Joannes Burmeister (1576–1638) was a Neo-Latin poet laureate of the German

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, famed for his Christian adaptations of the classical Roman poets

Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and ...

and Plautus.

Life

He was born in Lüneburg and was related to the musical theorist

Joachim Burmeister Joachim Burmeister (1564 in Lüneburg – 5 May 1629 in Rostock) was a north German composer and music theorist. He was the oldest of five children born to a beadworker and townsman of Lüneburg. His brother Anton (d. 1634) became the cantor of St ...

. After studying theology at Rostock University, in July 1600 he was crowned an Imperial Poet Laureate of the Holy Roman Empire. He spent the next 25 years as pastor of the village of

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. During that time he composed nearly all his works, some of which enjoyed the patronage of the Estorff family. In 1635 he became Provost of Uelzen, where three years later he died and was buried.

Major works

# ''Martialis Renati. Parodiarum Sacrarum M. Val.

is Epigrammata'' (Goslar and Lueneburg: Hans Stern and Johann Vogt, 1612). 3 volumes. # '' Saturnaliorum Christianorum Libri septem'' (Goslar, Johann Vogt, 1619). # ''M. A. Plauti Renati sive Sacri Mater-Virgo, comoedia prima ex Amphitruone ad Admirandum Conceptionis et Incarnationis Filii Dei Misterium inversa'' (Lüneburg, Andreas Michaelis, 1621). # ''M. A. Plauti renati sive sacri Aulularia, comoedia tertia ex fabula ethnica ad biblicam de Achanis furto historiam inversa'' (Hamburg, Joannes Mose, 1629).

References

*Fontaine, Michael. 2015
''Joannes Burmeister: Aulularia and Other Inversions of Plautus''
Leuven: Leuven University Press. {{DEFAULTSORT:Burmeister, Joannes 1576 births 1638 deaths People from Lüneburg German poets Writers from Lower Saxony Baroque writers