Quirinus Kuhlmann

Gerhart Hoffmeister (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 23 Feb 1651
Died 4 Oct 1689
Activity 1670-1689

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany; England; Germany; Netherlands; Russia

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Reformer

Resources

Quirinus Kuhlmann is one of the most remarkable figures among German baroque authors and beyond in all of German literature. He himself regarded his life as a unique “miracle”, before he knew that his journey as a great poet and mystic would – after many fiery and rather grotesque undertakings – end at the stake. He was burned alive together with his books which testify to his chief goal in life: to restore the untainted Adamic word of God in German through his ecstatic language feats. This could only be achieved in his self-assumed role as the new poetic Messiah of the coming kingdom of Jesus.

Born in Breslau (Silesia) on 25 February 1651 to a Lutheran merchant, the first two decades of his life seem to follow the …

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Citation: Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "Quirinus Kuhlmann". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 July 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11804, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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