Angelus Silesius

Japanese: アンゲルス･ジレージウス（英語表記）Angelus Silesius

1624‐77
A mystical religious poet of the German Baroque period. His real name was Johann Scheffler. He studied medicine in various places and became a physician to the court of his native country. During that time, he became familiar with the works of mystics such as Tauler and Boehme, and was rejected by the strict Protestant sect. He converted to Catholicism in 1653. Following the example of Daniel von Czepko (1605-60), who applied Opitz's poetics to religious poetry, he wrote a collection of epigrams, Der Cherubin Anglican Wanderer (1675), consisting of two lines of Alexandriner verse. In these epigrams, his religious suffering, his experience of God through his confession of faith, and the unity of the mind with God are expressed simply and beautifully, along with mystical and natural philosophical ideas.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1624‐77
ドイツ･バロック時代の神秘主義的宗教詩人。本名Johann Scheffler。各地で医学を学び，故国の宮廷侍医となるが，その間タウラー，ベーメ等の神秘主義者の著作に親しんだため，厳格なプロテスタント一派から退けられ，1653年カトリックへ改宗した。オーピッツの詩学を宗教詩に適用したチェプコDaniel von Czepko(1605‐60)にならって，アレクサンドリーナー詩格2行からなるエピグラム集《ケルビン天使風のさすらい人》(1675)を著したが，そこには彼の宗教的苦悩や信仰告白を通じた神の体験，精神と神との一体化が，神秘主義的･自然哲学的イデーとともに簡明に美しく表出されている。

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