Jacob Micyllus

Jacob Micyllus,^[1] (6 April 1503 – 28 January 1558) was a German Renaissance humanist and teacher, who conducted the city's Latin school in Frankfurt and held a chair at the University of Heidelberg, during times of great cultural stress in Germany.

Micyllus was born Jakob Moltzer in Strasbourg. From 1518 to 1522 he studied in Erfurt, then at the end of 1522 went to Philipp Melanchthon in Wittenberg. From 1524, aged only twenty-one, he directed the city Latin school at Frankfurt, on Melanchthon's recommendation. But he was not at ease with the radical Reformation in Frankfurt from 1526 and found a place as professor in Heidelberg, January 1533. He died in Heidelberg.

Selected works

Varia epigrammata graeca & latina & alia carmina graca, Basel 1538
Sylva variorum carminum
Commentataria in Homerum, Basel 1541
Annotationes in Joh. Bocatii genealogiam Deorum, Basel 1532
Scholia ad Martialis obscuriores aliquot locos
Ratio examinandorum versuum
Calendarium
Carmen elegiacum de ruina arcis Heidelbergensis, quae facta est 1537
Annotationes in Ovidium, & in Lucanum
Arithmetica logistica
Euripidis vita, Basel 1558
De Tragaedia & ejus partibus
Traductio aliquot operum Luciani cum scholiis
Annotationes in Euripidem, Basel 1562
Urbis Francofurdi gratulatio ad Caronum, Leipzig 1530

Notes

^ In Antiquity Micyllus was the poor cobbler of Lucian's Gallus

References

Classen, Johannes. Jakob Micyllus, Rektor zu Frankfurt am Main 1524-1533 und 1537-1547, als Schulmann, Dichter und Gelehrter. Frankfurt am Main 1861
Gerhard Dolinsky. Aus der Geschichtes des Frankfurter Gymnasiums, in: H.-J. Heydorn und K. Ringshausen: Jenseits von Resignation und Illusion - Festschrift zum 450jährigen Bestehen des Lessing-Gymnasiums. Frankfurt am Main 1971
Johann Friedrich Hautz. Jacobus Micyllus Argentoratensis, philologus et poeta, Heidelbergae et Repertinae Universitatis olim decus: commentatio historico-literaria. Heidelbergae: J.C.B. Mohr, 1842.
Johann Classen. Nachträge zu der Biographie des Jakob Micyllus, Frankfurt/M 1861
Georg Ellinger. Jakob Micyllus und Joachim Camerarius. In: Neue Jahrbuch für das klass. Altertum, Geschichte und deutsche Literatur und für Pädagogik Jahrgang 24 (1909), pp. 1 50-173. - Ellinger 2, pp. 28–44
Otto Clemen. Zu Jakob Micyllus In: Neue Heidelberger Jahrbuch N. F. (1941): 1-11
Arthur Henkel. "In Mortem Simii Heidelbergensis". Zu einem Epikediom des Jakob Micyllus In: Festschrift Leonard Forster. Baden-Baden 1982, S. 264-280
Hermann Wiegand. Hodoeporica. Baden-Baden 1984
[Adolf] Brecher (1885), "Micyllus, Jakob Molshem", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 21, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 704–708
Franz Lerner (1994), "Micyllus, Jacob", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 459–460
Walther Killy, ed. Literaturlexikon: Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache (15 Bände). Gütersloh, München: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988-1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7)

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[1] In Antiquity Micyllus was the poor cobbler of Lucian's Gallus

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