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1570s births1621 deathsPeople from Police, PolandGerman Lutheran clergyPeople from the Duchy of PomeraniaGerman male dramatists and playwrights17th-century German dramatists and playwrights17th-century German writers17th-century male writersGerman writer stubs
GermanplaywrightLutheranPölitz (Police)PomeraniaHenry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-LüneburgWolfenbüttelThirty Years' WarLatinLatinsycophanticrhetorical questionscommon-sense
Ludwig Hollonius (c. 1570 – 1621) was a German playwright.
Sacristy of the former St. Mary's Church from the 15th century on the market in the Old Town in Police
Pastor
As a Lutheran pastor in Pölitz (Police), Pomerania, he carefully refined his plays so that they met with the approval of his benefactor, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who was responsible for building up Wolfenbüttel so much that it was the most heavily reinforced fortress in the Thirty Years' War.
Chief Work
Hollonius is chiefly remembered for his Latin opus, a comic farce, Somnium Vitae Humanae - (Latin for "Dream of a Human Life") - wherein an ordinary man, upon being made king for a day, is showered with all the flattering praise a king must confront daily, and yet also must deal with the concerns of his office, to which, in the form of advice to the circle of sycophantic hangers on around him, he attempts to frame in the form of rhetorical questions, answered by common-sense answers.
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