Georg Thym (c.1520,
Zwickau – 21 December 1560,
Wittenberg) was a German teacher, poet and writer.
Life
Thym attended school in his home town and then, from 1540, attended the
University of Wittenberg, where he met (among others)
Martin Luther and
Philipp Melanchthon
Philip Melanchthon. (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lu ...
, who remained his lifelong friends. After graduating from his
"Grundstudium", in 1544 Thym took up a post as under-teacher in
Magdeburg, where he was a colleague of
Martin Agricola.
He soon moved to a school in
Zerbst and – after acquiring his master's degree in Wittenberg – became rector of the school in his hometown in 1548. He did not remain there for long, however, since in 1551 he was summoned to
Goslar and then in 1554 appointed to be a schoolmaster in
Wernigerode. In 1555 he returned to Wittenberg, and in October that year was admitted to the philosophy faculty of the Wittenberger Akademie.
Here he held private lectures, pursued his own studies further and established a private school. Thym was above all an author of school books, grammatical writings, and an author of German and Latin poems. Besides a handbook of the Christian teaching in verse form, he related the
Henry the Lion saga in verse form.
Works
* Zwölff Heuptartikel des Bekendtnis unseres christlichen Glaubens,
* Thedel von Wallmoden, Magdeburg 1558, Straßburg 1559, Wolfenbüttel 1563
* Exempla syntaxeos
Bibliography
*
Walther Killy: ''
Killy Literaturlexikon. Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache (15 volumes. Gütersloh, München: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988-1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, )
* Paul Zimmermann
Georg Thym In:
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.
It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...
(ADB). Vol. 38, Leipzig 1894, S. 234 f.
* Christian Friedrich Kesslin: Nachrichten von Schriftstellern und Künstlern der Grafschaft Wernigerode. Vom Jahre 1074 bis 1855. Wernigerode
. a.185
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1520 births
1560 deaths
People from Zwickau
German poets
University of Wittenberg alumni
German male poets
Academic staff of the University of Wittenberg
German schoolteachers