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BALDE, JAKOB (1604-1668) , German Latinist, was born at Ensisheim in Alsace
Alsace
Count Mansfeld, he fled to Ingolstadt where he began to study law. A love disappointment, however, turned his thoughts to the church, and in 1624 he entered the Society of Jesus. Continuing his study of the humanities, he became in 1628 professor of rhetoric at Innsbruck
Munich
Maximilian
Munich
count palatine. In the opinion of his contemporaries, Balde revived the glories of the Augustan age, and Pope
Horace . While such judgments are naturally exaggerated, there is no doubt that he takes a very high place among modern Latin poets. He died at Neuberg on the 9th of August 1668.A collected edition of Balde's works in 4 vols. was published at Cologne in 165o; a more complete edition in 8 vols. at Munich, 1729; also a good selection by L. Spach (Paris and Strassburg, 1871). An edition of his Latin lyrics appeared at Regensburg in 1884. There are translations into German of his finer odes, by J. Schrott and M. Schleich (Munich, 1870). See G. Westermayer, Jacobus Balde, sein Leben and seine Werke (1868) ; J. Bach, Jakob
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