Matthäus Dresser

Matthäus Dresser, (also: Matteaus, Matthaei; Dressler, Drescher, Dresserus, Dresseri) (24 August 1536 in Erfurt – 5 October 1607 in Leipzig)[1] was a Lutheran German humanist, pedagogue, philosopher, and historian.

Matthäus Dresser
16th century depiction of Dresser
Born24 August 1536
Erfurt, Saxony, Germany
Died18 November 1559
Magdeburg, Thuringia, Germany
OccupationProfessor
Spouse(s)Juliana Sarcerius, Maria Cordes

Education and career

Dresser attended school in Erfurt and Eisleben, and later studied at the University or Erfurt, where he attended lectures by Martin Seidemann.[2] In Erfurt, records of Dresser go back to 1559, where he earned a Masters of Philosophy. In 1560, he learned Biblical Hebrew during his university studies. When the Protestant Council Grammar School of Erfurt began construction in 1561, Dresser participated in the founding of the University, where he became a professor of Greek Literature.[3] Dressner aspired to attend the University of Wittenberg, but was unable to do so due to illness at the time.[4]

In 1575, Dresser became the rector of the Electoral Provincial School of St. Afra school in Meissen. After six years of tenure, he became a professor of Greco-Roman liturgy and history at the University of Leipzig. There, he was appointed dean of the philosophy school, and was the rector of alma mater in 1599. Dresser translated several works of Latin into German, such as Prophyry's Isagoge.[4] He later became the electoral historiographer of Saxony.[5][6][7]

Personal life

Dresser was married twice in his life. His first marriage was to Juliana Sarcerius, daughter of Lutheran theologian and disciple Erasmus Sarcerius. He was, by that relation, brother in law to Zacharias Praetorius. After the death of Juliana, Dresser married Maria Cordes, the daughter of the prepositus at Leipzig University, M. Henricus Cordes.[4] He did not produce progeny in either marriage. Dresser died of Malaria on October 7, 1607, and was buried at the Paulinerkirche.[8]

Selected bibliography
  • Oratio isocratis Rhetoris Atheniensis disertissimi, eleganter disserens de officio Magistratus erga subditos et subditorum erga Magistratur etc., conversa e Graeco in Latinum (1558)
  • Rhetorica, inventionis, dispositionis et elocutionis illustrata et locuplctata quam plurimis exemplis sacris et philosophicis (1570)
  • M. T. Ciceronis de Natura Deorum libri III cum argumentis, oeconomia, et rerum verborumque accur. et artif. enodatione; additae sunt ad finem cujusque libri disputatione etc. (1572)
  • Gymnasmatum linguae graecae libri III orationum, epistolarum et carminum exempla sacra et profana complectentes. (1574)[9]
  • De disciplina nova et veteri tam domestica quam scholastica (1577)[10]
  • Elocutionis rhetoricae doctrina, praeceptis et exemplis cum sacris tum philosophicis exposita et locupletata (1580)[11]
  • Oratio de dialectica Philippi Melanchthonis (1580)[12]
  • Catechismus Parvus D. Martini Lutheri, cum scholis et nonnullis textibus biblicis de festis anni, Item precationibus scholasticis (1581)
  • Oratio de IV monarchiis sive summis imperiis a Daniele propheta expressis (1581)[13]
  • De diebus festis Christianorum, Judaeorum et Ethnicorum liber (1584)[14]
  • Querela de Pontificiis insidiis per Germaniam (1584)[15]
  • De ordine et progressu professionis suac Lipsiensis (1585)
  • Isagoge historica (1586)[16]
  • Orationes Matthaei Dresseri, Tam Rerum varietate et copia quam sermonis puritate et elegantia commendate (1587)[17]
  • Orationes duae de Dialectica Phil. Melanthonis (1588)
  • Narratio de statu Ecclcsiae et Religionis in Persico regno (1589)[18]
  • Confutatio commentitiae opinionis Rob. Bellamini de translatioie Imp. Rom. a Graecis ad Romanos, institutioneque septemvirorum electoralium per Pontif. (1592)[19]
  • De Christiano inclyto et magnanimo duce electore: Oratio funebris habita en academia (1592)[20]
  • Oratio De vita et morte D. Pauli Lutheri Medici (1593)[21]
  • Explicatio ad Rudolphum II. Imp. Rom. historica dicti seu vaticinii cujusdam Lactantii de delendo noraine Romano in terris et transferendo imperio occid. in orientem (1593)[22]
  • Oratio De Bello Turcico: ex rationibus et historiis depromta, et ad acuendos Christianos hoc tempore accommodata (1593)[23]
  • Oratio De cancellarii munere et dignitate tam in regnis et ducatibus, quam in Academia Lipsiensi (1594)[24]
  • Die kleine fürstliche Chronica, durch Kasper Sturm, contin. bis aufs Jahr Chr. 1596 (1596)
  • Sächsisches Chronicon (1596)[1]
  • Historien und Bericht von dem neuerlicher Zeit erfundenen Königreiche China (1597)
  • Martini Lutheri Historia (1598)[25]
  • Gratulatio de recuperata Alba rcgali. Leipzig (1600)
  • Actus solennis commendationis, seu renunciationis Rectoris magnificentissimi in Academia Lipsica (1602)[26]
  • Neu Stammbuch und Beschreibung des uralten königlichen Kur- und fürstlichen Geschlechtes des Hauses Sachsen u.s.w. (1602)
  • Ungnadische Chronica, darinnen der Herren Ungnaden Ankunft und Ausbreitung und ritterliche Thaten verzeichnet werden von 1147 (1601)[27]
  • De praecipuis Germaniae urbibus paene ducentis, Isagoges histoncae Pars V (1606)[28]
  • Orationes in unum eorpus redactae (1606)
  • De discendi Ordine Consilium (1611)[29]

References
  1. Haydn, Joseph (1868). Specimen Pages, Prospectus, & Opinions of Haydn's Dictionary of Dates: Comprehending Remarkable Occurrences, Ancient and Modern, the Foundation, Laws, and Governments of Countries; Their Progress in Arts, Science and Literature, Their Achievements in Arms; and Their Civil, Military, Religious and Philanthropic Institutions, and Particularly of the British Empire. London: E. Moxon. p. 138.
  2. Neues allgemeines Intelligenzblatt für Literatur und Kunst. Leipzig 1808, Sp. 533 (Matthäus Dresser at the Internet Archive).
  3. Müller, Johann August (1789). Versuch einer vollständigern Geschichte der Chursächsischen Fürsten und Landschule zu Meissen Aus Urkunden und glaubwürdigen Nachrichten (in German). Leipzig: Crusius. p. 61.
  4. Historische Commission bei der königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften (1877), "Dresser, Matthäus", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 5, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1. ed.), München/Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 398, retrieved 2023-02-24
  5. "Blättern im Zedler-Lexikon Bd. 7, Seite 742". www.zedler-lexikon.de. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  6. Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb (1750). Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon ... (in German). in Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung. p. 218.
  7. Ersch, Johann Samuel (1818). Allgemeine encyclopädie der wissenschaften und künste in alphabetischer folge von genannten schrifts bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J. S. Ersch und J. G. Gruber . (in German). Leipzig: Leipzig, J. f. Gleditsch. pp. 243–244.
  8. Beste, Wilhelm (1856). Die bedeutendsten Kanzelredner: der älteren lutherschen Kirche von Luther bis zu Spener : in Biographieen und einer Auswahl ihrer Predigten (in German). Leipzig: G. Mayer. pp. 375–376.
  9. Dresser, Matthaeus (1574). Gymnasmatum litteraturae graecae libri tres, orationum, epistolarum et poematum ex autoribus profanis et sacris (etc.) (in Latin). Andreas Schneider.
  10. Dresser, Matthaeus (1577). De Disciplina nova et veteri tam domestica quam scholastica (in Latin). Ex Officina Oporiniana.
  11. Dresser, Matthaus (1580). Elocutionis rhetoricae doctrina, praeceptis et exemplis, cum sacris, tum philosophicis, exposita et locupletata: ut ad intelligendum et formandum orationem conducat. Authore Matthaeo Dressero. -_Lipsiae, 1530 (Imprimebat Ioannes Steinman) (in Latin).
  12. Matthaeus Dresser (1580). Oratio de dialectica Philippi Melanchthonis ¬Matthaei ¬Dresseri ex ludo VIIvirali ad Albim. Bavarian State Library. Vögelin.
  13. Dresser, Matthaeus (1581). Oratio de IV monarchiis sive summis imperiis a Daniele propheta expressis (in Latin). Joh. Beyer.
  14. Matthaeus Dresser (1597). Matthaei Dresseri De Festis Diebvs Christianorvm, Ivdaeorvm, Et Ethnicorum Liber Quo origo, caussa, ritus& vsus earum exponitur (in German). unknown library. Apelius.
  15. Dresser, Matthaeus (1584). Querela de Pontificiis insidiis per Germaniam: item: Carmen de Laniena Antverpiae tentata (in Latin).
  16. Matthaeus Dresser (1602). De politica dignitate & potestate Germanorum Particula (in Russian). unknown library. Lantzenberger.
  17. Dresser, Matthaeus (1587). Orationes Matthaei Dresseri: Tam Rerum Varietate Et copia quam sermonis puritate & elegantia commendatae (in Latin).
  18. Matthaeus Dresser (1589). De Statv Ecclesiae Et Religionis In Regno Persico (in Russian). Bavarian State Library (Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg). Jakob Apel, d.J.
  19. Matthaeus Dresser (1592). Mathaei Dresseri Confutatio commenticiae opinionis Roberti Bellarmini e Soc. Jesu de translatione imperii Romani. unknown library.
  20. Matthaeus Dresser (1592). De Christiano inclyto et magnanimo duce electore Saxoniae oratio funebris (in Latin). unknown library. Lantzenberger.
  21. Matthaeus Dresser (1593). De vita et morte D. Pauli Lutheri Medici Oratio (in Latin). Bavarian State Library. Lantzenberger.
  22. Matthaeus Dresser (1602). Ad Rudolphum II. Imperatorem Rom. ... gratulatio de victa et recuperata Alba Regali (in Latin). unknown library. Apelius.
  23. Matthaeus Dresser (1593). De bello Turcico oratio ¬Matthaei ¬Dresseri ex rationibus et historiis depromta, et ad acuendos Christianos hoc tempore accommodata. Bavarian State Library. Steinmannus.
  24. Matthaeus Dresser (1594). De cancellarii munere et dignitate tam in regnis et ducatibus, quam in academia Lipsiensi oratio Matthaei Dresseri (in Latin). Bavarian State Library (Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg). Lantzenberger.
  25. Matthaeus Dresser (1598). Martini Lutheri historia (in Latin). Austrian National Library. Jac. Apel.
  26. Dresser, Matthaus (1602). Actus solennis commendationis, seu renunciationis rectoris magnificentissimi in academia Lipsica, ... continens Orationem Matthaei Dresseri commendatitiam, & ad eandem magnifici domini protectoris D. Andreae Humelii responsionem: celebratus 15. Cal. Iunij, anno Christi 1602 (in Latin). Michael Lantzenberger excudebat. Impensis Iacobi Apelij.
  27. Matthaeus Dresser (1602). Vngnadische Chronika, darinnen der Herren Vngnaden Ankunft, Auszbreitunge, Reisen ... verzeichnet werden vom Keiser Cunrad III ... biß auff dieses 1601. Jahr etc (in German). Austrian National Library. A. Lamberg.
  28. Oertel, Friedrich Maximilian (1843). Das Münster der Augustiner Chorherren zu St. Afra in Meissen. Eine Säcularschrift, etc (in German). Leipzig. p. 84.
  29. Matthaeus Dresser (1611). De discendi ordine consilium (in Latin). Bavarian State Library. Gubesius.
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