biography
pronunciation:
[bahlduh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1604–68)
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| biography:
| Writer, theologian, and scholar, born in Ensisheim, Alsace. His career included periods as court preacher which he combined with the post of royal tutor in Munich (1638–1646). His neo-Latin works, modelled on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, are widely thought to be more significant for Baroque literature than his German ones, apart perhaps from Agathyrsus und Ehrenpreis Mariae (1647). The poetry volumes Lyricorum libri IV Epodon liber I and Silvae lyricae (1643) embrace counter-Reformation and patriotic themes, and celebrate friends and patrons. His Latin Jesuit play Jephtias (1637) was published in 1654, and his collected works Opera poetica omnia appeared in 1729. His writing later influenced Gryphius and Herder. |
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