1] He used exaggeration and overdramatisation in his works to work out the contrast to the "better" reality, and they thus stand in the tradition of Senecan tragedy.

Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein in many of his writings showed his views on statesmanship and the art of ruling, similar to "Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau" views.

List of works

  • „Ibrahim, 1649/50 (first printed after his death in 1685)
  • Cypress-Tafel, (tragic poem or lyric), 1652
  • Denk- und Dankaltar, 1652
  • Ibrahim, Trauerspiel (Tragedy), 1653
  • Rechtsstreit der Schönheit und Freundlichkeit, 1657
  • Trauer- und Trostgedanken, 1658
  • Schuldiges Ehren-Gedächtnis, 1660
  • Cleopatra, Drama, 1661
  • Redender Totenkopf, 1662
  • Erlangte Ewigkeit, 1664
  • Agrippina, Trauerspiel, 1665
  • Epicharis, Trauerspiel, 1665
  • Ibrahim Sultan, Schauspiel (tragedy that ends happily), 1673
  • Blumen, poem, 1680
  • Geistliche Gedanken, poem, 1680
  • Trauer- und Lustgedichte, 1680
  • Sophonisbe, Drama, 1680
  • Großmütiger Feldherr Arminius, Roman (novel), 1689-90

Further reading

  • Gerhard Spellerberg: Daniel Casper von Lohenstein. In: „Deutsche Dichter des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Leben und Werk“. Hrsg.: Harald Steinhagen und Benno Wiese. Berlin 1984
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: "Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683)", in: Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock, Bd. 4. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, S. 2589-2606. ISBN 3-7772-9122-6
  • Thomas Borgstedt: Reichsidee und Liebesethik. Eine Rekonstruktion des Lohensteinschen Arminiusromans (Studien zur deutschen Literatur 121). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-484-18121-4
  • Dieter Kafitz: Lohenstein's Arminius. Disputatorisches Verfahren und Lehrgehalt in einem Roman zwischen Barock und Aufklärung (Germanistische Abhandlungen 32). Metzler, Stuttgart 1970
  • Oskar Pusch: Die Breslauer Rats- und Stadtgeschlechter in der Zeit von 1241 bis 1741, Bd. 3, S. 44 ff. (Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa an der Universität Dortmund/Reihe B; Bd. 38). Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-923293-25-9
  • Gerhard Spellerberg: Verhängnis und Geschichte. Untersuchungen zu den Trauerspielen und dem Arminius-Roman Daniel Caspers von Lohenstein. Gehlen, Bad Homburg v.d.H. 1970
  • Elida M. Szarota: Lohensteins Arminius als Zeitroman. Sichtweisen des Spätbarock. Francke, Bern 1970
  • Max Wehrli: Das barocke Geschichtsbild in Lohensteins Arminius (Wege zur Dichtung 31). Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1938
  • Wolf Wucherpfennig: Klugheit und Weltordnung. Das Problem politischen Handelns in Lohensteins Arminius (Deutsche Literatur- und Sprachstudien/Reihe A; Bd. 2). Becksmann, Freiburg/B. 1973

References

  1. ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-22.

External links

  • Online catalogue of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
  • "Works by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein". Zeno.org (in German).
  • Casper von Lohenstein: Cleopatra, Trauerspiel of 1661
  • Short biography
  • Wikisource (de)
  • Works by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)  

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This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations July 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Daniel Casper 25 January 1635 in Nimptsch Niederschlesien 28 April 1683 in Breslau Niederschlesien also spelled Daniel Caspar and referred to from 1670 as Daniel Casper von Lohenstein was a Baroque Silesian playwright lawyer diplomat poet and chief representative of the Second Silesian School de Daniel Casper von Lohenstein im XLIX Jahr Contents 1 Family 2 Life 2 1 Youth 2 2 Patronage 2 3 Syndic and diplomat in Breslau 3 Works 3 1 List of works 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External linksFamily EditThe Casper and or Caspar Latin Caspari family came from the Brieg principality first well known as poet and diplomats Daniel Casper was the son of the imperial customs officer Akzisefalle Einnehmers and Biergefalle Einnehmers named Johann Hans Casper c 1600 after 1670 alderman and city constable of Nimptsch and Susanna Schedel of Greiffenstein 1612 1652 His father Hans in 1642 received a Wappenbrief and was raised on 17 July 1670 to a hereditary imperial peerage with the name of von Lohenstein Life EditYouth Edit Daniel Casper was born 1635 in the princely Schloss Nimptsch to which his parents had withdrawn during the Thirty Years War After initial private instruction in Nimptsch his father sent him to Breslau where Caspar from 1642 to 1651 attended the Magdalenen School that had been upgraded in 1643 into a secondary school Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium In the midpoint of his philological and rhetorical education there he already as eleven year old student carried out disputations with antique examples over what qualified one to be a peer At 15 he composed his first tragedy Ibrahim Lohenstein was friendly with Heinrich Muhlpfort After finishing secondary school Casper had to leave Breslau because there was as yet no university in the town At the University of Leipzig he studied under Benedikt Carpzov 1595 1666 the founder of the German criminal justice system and at the University of Tubingen with Wolfgang Adam Lauterbach 1618 1678 where on 6 June 1655 he produced his Disputation Disputation Jurudica de Voluntate After finishing his studies the at that time usual Grand Tour which he joined led him first of all to the sovereign courts of Germany then to Switzerland Leiden Utrecht and Vienna but not Italy due to the plague then raging there With Italy ruled out he spent some time in Hungary coming into contact with the Turkish Oriental cultural circles there Recalled by his father he came home by ship through a strong thunderstorm he remembered his whole life in which he saw the sinking of 13 ships After his homecoming he established himself as a lawyer in Breslau and on 30 October 1657 at 22 in Breslau he married Elisabeth Herrmann died 1708 in Zettritz Landkreis Landsberg Warthe Mark Brandenburg the daughter of Caspar Herrmann Amtmann for Breslau s state property Landguter des Rats Patronage Edit He had in 1665 produced his second poetic work the tragedy Aggrippina dedicated to duchess Louise von Liegnitz Brieg Wohlau born princess of Anhalt Dessau Louise s queen regent Elisabeth Marie in 1668 founded a Regierungsrat at Oels Caspar was as a scholar advising Louise and also helped in the design and construction of the Piasten Gruft tomb in Liegnitz Duke Christian strove to attract him to his court as a secret advisor but Caspar declined before returning 1670 to Breslau where a successful and promising career beckoned Already as student he had moved among the patrician circles of the Breslau city state and beyond Now the eldest advisor there Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau 1616 1679 advocated Caspar as a poet and other works of his like his famous funeral oration of 1679 addressed to Christian were very admired He came on the abdication of the Obersyndikus Peter Muck von Muckendorff 1670 to receive the presidency of the Herzogtums Lauenburg with the second Syndikus Andreas von Assig taking his place as Obersyndikus Thus Caspar von Lohenstein became a Syndikus at Assig Syndic and diplomat in Breslau Edit Thus he arrived in one of the most important offices of the city The elevation of his family into the peerage a few weeks later might have been meant more for him than for his father In the year 1675 Assig had to abandon his office due to illness and Caspar took his place as Obersyndikus holding that office for the eight years until his death The governing of Schlesien after the Thirty Years War was strongly marked by anti reforming efforts When an imperial edict commanded the dismissal of all Protestant schoolteachers the danger of an occupation of Breslau by imperial troops under the leadership of the general Kop was so great that Caspar was dispatched to Vienna for negotiations With the diplomatic skill of an educated man he succeeded moving the emperor so much that he gave up his demand The city took advantage of his high diplomatic capabilities even more often sending him as an ambassador though he still achieved much as a lawyer as well as proving himself as a diplomat and politician Daniel Casper von Lohenstein was the owner of several towns He acquired in 1673 the Kittelau from duchess Herzogin Louise von Brieg and in the same year inherited Reisau and Roschkowitz from Tobias von Kleindienst As an acknowledged poet an ennobled Obersyndikus and landowner Caspar was at his peak of life in the 1670s Turning always more strongly towards the Habsburg position he was appointed an imperial advisor in 1675 He died at the family Schloss at Breslau Niederschlesien of a stroke in 1683 Works EditCasper s production as a poet especially when considered together with his contemporaneous work as lawyer and diplomat is astonishing Extremely productive he was above all known as an author of theatrical pieces marked by the well known French Classicism in drama and as next to Andreas Gryphius one of the most important dramatists of the baroque In addition to this he was known as a poet and as a translator His novel Grossmutiger Feldherr Arminius comprising around 3000 pages appeared between 1689 90 and was a highpoint of baroque romantic art despite concerns over the often obscure and overwrought language In it he put up for discussion the situation of the German empire after the Thirty Years War and tries to take stock of contemporary knowledge His lyric poetry was published in periodic periodicals 1 He used exaggeration and overdramatisation in his works to work out the contrast to the better reality and they thus stand in the tradition of Senecan tragedy Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein in many of his writings showed his views on statesmanship and the art of ruling similar to Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau views List of works Edit Ibrahim 1649 50 first printed after his death in 1685 Cypress Tafel tragic poem or lyric 1652 Denk und Dankaltar 1652 Ibrahim Trauerspiel Tragedy 1653 Rechtsstreit der Schonheit und Freundlichkeit 1657 Trauer und Trostgedanken 1658 Schuldiges Ehren Gedachtnis 1660 Cleopatra Drama 1661 Redender Totenkopf 1662 Erlangte Ewigkeit 1664 Agrippina Trauerspiel 1665 Epicharis Trauerspiel 1665 Ibrahim Sultan Schauspiel tragedy that ends happily 1673 Blumen poem 1680 Geistliche Gedanken poem 1680 Trauer und Lustgedichte 1680 Sophonisbe Drama 1680 Grossmutiger Feldherr Arminius Roman novel 1689 90Further reading EditGerhard Spellerberg Daniel Casper von Lohenstein In Deutsche Dichter des 17 Jahrhunderts Ihr Leben und Werk Hrsg Harald Steinhagen und Benno Wiese Berlin 1984 Gerhard Dunnhaupt Daniel Casper von Lohenstein 1635 1683 in Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock Bd 4 Stuttgart Hiersemann 1991 S 2589 2606 ISBN 3 7772 9122 6 Thomas Borgstedt Reichsidee und Liebesethik Eine Rekonstruktion des Lohensteinschen Arminiusromans Studien zur deutschen Literatur 121 Niemeyer Tubingen 1992 ISBN 3 484 18121 4 Dieter Kafitz Lohenstein s Arminius Disputatorisches Verfahren und Lehrgehalt in einem Roman zwischen Barock und Aufklarung Germanistische Abhandlungen 32 Metzler Stuttgart 1970 Oskar Pusch Die Breslauer Rats und Stadtgeschlechter in der Zeit von 1241 bis 1741 Bd 3 S 44 ff Veroffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa an der Universitat Dortmund Reihe B Bd 38 Dortmund 1988 ISBN 3 923293 25 9 Gerhard Spellerberg Verhangnis und Geschichte Untersuchungen zu den Trauerspielen und dem Arminius Roman Daniel Caspers von Lohenstein Gehlen Bad Homburg v d H 1970 Elida M Szarota Lohensteins Arminius als Zeitroman Sichtweisen des Spatbarock Francke Bern 1970 Max Wehrli Das barocke Geschichtsbild in Lohensteins Arminius Wege zur Dichtung 31 Verlag Huber Frauenfeld 1938 Wolf Wucherpfennig Klugheit und Weltordnung Das Problem politischen Handelns in Lohensteins Arminius Deutsche Literatur und Sprachstudien Reihe A Bd 2 Becksmann Freiburg B 1973References Edit eLib Austria full texts Archived from the original on 2007 09 29 Retrieved 2007 07 22 External links EditOnline catalogue of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Works by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein Zeno org in German Casper von Lohenstein Cleopatra Trauerspiel of 1661 Von Lohenstein in the eLibrary Austria Projekt Short biography Wikisource de Works by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Daniel Casper von Lohenstein amp oldid 1111037188, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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