Aeschyli Prometheus 

ETYPWTHE EN BASILEIA POLEI THS GERMANIAS, Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen, Autor: Frank Hieronymus, © Universitätsbibliothek Basel 1992 (Publikation Nr. 15)

• 4.7.-22.8.1992: Unibibliothek Basel
• 28.1 - 6.3.1993: Staatsbibliothek Berlin
• 8.6.- 29.8.1993: Gutenbergmuseum Mainz

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Aeschyli Prometheus, cum interpretatione Mathiae Garbitii Illyrici, Graecae linguae & Moralis philosophiae professoris ordinarij in Academia Tubingensi ... Basel: Johannes Oporin Februar 1558.8⁰

Zweiter griechischer Einzeldruck der Prometheus und damit einer Tragödie des Aeschylus überhaupt (nach Paris 1548), erster Einzeldruck einer Übersetzung (nach der Gesamtübersetzung ebenfalls bei Oporin 1555). Im selben Monat wie die Ausgabe der Werke und Tage Hesiods mit eigener Übersetzung und Scholien erscheint im letzten Lebensjahr des Tübinger Gräzisten Matthias Garbitius (1505-1559) seine Ausgabe mit der ersten Übersetzung und Scholien des heute in seiner Echtheit angezweifelten Prometheus des Aeschylus, des in der Frühzeit beliebtesten der unter seinem Namen überlieferten Dramen. In seiner 34 seitigen Widmung an den Nürnberger Patrizier und Staatsmann, Hauptbegründer von Gymnasium und Staatsbibliothek, Hieronymus Bomgartner (Baumgartner), dem er von Jugend an verpflichtet sei, weist Garbitius darauf hin, dass er, wie den Hesiod, auch den Prometheus nur auf Drängen seines Kollegen Toxites (Michael Schütz) drucken lasse. Es folgen eine Geschichte des Prometheus-Stoffes, ein Lobpreis des Aeschylus, dem er den ersten Rang unter den drei Tragikern anweist, sowie inhaltliche und ethische Analysen der Tragödie. Ein griechisches Epigramm des Garbitius ziert die Titelseite.
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Prometheus in Basel (MIRRORS)

am 13.Okt. nach prmths2001 verschoben:
• Prometheus Titelblatt BASILEAE per Ioannem Opurinum
• Prometheus Vorrede mit Widmung an Toxites
• Scholion Latein/Griechisch)
• Zwei Verse mit lateinischer Übersetzung und Scholion
• Prometheus (Index)

Matthias Garbitius

1520 Matthias Flacius, Lutheran theologian and church historian, was born at Labin, Istria (Illyria) (d. 1575). He studied in Venice under Baptista Egnatius, a humanist. Baldo Lupetino, a relative, pointed him to Martin Luther. He went to Augsburg in 1539, then Basel. He also spent some time at Tübingen, where he lived with Matthias Garbitius, professor of Greek. He came to Wittenberg and into close contact with Philipp Melanchthon and Luther in 1541. He became a professor of Hebrew there in 1544. After the Augsburg Interim he wrote three tracts attacking the emperor and and criticizing the Interim. After the Leipzig Interim he again published an attack on the agreement. He left Wittenberg for Magdeburg in 1549, and the Interimistic or Adiaphoristic Controversy began in earnest. He held that the interim introduced not only ceremonial but also doctrinal errors. At Magdeburg he began _Ecclesiastica historia_ (the _Magdeburg Centuries_). He was also involved in other controversies that grew out of the Interimistic controversy. He contended that good works are not necessary to salvation and urged that though the essential, eternal righteousness of Christ is not idle in redemption, it is not the righteousness that justifies. While at Magdeburg he took part in attempts to reconcile warring parties within Lutheranism. He became a professor at Jena in 1557 and sharply criticized the Frankfurt Recess of 1558. At his prompting Duke John Frederick II had the _Konfutationsbuch_ (a polemical doctrinal statement upholding his views) drafted in 1558-1559. He next involved himself in the Synergistic Controversy in 1559 and opposed Strigel's views on free will in the Weimar Disputation 1560. The unevangelical methods of the Flacian Superintendent Balthasar Winter at Jena and Flacius's uncharitable attitude led to his dismissal at Jena in 1561. He went to Regensburg in 1562, where he became involved in further controversies and worked on the _Magdeburg Centuries_ and _Clavis scripturae_. Regensburg withdrew asylum for Flacius in 1566, so with five others he was called to Antwerp to organize church life. There he opposed a union formula with the Reformed. On the arrival of the Duke of Alba, Flacius went to Frankfurt in 1567, then Strasbourg. He refused to sign Jakob Andreae's articles for the proposed union of the German churches. He was forced to leave Strasbourg in 1573 and spent his last years in a former convent at Frankfurt administered as a haven of refuge by Protestant prioress Katharina von Meerfeld.
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• Matthias Garbitius (geboren in Labin in Istrien, deshalb Illyricus) war Schüler Luthers und Freund Melanchtons