ROLLENHAGEN, Gabriel - b. 1583 Magdeburg, d. 1619 Magdeburg - WGA

ROLLENHAGEN, Gabriel

(b. 1583 Magdeburg, d. 1619 Magdeburg)

German writer, the son of Georg Rollenhagen, a schoolmaster and pastor in Magdeburg. He was a lawyer in the service of the cathedral chapter of Magdeburg. He wrote in German and Latin. He was also the author of a notable emblem book in Latin, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum (2 vols., 1610-13).

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This emblem is from Gabriel Rollenhagen’s Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, published in Arnhem and Utrecht, 1611-13. The female figure is the personification of temperance.

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