Johann Major
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Johann Major (2 January 1533 – 6 March 1600) was a German Protestant theologian, humanist and poet.
Life[]
Major was born in Sankt Joachimsthal in the Kingdom of Bohemia. He matriculated in 1549 at the University of Wittenberg, and died in Zerbst.
Bibliography[]
- Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Allgemeines Gelehrtenlexikon. Band 3, 1751, Sp. 56
- Heinz Kathe: Die Wittenberger Philosophische Fakultät 1501–1817. Böhlau, Köln 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4
- Walter Friedensburg: Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
- Irene Dingel, Günther Wartenberg: Die Theologische Fakultät Wittenberg 1502 bis 1602. Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-374-02019-4
- Ulrike Ludwig: Die ehemalige Canzley und Probstey in Wittenberg. Herausgegeben vom Gesundheits- und Tagungszentrum, Wittenberg 2005
- G. Frank: Johann Major der Wittenberger Poet. 1863
- Fritz Roth: Restlose Auswertungen von Leichenpredigten und Personalschriften für genealogische und kulturhistorische Zwecke. Band 5, R 4479
- Paul Tschackert (1884), "Major, Johann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 20, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 111
- "Entry". Zedlers Universallexikon. 19. p. 336.
- Rudolf Wolkan: Böhmens Antheil an der deutschen Litteratur des XVI. Jahrhunderts. K.u.K. Hofbuchdruckerei A. Haase, Prag 1894, S. 136
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- 1533 births
- 1600 deaths
- People from Jáchymov
- German Bohemian people
- People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
- 16th-century German Protestant theologians
- Philippists
- German male non-fiction writers
- German poets
- German male poets
- 16th-century German writers
- 16th-century male writers
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