1797 - THE RUINS OF THE PANNONIAN STATE AND RELIGION IN HUNGARY & TRANSYLVANIA

Description: "CHRISTIAN SCHESAEUS - THE RUINS OF THE PANNONIAN BOOKS, STATE & RELIGION IN HUNGARY & TRANSYLVANIA IN THE TIME OF SIGIZMUND ZAPOLYA" printed in Sibiu from the edition of Wittemberg with the assistance of Joseph Charles EderTHE WORKS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHILOPHISTS TRANSSILVANIA - Edited & illustrated Tome I Volume I "Due to the extremely rich documentary additions and the masterly critical discussions of the editor for the Transylvanian historiography still of lasting value"Christian Schesaus (1535 – July 30, 1585) was a Transylvanian Saxon humanist, poet, and a Lutheran pastor. He was born in Medias, studied first in Brasow, and then from 1556 to 1558 at the University of Wittenberg. Ruinae Pannonnicae, his best-known work, was written in Latin and composed in dactylic hexameter on the model of Virgil’s Aeneid. The subject of the poem deals with the events in Transylvania, Hungary, Wallachia and Moldavia over the 31-year period of 1540 to 1571. Schesaus insists on the Roman origin and heritage of Romanians, backed by evidence he presents (together with proof of Dacian contributions). The work was first printed in Wittenberg (1571), and it ensured that Schesaus was awarded the title of Poet Laureate by Prince Stephen Bathory. Around 1580, Christian Schesaus was living in Biertan; he died of the plague. He was buried in St. Margaret’s Church, Medias, where his epitaph can still be seen in the choir.Schesaeus' most important work is the epic poem "Ruinae pannonicae". The first four books with an appendix were published by Clemens Schleich in Wittenberg in 1571. Based on the example of Virgil’s Aeneid, written in epic hexameters, the work describes events from Transylvanian and Hungarian history between 1540 and 1552. It describes the country of Transylvania and the history of its Reformation movement, as well as the history of the last Hungarian campaign of the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman I who died in 1566 during the siege of Szigetvar had died. Schesaeus sometimes foregoes historical accuracy in favor of the poetic effect. He himself wrote that the intention of his work was to arouse free peoples' understanding and compassion for the country oppressed by the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the fourth song, he writes: “At tu sum pater, nostri patriaeque misertusArdentes odijs animos, bellique tumultus,Comprime, ciuilis fatiis est iam sanguinis haustum [...]Nos, inter quorum saeuissima bella, manemus,Ceu manus imposita incudi, cui desuper ingensMalleus incumbit, pressamque graui obterit ictu.Regem cum populo ferua, defende, guberna:Vt faciant, dicantque, tuo non dissona verbo. " "But you, father of power, remembering the fatherland,Tie your hearts with hatred and fetter the storms of war!See, the earth has already drunk enough of the blood of the citizens [...]In the midst of the wild waves of the cruel struggleWe, like the hand that lies there stretched out on the anvil:Above her the load of the hammer rises and a crushing blow threatens -still awaits fulfillment today to a large extent. "(Ex.: GD Deutsch, 1890)Schesaeus' writings are among the few testimonies from the early days of the Reformation in Transylvania. Stephan Bathory, the King of Poland-Lithuania and Prince of Transylvania, to whom Schesaeus had sent the six last unprinted books of the Ruinae Pannonicae 1584 in 1584, awarded him the Poet’s Laurel..Published: 1797 in Sibiu Pages: 300 Size: 10" x 7.4" x 1.4" (25 cm x 20 cm x 4 cm)

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