Editing Jakob Balde

{{Short description|German poet (1604–1668)}}
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'''Jakob Balde''' (January 4, 1604 – August 9, 1668) was a German poet who wrote primarily in [[Neo-Latin]] rather than in his native [[German language]], was born at [[Ensisheim]] in [[Alsace]].

== Biography ==

Driven from [[Alsace]] by the marauding bands of [[Count Mansfeld]], he fled to [[Ingolstadt]] where he began to study law. A love disappointment, however, turned his thoughts to the church, and in 1624 he entered the [[Society of Jesus]]. Continuing his study of the humanities, he became in 1628 professor of [[rhetoric]] at [[Innsbruck]], and in 1635 at Ingolstadt, whither he had been transferred by his superiors in order to study [[theology]]. 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 elector [[Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria|Maximilian I]]. He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at [[Landshut]] and afterwards at [[Amberg]]. In 1654 he was transferred to [[Neuburg an der Donau|Neuburg on the Danube]], as court preacher and confessor to the [[count 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 1660; a more complete edition in 8 vols at Munich, 1729; also a good selection by L. Spach ([[Paris]] and [[Strasbourg]], 1871). An edition of his Latin lyrics was edited by Benno Müller in 1844 in Munich and another edition also appeared at Regensburg in 1884. There are translations into German of some of his odes by [[Johann Gottfried Herder]] (1795), his satires by Johannes Neubig ([[Munich]], 1833) and J. Schrott and M. Schleich ([[Munich]], 1870). See G. Westermayer, ''Jacobus Balde, sein Leben und seine Werke'' (1868); J. Bach, ''Jakob Balde'' ([[Freiburg]], 1904). Various odes have been translated into English by Karl Maurer.

==Works==
[[File:Titel en armillarium als titelvignet Titelpagina voor Jacobus Balde, Lyricorum libri IV, Keulen 1645 Lyricorum (titel op object), RP-P-OB-50.006.jpg|thumb|Jacob Balde, ''Lyricorum libri IV'', Lowijs Elzevier (III), Jost Kalckhoven, Cologne, 1645.]]

* {{cite book |title=Epithalamion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhZSAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=Formis Cornelii Leysserii Electoralis Typographi et Bibliopolae|language=la|date=1635|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=De vanitate mundi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYtQAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=Formis Cornelii Leysserii Electoralis Typographi et Bibliopolae|language=la|date=1636|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Batrachomyomachia Homeri, tuba Romana cantata, et aevo nostro accommodata|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4BEAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Ingolstadt|via=Gregor Hänlin|language=la|date=1637|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Agathyrsus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9d1IAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=typis Corn. Leyserii|language=la|date=1638|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Iacobi Balde è Societate Iesv Lyricorvm Lib. IV.: Epodon Lib. Vnus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7FXAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=typis Corn. Leyserii|language=la|date=1643|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Iacobi Balde è Societate Jesv Sylvarum Libri VII.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYhEAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=typis Corn. Leyserii|language=la|date=1643|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Agathyrsus teutsch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1aeHWKC2mmAC|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=München|via=bey Lucas Straub|language=de|date=1647|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Medicinae Gloria Per Satyras XXII. Asserta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jRYAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=Wagner|language=la|date=1651|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Iephtias: Tragoedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1pEAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Ambergae|via=Haugenhofer|language=la|date=1654|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Satyra contra abusum Tabaci ad Aemilianum Aloysium Guevarram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XANXAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=Wagnerus|language=la|date=1657|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Vultuosæ torvitatis encomium. In gratiam philosophorum, ac poetarum explicatum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNxoAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=Sumptibus I. Wagneri|language=la|date=1658|access-date=25 May 2019}}
* {{cite book |title=Urania victrix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVtEAAAAcAAJ|last=Balde|first=Jakob|location=Monachii|via=Typis J.W. Scheli|language=la|date=1663|access-date=25 May 2019}}

==References==
* {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Balde, Jakob}}

==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.udallasclassics.org/maurer_files/Balde.pdf Odes of Jakob Balde] 
* {{CathEncy|wstitle=Jacob Balde}}
* {{treccani|jakob-balde|Jakob Balde|Franco Bruno Averardi|1930}}

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[[Category:1604 births]]
[[Category:1668 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Haut-Rhin]]
[[Category:17th-century German Jesuits]]
[[Category:Alsatian-German people]]
[[Category:University of Ingolstadt alumni]]
[[Category:Neo-Latin poets]]
[[Category:17th-century writers in Latin]]