Talk:Martin Opitz

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Information on Martin Opitz, such as the name of his father Sebastian Opitz keeps getting willfully and wrongfully removed, thus it is posted here:

Martin Opitz was the son of Sebastian Opitz.

In 1624 Opitz was appointed councilor to Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz (Legnica) and Brieg (Brzeg) in Silesia, and in 1625, as reward for a requiem poem composed on the death of Archduke Charles of Austria, was crowned poet laureate by Emperor Ferdinand II, who a few years later ennobled him under the title "von Boberfeld." He was elected a member of the Fruitbearing Society in 1629, and in 1630 he went to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Hugo Grotius. He settled in 1635 in the Hanseatic city of Danzig in Royal Prussia, where Opitz was acquainted with Reichsgraf (Imperial count} Gerhard Dönhoff, a Danzig native. Dönhoff supported and protected Opitz, who in turn dedicated his translation of the Antigone to him. Dönhoff recommended Opitz to King Władysław IV Vasa of the Poland, who hired him as his historiographer and secretary.

'''Opitz died unexpectedly in Danzig of the plague on August 20, 1639. Gerhard Dönhoff saw to it, that the inheritance material was given to the father Sebastian Opitz, who picked it up personally and sold much of it in Danzig'''.

References (Reprints of Original Opitz Printings)

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 * Martin Opitz Geistliche Poemata 1638, Erich Trunz Barock, Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen 1966