Anianus of Celeda

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Anianus or Annianus of Celeda ( Latin Anianus Celedensis ) (5th century) was a deacon in a parish called Celeda.

Celeda has so far not been able to be located, an ancient city of the name is unknown, the suggestions for a localization range from Pannonia to Syria . Anianus is narrated as a supporter of Pelagius . Jerome mentions a lost treatise by Anianus directed against him, in which he represented the original teaching of Pelagius. Augustine of Hippo had asked him to comment by letter. Obviously, this dispute led to the condemnation of Pelagianism 417/418, while Pelagius and Anianus would have successfully denied the accusations at the Synod of Diospolis , so Hieronymus in his last letter to Augustine of Hippo.

Between 415 and 420 Anianus translated two collections of sermons by John Chrysostom into Latin, consisting of the first 25 of 90 sermons on the Gospel of Matthew as well as seven eulogies for the apostle Paul. Both Augustine of Hippo and Pope Leo I , Cassiodorus and Beda Venerabilis knew this translation.

Two dedications in the form of letters precede the two collections of sermons as a foreword. The collection of eulogies for Paul is dedicated to a presbyter Evangelius who cannot be determined . The collection of sermons on the Gospel of Matthew is addressed to the Italian Bishop Orontius , who, along with others, had refused to sign the condemnation of Pelagianism by Pope Zosimus expressed in the epistola tractoria . The preambles address the recipient as the client of the translations and identify Latin as the mother tongue of Anianus.

Sometimes the opus imperfectum in Matthaeum of the pseudo-Chrysostom is ascribed to Anianus.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Honigmann : Patristic studies (= Studi e testi. Volume 173). Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican State 1953, pp. 54–58.
  2. ↑ Kate Cooper: An (n) ianus of Celeda and the Latin Readers of John Chrysostom. In: Studia Patristica , Volume 27, 1993, pp. 249-255 ( Google Books , limited preview).
  3. ↑ Hieronymus, Epistulae 143 ( online ).
  4. ↑ That Anianus took part in the synod is deduced from Hieronymus, Epistulae 143,99; see. Alfons Fürst : From Origen and Hieronymus to Augustine. Studies on the ancient history of theology (= work on church history. Volume 115). De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, pp. 208/209 and 355 ( Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Martin Schanz : The literature of the fifth and sixth centuries. Revised by Carl Hosius (= Handbook of Classical Studies . Volume 8,4,2). Unchanged reprint of the first edition published in 1920. CH Beck, Munich 1970, p. 511 ( Google Books ); Arthur G. Holder, William Trent Foley (Eds.): Bede: A Biblical Miscellany. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 1999, p. 134, ISBN 0-85323-683-6 ( Google Books ).
  6. ↑ Anianus Celedensis, Praefatio ad Gospel homiliis de laudibus S. Pauli praefixa (= Patrologia Graeca . Volume 50. Migne, Paris 1862, col. 471 * -472 *, Google Books ).
  7. ^ Adolf Primmer : The original version of Anianus' epistula ad Orontium. In: Rudolf Hanslik , Albin Lesky , Hans Schwabl et al. (Eds.): Antidosis. Festschrift for Walther Kraus on his 70th birthday (= Wiener Studien. Supplement 5). Böhlau, Vienna 1972, pp. 278–289.
  8. ^ First by Fredric W. Schlatter: The Author of the Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum. In: Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 42, 1988, pp. 364-375; Refusing direct attribution to Anianus Kate Cooper: An (n) ianus of Celeda and the Latin Readers of John Chrysostom. In: Studia Patristica , Volume 27, 1993, pp. 254 f .; taking into consideration without definition James A. Kellerman, Thomas C. Oden: Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus Imperfectum). InterVarsity Press 2010, p. XX ( Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Anianus of Celeda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deacon in a parish called Celeda
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century
DATE OF DEATH after 415