Christoph Brouwer

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Christoph Brouwer

Christoph Brouwer (born November 10, 1559 in Arnhem ; † June 2, 1617 in Trier ; Latinized Christophorus Brouwerus ) was a German Jesuit and historian .

Life

Christoph Brouwer was born on November 10, 1559 in Arnhem. On March 12, 1580, the Jesuit order accepted him in Trier. From 1601 to 1613 he was head of the Jesuit College in Fulda , and later he was transferred back to Trier. He was also employed there as a philosophy professor at the University of Trier . There he died of gout on June 2, 1617 at the age of 59 .

He not only wrote important historical works such as the Fuldensium antiquitatum libri IV (four books on the antiquities [of the monastery and prince-bishopric ] Fulda) from 1612 or the Antiquitatum et annalium Trevirensium libri XXV (25 books on antiquities and yearbooks [of the archbishopric ] Trier) from 1629 (incomplete), 2nd edition ed.Jacob Masen Liège 1670, but edited important previously unpublished sources and literary texts from the important manuscript holdings found on site, such as the poems of Venantius Fortunatus and Hrabanus Maurus (1603/1617) as well as a number of biographies in the Sidera Sanctorum virorum (stars of holy men) from 1616, the lives or translation reports of the bishops or archbishops Gregor von Utrecht , Liudger von Münster , Pirmin , Godehard and Bernward von Hildesheim , Epiphanius von Pavia , Leander von Seville , Fulgentius of Cartagena or Écija , Isidor of Seville and Meinwerk of Paderborn as well as the abbots Sturmi and Eigil von Fulda, the holy archdeacon Meinolf von Paderborn, the count and monastery founder Ludwig III. from Arnstein . He already followed the principles of a text constitution developed by Heribert Rosweyde and the Bollandists for the Acta Sanctorum by leaving forms in the text that were difficult to understand or morphologically or orthographically deviating from the norm and explained them in the margin. He worked on his main work, a story of the Archdiocese of Trier , for 30 years. The work was partially printed in 1629, years after Brouwer's death, but censored by the electors . It was not published until 1670, albeit heavily modified and supplemented.

Works

  • Fuldensium antiquitatum libri IIII . 1612 digitized
  • Sidera illustrium et sanctorum virorum qui Germaniam praesertim Magnam olim rebus gestis ornarunt, e manuscriptis in lucem eruta . Joannes Albinus, Moguntiae (Mainz) 1616 digitized
  • Venantii Honorii Fortunati presbyteri Italici episcopi Pictaviensis Carminum, epistolarum, expositionum libri XI. Poematis et libris singularibus aucti. Novaque rursum editione illustrati. Accessere Hrabani Mauri Fuldensis, Archiepiscopi Magontini Poemata sacra nunquam edita. Omnia recens illustrata enotis variis . Bernardus Gualtherus, Moguntiae (Mainz) 1617 digitized version (first edition only of the works of Venantius: Venantii Honorii Clementiani Fortunati Italici Presbyteri, Episcopi Pictauiensis, vetusti et christiani poetae Carminum, epistolarum et expositionum libi XI ad veterum exemplarium fidem castigati. Additi, praeter supplementa, de vita S. Martini Libri IV. Omnia recens illustrata Notis sacris, historicis et geographicis. Balthasarus Lippius, Moguntiae (Mainz) 1603 digitized )
  • Antiquitatum et annalium Trevirensium libri XXV . Two volumes. Cologne 1629 (according to ADB: 1626; incomplete due to censorship, edition largely destroyed); ed.Jacob Masen, Johannes Mathias Hovius, (Leodii) Lüttich 1670 (complete and supplemented) Digitized Vol. 1 Digitized Vol. 2
  • Metropolis ecclesiae Trevericae […], ed. Christianus de Stramberg . Two volumes. 1855–1856 Digitized volume 1 Digitized volume 2

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ So NDB, 1626 after ADB.

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SURNAME Brouwer, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brouwerus, Christophorus; Brower, Christoph; Broweer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1559
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnhem
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1617
Place of death trier