Ein „überaus feinsinniges“ Propemptikon (1674). Eine Stilanalyse

In De poesi hodiemorum politicorum, Christian Weise (1642-1708) emphasises the Propempticon, which the Societas Disquirentium in Jena dedicated to its member Eberhard Rudolph Roth on his appointment to the Ulm Gymnasium in 1674, as „highly subtle“. This poem, an „astute inscription“ of 47 lines, is translated into Ger­man and stylistically annotated here. It is shown that the poem – in accordance with some theorems by Jacob Masen, Emanuele Tesauro and Christian Weise – contains a number of typical elements of the „astute diction“, but expresses the authors' cen­tral message, the emphasis on their strong inner bond with Roth, in an unusual way, and does so in a „highly subtle“ manner.