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Aegidius Albertinus (* 1560 in Deventer, the Netherlands; † March 9 1620 in Munich) was an influential writer and translator of the Counter-Reformation.

Life
Albertinus comes from the Netherlands, however neither the date of his birth nor his career is documented. Only the extensive language skills of this man, who arrived at the Munich court in 1593 at the age of thirty-three as a man made in Spain, indicate long-term studies abroad. As early as 1597 he was allowed to call himself the secretary of the court council, and from 1601 he also took over the position of duke Maximilian's court library.

Work
His enormous oeuvre comprises 52 works. His writings, mainly published between 1594 and 1618 and even reissued until the 18th century, are mainly translations, adaptations or compilations from Latin, Italian, French, but mainly Spanish texts, including nine works by Antonio de Guevara alone. His original German style is more reminiscent of authors from the previous century than contemporary poets. He represents the concerns of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and supports the witch hunts. In his more independent works, including the literary criticism of Lucifer's Kingdom and Seelengejäidt, He combines anecdotes and curiosities from natural, world or salvation history to allegorical statements or uses the encyclopedic orders of medieval sums and specula. His most significant contribution to the development of German literature is without a doubt the translation of the picaresque novel writtenby Mateo Alemán, La vida del Pícaro Guzmán de Alfarache (1599). Thetranslation, published in1615 under the title Der Landstörtzer Gusman von Alfarche, has been shown to influence many German baroque poets, including Abraham a Sancta Clara , Johann Beer , Grimmelshausen , Moscherosch , Christian Reuter and Daniel Speer. In his translation of the Spanish picaresque novel, Aegidius Albertinus also commented on the hygienic conditions in the hospitals of his time and described their desolate condition in aptly flowery terms.

Works (selection)

 * Lucifers Königreich und Seelengejaidt : oder Narrenhatz : in 8 Theil abgetheilt. - Augspurg : N. Hainrich / Aperger, 1617. Digitalisierte Ausgabe der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
 * Christi Königreich und Seelengejaidt, hrsg. Rainulf A. Stelzmann. Bern 1983
 * De Conviviis...Von Gastereyen, hrsg. Herbert Walz. Bern 1983
 * Hirnschleiffer, hrsg. Lawrence Stilo Larsen. Stuttgart 1977
 * Institutiones vitae aulicae oder Hofschul, hrsg. Erika Alma Metzger. Bern 1978
 * Der Landstörtzer Gusman von Alfarache, Henricus, München 1615; hrsg. Jürgen Mayer. Hildesheim 1975
 * Lucifers Königreich und Seelengejaidt, hrsg. Rochus von Liliencron. Berlin 1884
 * Verachtung des Hoflebens und Lob des Landlebens, hrsg. Christoph Schweitzer. Bern 1987
 * Der Welt Thurnierplatz. Leipzig 1975
 * Der Welt Tummel- und Schaw-Platz…. Krüger, Augsburg u. a. 1612 und öfter (Übersetzung des Reductorium morale des Petrus Berchorius)

Literature (selection)

 * Tilmann Altenberg: Aegidius Albertinus, Der Landstörtzer Gusman von Alfarche. In: La novela picaresca: Concepto genérico y evolución del género (siglos XVI y XVII). Eds. Klaus Meyer-Minnemann & Sabine Schlickers. Universidad de Navarra / Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2008, S. 263–307.
 * Werner Beck: Die Anfänge des deutschen Schelmenromans. Zürich 1957
 * Anne Dreesbach: Aegidius Albertinus. In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter (Hrsg.): Monachia. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München 2005, S. 57, ISBN 3-88645-156-9,
 * Guillaume van Gemert: Die Werke des Aegidius Albertinus. Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 90-302-1351-5.
 * Friedrich Prinz: Sie nehmen den Armen das Brot. München 1985.
 * Herbert Walz: Der Moralist im Dienste des Hofes. Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1984, ISBN 3-8204-7995-3
 * Wolfgang U. Eckart: Medizinkritik in einigen Romanen der Barockzeit - Albertinus, Grimmelshausen, Lesage, Ettner, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart und Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (Hrsg.): Heilberufe und Kranke im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Die Quellen- und Forschungssituation, Münstersche Beiträge zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin Nr. 18, Burgverlag Tecklenburg 1982, zu Aegidius Albertinus S. 52–56, ISBN 3-922506-03-8

Work and bibliography

 * Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Aegidius Albertinus (1560-1620). In: Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock, Bd. 1. Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1990, S. 191–238. ISBN 3-7772-9013-0

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Category:German-language literature Category:17th-century literature Category:Baroque literature Category:Translators from French Category:Translators from Italian Category:Translators from Latin Category:Translators from Spanish Category:Translators to German Category:Librarians Category:Picaresque novels Category:Dutch people Category:1560 births Category:1620 deaths Category:Men