Copper engraving of Frenzel from 1585

Salomon Frenzel von Friedenthal (1560/64–1600) was a Silesian writer.

Frenzel (Frencelius) was born in Breslau (Wrocław). His date of birth is variously given as 1560, 1561 or 1564.[1] His father, also Salomon Frenzel, was a Protestant pastor.[1][2] The younger Frenzel studied at the universities of Wittenberg and Strasbourg.[2] He was laureated for his poetry in March 1584 by the Count Palatine Hartmann Hartmanni, seemingly at Strasbourg.[1] In 1589, he was ennobled by the Emperor Rudolf II. He spent the next five years in the imperial capital of Prague. In 1594, he took up a chair in ethics at the University of Helmstedt. In 1599, he was named rector of the cathedral school of Riga.[1][2] He died in Riga within a year.[3]

Frenzel was a prolific Neo-Latin writer of poems, panegyrics and epigrams. Three volumes of his epigrams were published in his lifetime, the first at Prague in 1588, the second at Wittenberg in 1593 and the third at Helmstedt in 1599.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Flood 2006, vol. 2, pp. 599–602.
  2. 1 2 3 Leitmeir 2016, p. 368.
  3. ↑ See Leitmeir 2016, p. 368, esp. footnote 5. Flood 2019, p. 143, gives his date of death as 18 June 1605.
  4. ↑ Leitmeir 2016, pp. 368–369.

Bibliography

  • Flood, John L. (2006). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Vol. 1–4. Walter de Gruyter.
  • Flood, John L. (2019). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Vol. 5: Supplement. Walter de Gruyter.
  • Leitmeir, Christian Thomas (2016). "Words for Music, Words about Music: Salomon Frenzel von Friedenthal's Epigrams as Source for Music History". In Paweł Gancarczyk (ed.). Ars Musica and Its Contexts in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Warsaw. pp. 367–394.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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