(OPITIUS Martin), Des berühmten Schlesiers Martin Opitz von Boberfeld / Bolesl. Opera Geist= und weltlicher Gedichte /.

Des berühmten Schlesiers Martin Opitz von Boberfeld / Bolesl. Opera Geist= und weltlicher Gedichte /.

nebst beigefügten vielen anderen Tractaten sowohl deutsch als lateinisch / mit Fleiss zusammen gebracht und von vielen Druckfehlern befreyet. Jetzo zum siebenden mhl gedruckt. (Bd. 1 von 4; Volume 1 of 4). Breslau 1689, VerlegtesJesaias Fellgibel. (17 x 10 cm), k. [37], p. 542, frontispiece in copperplate typeset, bound in period psk.
(Estr. does not note). Traces of unpaginated browning, title page in red and black. Binding with abrasions, cracked at spine. Good condition. Contains poetry and historical treatises in German and Latin. Opitz Martin (1597-1639), German poet associated with Silesia. Co-founder of modern German poetry, defender of the purity of the German language; court historiographer of King Wladyslaw IV Vasa and his secretary. He was born in Boleslawiec in Silesia. For German poetry he played a role as great as that of Jan Kochanowski earlier in Poland. He was closely connected with the traditions of Polish Protestantism, with a Calvinist and Arian atmosphere. It is worth mentioning that his circle of friends included the famous Piotr Kruger of Danzig, an astronomer.