Jacob Micyllus,In Antiquity Micyllus was the poor cobbler of

Lucian Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore ...

's ''Gallus'' (6 April 1503 – 28 January 1558) was a German

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and teacher, who conducted the city's Latin school in

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and held a chair at the

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, during times of great cultural stress in Germany. Micyllus was born Jakob Moltzer in

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. From 1518 to 1522 he studied in

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, then at the end of 1522 went to

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in Wittenberg. From 1524, aged only twenty-one, he directed the city Latin school at Frankfurt, on Melanchthon's recommendation. But he was not at ease with the radical

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in Frankfurt from 1526 and found a place as professor in Heidelberg, January 1533. He died in

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Selected works

* ''Varia epigrammata graeca & latina & alia carmina graca,'' Basel 1538 * ''Sylva variorum carminum'' * ''Commentataria in Homerum,'' Basel 1541 * ''Annotationes in Joh. Bocatii genealogiam Deorum,'' Basel 1532 * ''Scholia ad Martialis obscuriores aliquot locos'' * ''Ratio examinandorum versuum'' * ''Calendarium'' * ''Carmen elegiacum de ruina arcis Heidelbergensis, quae facta est 1537'' * ''Annotationes in Ovidium, & in Lucanum'' * ''Arithmetica logistica'' * ''Euripidis vita,'' Basel 1558 * ''De Tragaedia & ejus partibus'' * ''Traductio aliquot operum Luciani cum scholiis'' * ''Annotationes in Euripidem,'' Basel 1562 * ''Urbis Francofurdi gratulatio ad Caronum,'' Leipzig 1530

Notes

References

* Classen, Johannes. ''Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524-1533 und 1537-1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter''. Frankfurt am Main 1861 * Gerhard Dolinsky. ''Aus der Geschichtes des Frankfurter Gymnasiums'', in: H.-J. Heydorn und K. Ringshausen: ''Jenseits von Resignation und Illusion - Festschrift zum 450jährigen Bestehen des Lessing-Gymnasiums''. Frankfurt am Main 1971 * Johann Friedrich Hautz
Jacobus Micyllus Argentoratensis, philologus et poeta, Heidelbergae et Repertinae Universitatis olim decus: commentatio historico-literaria.
Heidelbergae: J.C.B. Mohr, 1842. * Johann Classen. Nachträge zu der Biographie des Jakob Micyllus, Frankfurt/M 1861 * Georg Ellinger. Jakob Micyllus und Joachim Camerarius. In: ''Neue Jahrbuch für das klass. Altertum, Geschichte und deutsche Literatur und für Pädagogik Jahrgang'' 24 (1909), pp. 1 50-173. - Ellinger 2, pp. 28–44 * Otto Clemen. Zu Jakob Micyllus In: ''Neue Heidelberger Jahrbuch N. F.'' (1941): 1-11 * Arthur Henkel. "In Mortem Simii Heidelbergensis". Zu einem Epikediom des Jakob Micyllus In: Festschrift

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. Baden-Baden 1982, S. 264-280 * Hermann Wiegand. ''Hodoeporica.'' Baden-Baden 1984 * * *

Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

, ed. ''Literaturlexikon: Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache'' (15 Bände). Gütersloh, München: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988-1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, )

External links

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Johann Classen: Jakob Micyllus …, als Schulmann, Dichter u. Gelehrter. Frankfurt/M 1859

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