Thomas Naogeorgus
playwright
Thomas Naogeorgus (Thomas Kirchmeyer, Kirchmair, Neubauer; 21 December 1508 – 29 December 1563) was a Latin dramatist, humanist, Protestant theologian, Protestant reformer, preacher and pamphleteer of the German Renaissance.
Naogeorgus was born in Straubing. His dramatic works were very influential in the German Reformation. He was greatly influenced by Martin Luther, but his teachings stand independent of Lutheranism, and the publication of his exegesis of 1 John was opposed by Luther and Melanchthon. He died, aged 55, in Wiesloch.
Works
Pammachius, 1538
Mercator seu judicium, tragedy, 1540
Incendia seu Pyrgopolinices, drama, 1541
Hamanus, tragedy, 1543
Carmen de bello Germanico, poems, 1548
Epitome ecclesiasticorum dogmatum, 1548
Agricultura sacra, 1550
Hieremias, tragedy, 1551
Iudas Iscariotes, drama, 1552
Satyrarum libri quinque, 1555
Regnum papisticum, 1555
De dissidiis componendis, ad Mathiam Bredenbachium, ludimagistrum Embricensem, Basilaeae 1559.
His collected works were edited by Hans-Gert Roloff (Berlin 1975-).
Literature
Franz Krojer: Naogeorg, in: Aufschluss des Gäubodens, München 2006 (Differenz-Verlag), (PDF)
Leonhard Theobald: Thomas Naogeorgus, der Tendenzdramatiker der Reformationszeit (Neue kirchliche Zeitschrift 17, 1906, 764–794; 18, 1907, 65–90, 327-350, 409–425).
A. Hübner. Studien zu Naogeorgus (Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 54, 1913, 297–338; 57, 1920, 193-222).
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