Jakob Balde

BALDE, JAKOB (1604-1668), German Latinist, was born at Ensisheim, in Alsace. In 1624 he entered the Society of Jesus, and in 1633 was ordained priest. His lectures and poems had now made him famous; in 1638 he became court chaplain to the elector, Maximilian I. at Munich, where he remained till 1650. In 1654 he was transferred to Neuberg on the Danube, as court preacher to the count palatine. There he died on Aug. 9, 1668. Balde ranks high among modern Latin verse writers.

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collected edition of Balde's works was published at Cologne (165o) ; a more complete edition at Munich (1729) ; also a good selection by L. Spach (Paris and Strasbourg, 1871) . An edition of his Latin lyrics appeared at Regensburg (1884) . There are translations into German of his finer odes, by J. Schrott and M. Schleich (Munich, 187o) . See G. Westermayer, Jacobus Balde, sein Leben and seine Werke (1868) ; J. Bach, Jakob Balde (Freiburg, 1904).