- Jakob Balde
Jakob Balde (
January 4 1604 –August 9 1668 ), a GermanLatinist , was born atEnsisheim inAlsace .Driven from
Alsace by the marauding bands ofCount Mansfeld , he fled toIngolstadt where he began to study law. A love disappointment, however, turned his thoughts to the church, and in 1624 he entered theSociety of Jesus . Continuing his study of the humanities, he became in 1628 professor ofrhetoric atInnsbruck , and in 1635 at Ingolstadt, whither he had been transferred by his superiors in order to studytheology . In 1633 he was ordained a priest.His lectures and poems had now made him famous, and he was summoned to
Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the electorMaximilian I . He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live atLandshut and afterwards atAmberg . In 1654 he was transferred to Neuburg on the Danube, as court preacher and confessor to thecount palatine . He remained at Neuburg for the rest of his life.A collected edition of Balde's works in 4 vols was published at
Cologne in 1650; a more complete edition in 8 vols at Munich, 1729; also a good selection by L. Spach (Paris andStrasbourg , 1871). An edition of his Latin lyrics appeared at Regensburg in 1884. There are translations into German of some of his odes, by J. Schrott and M. Schleich (Munich , 1870). See G. Westermayer, "Jacobus Balde, sein Leben und seine Werke" (1868); J. Bach, "Jakob Balde" (Freiburg , 1904).External links
* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camautor/balde.html Works of Jakob Balde online (e.g. the Cologne edition)] - project [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenahtdocs/camena.html Camena]
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02218a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article]
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