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Hermann Kirchner's Coriolanus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Jacob N. Beam
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Hermann Kirchner, son of Joachim Kirchner, was born November 11, 1562 at Hersfeld in Hessen. As a youth he was sent to Copenhagen to live with his brother, and there in the Ducal Library he began his higher studies. Thence he went to Rostock, and in 1587 to Marburg, supplied with recommendations from Chrytaeus, the historian, to the poet and dramatist, Aegidius Hunnius, who was until 1592 Professor of Theology in Marburg.

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PMLA , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , 1918 , pp. 269 - 301
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1918

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References

1 For Kirchner see (1) Joh. Kessler, Ehrengedachtnüss und Christliche Leichpredigt bey dem . . . Begräbnüss . . . Hermanni Kirchneri . . . Erfurt, 1620; (2) Joh. Petri Lotichii Bibliothecae Poeticae pars iii, Francof., 1625–1628, pp. 197–201; (3) Wilhelmus Dilichius, Urbs et Academia Marpurgensis (ms. in the Landesbibliothek in Cassel) ; (4) D. Paulus Freherus, Theatrum Clariorum Virorum ○. Noribergae, 1688; (5) Strieder, Grundlage zu einer Hessischen Gelehrten und Schriftsteller Geschichte, iii, Cassel, 1787. Some account of Coriolanus (1591) and a résumé of its contents have been given by Theodor Odinga in the Vierteljahrschrift für Literaturgeschichte, vol. iv.

2 J. C. Greisthirt, Historia Schmalcaldica, in the Zeitschrift des Vereins f. henneberg. Geschichte und Landeskunde, 1881, p. 114.

3 Carmina, votiva et gratulatoria: in honorem Quattuor Virorum ac Juvenum Excellentis Doctrinae et virtutis Christophori Pauli Hassi, Hieronymi Treutleri Silesii, Theodori Akolck Westphali, et Petri Hermanni Nigidii Marpurgensis, Cum in utroque jure Doctorum Insignia illis conferrentur a celeberrimo Jureconsulto Nicilao Vigelio, in Academia Marpurgensi, 29. Januarii, Anno 1590. Scripta ab amicis. Marpurgi, typis Pauli Egenolphi, 1590.

4 D. F. Strauss, Lehen und Schriften der Dichters und Philologen Nicodemus Frischlin, Frankf., 1855, p. 444.

5 Goedeke, ii, 147, 169a.

6 In Hunnius' Orat. Fun. de vita et morte Dav. Lucani, Marburg, 1590, there is a preface, a Naenia by Kirchner, and at the end a Parentatio Eidem . . . ab Hermanno Kirchnero, Musae et Astreae Studioso.

7 In the Elegia de vita et morte illustrissimi ○. . . . Hedwigis ○.

8 J. J. Wynkelmann, Gründliche und wahrhaftige Beschreibung der Furstentümer Hessen und Hersfeld, 1697–1754.

9 Legatus, ii, 4.

10 Orationes, 1599, xvii.

11 Orationes, 1599, xviii.

12 Orationes, 1599, Preface.

13 In salutare Lavacrum Illustrissimae Puellae, Illustr. . . . Mauritii . . . Filiolae Elizabethae, Marburg, 1596.

14 Superioris Aevi, imperatorum, regum, electorum, ducum, ac Principum, Heroum, Curricula: Orationibus ac elogiis clariss. virorum comprehensa. Studio Herm. Kirchneri . . . collecta atque edita, Volumine primo. Marpurgi mdcix.

15 Hermanni Kirchneri J. U. D. Orat. Ac. P. O. Caesarei Historiarum et Antiquit. Professoris in illustri Academia Cattum Legatus. Cunctis tum in Jurisprudentiae politicarumque artium studiis, tum in reip. administratione versamtibus lectu scitus, et scitu necessarius. Cum Gratia et Privilegio Caes. Majes. Lichae, mdciii. Enlarged editions in 1610 and 1614.

Hermanmi Kirchneri D. Respublica. Methodicae Disputationis acie tum veterum recentiorum Politicorum opinionibus candide et probe excussis, Marburg, mdcviii. Later editions, 1609, 1614, 1634.

Hermanni Kirchneri, J. U. Doctris, Morvillerius : De officio et dignitate Cancellarii, libris quattuor expositus, Marburg, mdcxiii. Second edition, 1620.

16 CORIOLA | NUS TRAGICO- | COMICA | AUCTORE | HERM. KIRCHNE | RO. I. V. DOCT: ORATO | RE ET POETA CAES. C. PRO | fess. humaniorum literarum in Acad. Marpurgensi. | Auctoris impendio | Typis Caspari Schefferi | Marpurgi excusa, mdxcix.

17 For the purposes of this study I have made use of the North translation of Plutarch's Life of Cavas Martius Coriolanus as printed and divided into sections in the Arden-Shakespeare edition of Coriolanus, and Dionysii Halicarnassensis Antiquitatum Romanorum quae supersunt Graece et Latine ex recensione A. Kiessling et Victoria Prou, Parisiis, mdccclxxxvi.

19 Germania, vol. xxxvii, p. 203.

20 . . . Comico stilo Coriolani historiam depingere et exornare coepi.

21 See p. 277.

22 M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, London, 1910, p. 501.

23 Vorlesungen über Shakespeare, 1877, p. 476.

24 An error of Kreyssig, for the conditions, while not mentioned by Shakespeare as such, are yet referred to indirectly (in v, i, 67–69; v, ii, 182; v, ii, 13) though the implication is that they are such that the Romans can not accept them.

25 viii, 21; viii, 35; viii, 38.

26 Shakespeare Jahrbuch, xlii, p. 130.