[2] He lived during the first half of the seventeenth century, a period characterised by Baroque architecture and, in northern Germany, repeatedly disrupted by destructive war, which at various points had a dislocating impact on his career, and through which he demonstrated impressive qualities of persistence.
[3][Note 3] In 1617 Wittenberg made him a member of the Philosophy faculty and gave him a teaching contract that covered Rhetoric, Logic, Physics, Ethics and Politics.
Christian Gueintz was recommended to The Prince, probably by the fashionably radical educationalist Wolfgang Ratke[3] and/or possibly by Jakob Martini.
Starting on 3 June 1619, Gueintz now found himself the other side of Dessau, in Köthen, teaching Latin and Greek.
[4] Negotiations took place in the house of the Halle council chairman, Karl Herold, whose son would later marry Christian Gueinz's eldest daughter, Ursula Elisabeth.
[4][5] The two had worked closely together on the Köthen school reform programme, with the hands-on approach of Gueintz elegantly complementing Ratke's intellectually formidable, but more theoretically based contributions to the project.