Michael Kongehl (19 March 1646 – 1 November 1710) was a German baroque poet.

Life

Kongehl was born in Kreuzburg (now Slavskoye,

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) to the brewer Michael Kongehl and his wife Barbara Marquart. He visited the school in Kreuzburg and

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and started to study

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divinity at the

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in 1661. Afterwards Kongehl travelled to

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and

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, where he lived for 3 years. Here Kongehl was "crowned" as a poet and named "''prutenio''" and was a member of the association of poets ''Pegnesischer Blumenorden''. He returned to Königsberg and applied for the succession of

Simon Dach Simon Dach (29 July 1605 – 15 April 1659) was a German lyrical poet and hymnwriter, born in Memel, Duchy of Prussia (now Klaipėda in Lithuania). Early life Although brought up in humble circumstances (his father was a poorly paid court int ...

as a professor of poetry at the University of Königsberg, but without success. Kongehl worked as a municipal secretary of

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, became a councilman in 1696 and Mayor of Kneiphof. He died throughout a time of epidemic plague in Königsberg.

Works

Kongehl wrote several popular religious chants like *So bist du nun zugegen, du Heiland aller Welt *So bleibt denoch ein gut Gewissen das schönste kleinod der Welt *Nur frisch hinein, es wird so tief nicht sein but also secular poetry and dramas *Trauer-Hirten-Spiel, 1674 *Der beglückwünschte Doppelsieg des Kaisers, 1675 *Die vom Himmel herabgestürmte Himmel-Stürmer, 1675 *Das vom ungerathenen Sausewind versuchte u. verfluchte Kriegs-Leben, 1675 *Das bedrückte u. wieder erquickte Brandenburg, 1675 *Das sterbende Leben, 1676 *Surbosia oder geschichtsmächtiges Helden-Gedicht, 1676 *Hirtengedicht Auff Das Anmuthseelige u. Freudenvolle Geburts-Fest Des Allergetreuesten Erz-Seelen-Hirten Jesu Christi, 1680 *Der unschuldig-beschuldigten Innocenzien Unschuld, e. nachdenkl. Genues. Gedicht in e. Mischspiel, 1680 *Die Vom Tod erweckte Phönizia, Eine Anmuthige Sicilian. Geschicht, In e. Misch-Spiel (Tragico-Comoedia), 1682 *Belustigung bei der Unlust aus allerhand Geist- u. andern Glückwunschs-Gedichten. J. - Der Verkehrte u. Wiederbekehrte Prinz Tugendhold, 1691 *Immergrünender Cypressen-Hayn, 1694 *Lust-Quartier, neben den Cypressen-Hayn, 1694 *Die unvergleichlich-schöne Princeßin Andromeda, In e. Misch-Spiel (Tragico-Comedia), 1695 *Sieg prangender Lorbeer-Hayn, 1700 *Eines vortrefflichen Poeten Geist- u. Weltliche Gedichte, 1715.

References

* *Horst Schulz, "Der Kreis Pr. Eylau", Verden/Aller 1983, p. 767

External links

Picture of Kongehl
1646 births 1710 deaths People from Bagrationovsky District People from the Duchy of Prussia German Lutheran hymnwriters German poets German-language poets Baroque writers University of Königsberg alumni {{Germany-poet-stub