Andreas Masius
Andreas Masius (born November 30, 1514 in Lennik near Brussels ; † April 7, 1573 in Zevenaar ; also: Andreas Maes ) was a Catholic cleric, humanist and one of the first European syrologists.
Life
After studying and briefly teaching in Leuven, Masius worked as secretary to Bishop Johannes von Weeze of Constance († November 13, 1548). Later he was, among other things, on behalf of Abbot Gerwig Blarer (1495–1567) von Weingarten , as a diplomatic representative in Rome. On the instructions of Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg, he asked the Pope in 1555 for permission to found a university in Duisburg . After leaving the clergy and getting married in 1559, he settled in Zevenaar and published several works in the last years of his life, despite his sickness.
Masius studied Hebrew in Louvain , Arabic in Rome with Guillaume Postel and, in 1553, Syriac with Moses von Mardin , a priest of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Syrians. In the same year he translated for Sulaqa , the chosen (counter) patriarch of the Eastern Syrian " Church of the East ", the documents required for his consecration in Rome from Syriac. In 1554 he made, probably in Germany, for Julius von Pflug († September 3, 1564), the last Catholic bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz , a (fairly free) Latin translation of the Syrian Basil's anaphora . Both appeared in print as supplements to Masius' transmission of the De Paradiso treatise by Moses bar Kepha .
In 1571 Masius published his Grammatica linguae syricae and the dictionary Syrorum Peculium , also with Plantin in Antwerp . Hoc est, vocabula apud Syros scriptores passim vsurpata .
Works
- Max Lossen : Letters from Andreas Masius and his friends 1538 to 1573 , 1886 (BoD 2014 ISBN 978-5519107853 )
literature
- Albert van Roey: Les études syriaques d'Andreas Masius . In: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 9 (1978), 141-158.
- Robert J. Wilkinson: Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation . Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16250-1
- Wim François: Andreas Masius (1514-1573): Humanist, Exegete and Biblical Scholar . In: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 61 (2009) 199–244.
- Max Lossen : Masius, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 559-562.
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Masius in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masius, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maes, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic cleric, humanist and syrologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1514 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lennik near Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1573 |
| Place of death | Zevenaar |