Aegidius Gelenius

Sculpture of Aegidius Gelenius on the Cologne town hall tower (left). Sculptor: Paul de Swaaf

The image of the Cologne historiographer and Osnabrück auxiliary bishop 1631

Aegidius Gelenius (born June 10, 1595 in Kempen , † August 24, 1656 in Osnabrück ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and Cologne historiographer from the 17th century.

Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Cologne on March 16, 1619 , he was appointed Titular Bishop of Aureliopolis in Asia and Auxiliary Bishop of the Osnabrück Diocese on November 29, 1655 . He received his episcopal ordination on March 26, 1656, but died shortly afterwards.

His best-known work is the book, published in Cologne in 1645, “Of the admirable, holy and civil greatness of Cologne” ( De admiranda sacra et civili magnitudine Coloniae ).

The Cologne historiographer Johannes Gelenius (1585–1631) was his brother.

literature

• Leonard Ennen :  Gelenius, Johannes and Aegidius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 534-537. (Family item)
• August Franzen :  Gelenius, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 173 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Michael F. Feldkamp : The appointment of the Osnabrück auxiliary bishops and vicars general in the time of the "successio alternativa" according to Roman sources, in: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 81 (1986), pp. 229–247.
• Michael F. Feldkamp : Gelenius, Aegidius, in: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803. A biographical lexicon. Edited by Erwin Gatz with the assistance of Stephan M. Janker, Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-428-06763-0 . P. 148.

Web links

Commons : Aegidius Gelenius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rhineland Regional Association: Johann Gelenius (1585–1631) and Aegidius Gelenius (1595–1656), priests and historians
• Literature by and about Aegidius Gelenius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Aegidius Gelenius in VD 17 .
• Entry on Aegidius Gelenius on catholic-hierarchy.org
• The Farragines Gelenianae in the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne