August Buchner

Buchner, August (Dresden, 1591-1661, Wittenberg), became professor of poetry and rhetoric at Wittenberg University in 1616. An admirer of Opitz, he wrote both German and Latin poetry, publishing Nachtmahl des Herrn in 1628, Weynacht-Gedanken in 1638, and an opera libretto, Orpheus (1628), for which Heinrich Schütz composed the music. His Opitzian essay on poetics, Anleitung zur deutschen Poeterey, was published posthumously in 1665 (reprinted 1966).