Czepko, D.von (English spelling) CzepkoDvon

…He studied medicine in various places and became a physician to the court of his native country, but during that time he became familiar with the works of mystics such as Tauler and Boehme, and was rejected by the strict Protestant faction, and 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, "The Cherubin Wanderer" (1675), consisting of two lines of Alexandriner verse, in which 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. His collection of poems, "The Joy of the Holy Soul" (1657), which praises Jesus from a Catholic standpoint in the form of a shepherd, and 55 Protestant polemics had a great influence on Pietist poets, but were forgotten until they were rediscovered by the Romantics. …

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…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。牧人の姿をかりてカトリックの立場からイエスを賛美した詩集《聖なる魂の喜び》(1657)や55編のプロテスタント論難集は，敬虔主義の詩人たちに多大の影響を与えたものの，その後ロマン派が再発見するまで忘れ去られた。…

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