Jakob Balde
Deceased Person
1604 – 1668
Who was Jakob Balde?
Jakob Balde, a German Latinist, was born at Ensisheim in Alsace.
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. He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and afterwards at Amberg. In 1654 he was transferred to 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 1650; a more complete edition in 8 vols at Munich, 1729; also a good selection by L. Spach. An edition of his Latin lyrics appeared at Regensburg in 1884.
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- Born
- Jan 4, 1604
Ensisheim - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Aug 9, 1668
Neuburg an der Donau
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on July 23, 2013
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