- Georg Thym
Georg Thym (c.1520,
Zwickau -21 December 1560 ,Wittenberg ) was a German teacher, poet and writer.Life
Thym attended school in his home town and then, from 1540, attended the
University of Wittenberg , where he met (among others)Martin Luther andPhilipp Melanchthon , who remained his lifelong friends. After graduating from his "Grundstudium", in 1544 Thym took up a post as under-teacher inMagdeburg , where he was a colleague ofMartin Agricola .He soon moved to a school in
Zerbst and - after acquiring his master's degree in Wittenberg - became rector of the school in his hometown in 1548. He did not remain there for long, however, since in 1551 he was summoned to Goslar and then in1554 appointed to be a schoolmaster inWernigerode . In 1555 he returned to Wittenberg, and in October that year was admitted to the philosophy faculty of the Wittenberger Akademie.Here he held private lectures, pursued his own studies further and established a private school. Thym was above all an author of school books, grammatical writings, and an author of German and Latin poems. Besides a handbook of the Christian teaching in verse form, he related the
Henry the Lion saga in verse form.Works
* Zwölff Heuptartikel des Bekendtnis unseres christlichen Glaubens,
* Thedel von Wallmoden, Magdeburg 1558, Straßburg 1559, Wolfenbüttel 1563
* Exempla syntaxeosBibliography
* Walther Killy: Literaturlexikon. Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache (15 Bände). Gütersloh, München: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988-1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7)
* Paul Zimmermann: [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008396/images/index.html?seite=236 Georg Thym] . In:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Bd. 38, Leipzig 1894, S. 234 f.ource
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