Christian Gueintz
| Christian Gueintz (Christian Gueintzius) |
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| Born |
13 October 1592 Kohlo (Guben), Saxony (HRE) |
| Died | 3 April 1650 (aged 57) Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg (HRE) |
| Occupation | Educator and education reformer |
| Spouse(s) | Catharina Brand |
| Children | Ursula Elisabeth Gueintz (later Ursula Elisabeth Herold) and others |
| Parent(s) | Johannes Gueintzius Ursula Kretschmar/Gueintzius |
Christian Gueintz (13 October 1592 – 3 April 1650) was a teacher and writer-grammarian. He was qualified and taught in several mainstream subjects of the time, notably philosophy, theology, and law.
He lived during the first half of the seventeenth century, a period characterised by Baroque architecture and, in northern Germany, repeatedly disrupted by destructive war, which at various points had a dislocating impact on his career, and through which he demonstrated impressive qualities of persistence.
Guenitz was born in Kohlo near Guben, roughly 40 km (25 miles) north-east of Cottbus. His father was a protestant pastor. His mother, Ursula, was the daughter of another evangelical pastor, called Daniel Kretschmar. He attended school in Cottbus but had to leave when much of the city was destroyed by fire in 1608. Subsequently his school career took him to Guben, Crossen (1608/09), Sorau (1609–1612), Bautzen (1612) and Stettin (1613). When he was 23, on 23 June 1615 he entered the university (often identified in contemporary sources as "Leucorea"). Unusually it was just fifteen months later, on 24 September 1616, that he became a "Magister". In 1617 Wittenberg made him a member of the Philosophy faculty and gave him a teaching contract that covered Rhetoric, Logic, Physics, Ethics and Politics.
The noted education reformer Prince Louis I of Anhalt-Köthen was looking for a suitable teacher to lead the school reforms which he was promoting. Christian Gueintz was recommended to The Prince, probably by the fashionably radical educationalist Wolfgang Ratke and/or possibly by Jakob Martini. Starting on 3 June 1619, Gueintz now found himself the other side of Dessau, in Köthen, teaching Latin and Greek. It was at Köthen that Gueintz also translated Ratke's Grammatica universalis into Greek and compiled a book of language exercises in Greek and German (Griechischer Sprach Ubungprinted Köthen 1620).
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