- Friedrich Dedekind
Friedrich Dedekind (1524—1598) was a German humanist,
theologian , andbookseller .Born in
Neustadt am Rübenberge , he was educated at the universities of Marburg (1543) and Wittenberg, where he studiedtheology . At Wittenberg, his talents were recognized byPhilipp Melanchthon . As "magister", he became in 1575 a minister and inspector of churches inLüneburg .He wrote plays and in later years became involved in mediating theological disputes.
He died on
February 27 ,1598 at Lüneburg.Dedekind's "Grobianus"
Dedekind was the author of "Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres" (
Cologne , 1558). This work had first been published in 1549 as "Grobianus", but it appeared with additions known as "Grobiana" in 1554.A poem in
Latin elegiac verse, it was first published in two books in 1549, and revised form and enlarged to three books in 1552. Dedekind's work had an immense popularity across ContinentalEurope .The work describes the fictional
Saint Grobian as a counselor who teaches men on how to avoid bad manners,gluttony , anddrunkenness .Dedekind's work appeared in
England in 1605 as "The Schoole of Slovenrie: Or, Cato turnd wrong side outward", published by one "R.F.". The "Schoole" was imagined as a place where one was instructed to use one's greasyfinger s to grab at the nicest portions of any dish and snatch food belonging to fellow diners. Holding back the desire tourinate ,fart , andvomit is taught to be bad for one's health; thus, one has to indulge freely in all three activities.The work also inspired Thomas Dekker's "The Guls Horne-Booke" (1609).
Plays
* "Der christliche Ritter" ("The Christian
Knight ") (1576)
* "Papista conversus" (1596)External links
*en icon [http://www.polybiblio.com/jrwindle/1487.html Polybiblio: Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres]
*en icon [http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/dek/intro.html Gull’s Hornbook]
*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/d/dedekind_f.shtml Friedrich Dedekind]
* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camena/dede1/te01.html Facsimile des "Grobianus"]
*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/d/dedekind_f.shtml Biographischer Artikel zu Friedrich Dedekind im BBKL]
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