OPITIUS Martin, Geistliche Poemata.

Geistliche Poemata.

Von ihm selbst zusammen gelesen / verbessert und absonderlich herauss gegeben. Breslau (1690). Verlegst Jesaias Fellgibel. (16 x 10 cm), 324, cover broch. (later).
(Estr. T. 23, this edition does not note). Traces of browning and dampstaining. good condition. Ded. to Sybil Margrethe, princess of Legnica and Brest. Poems by Martin Opitz (1597-1639), Silesian poet. 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 among his friends was the famous Piotr Kruger, a Danzig astronomer. The work offered here, among others: "Prosodia Germanica" (1st ed.: 1624) is his life's work.