Daniel Agricola

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Daniel Agricola , actually Daniel Meyer (* around 1490 probably in Basel ; † around 1540), was a Swiss Franciscan , preacher and author of Latin and German edification writings .

Life

Chapter illustration by Urs Graf from The life of the holy bychtigers vnd einsidlers sant Batten , Basel 1511.

Nothing is known about the youth and training of Daniel Meyer , Latinized Agricola . He entered the Barfüsserkloster in Basel as a Franciscan Observant , which belonged to the Upper German or Strasbourg Franciscan Province ( Provincia Argentina ), and worked there as a reading master . In 1510 he was mentioned as a preacher in the Chronicle of Konrad Pellikan . During his time in Basel, he published various edification writings, some of which had multiple editions. Some of his writings were illustrated by the artist Urs Graf , who was then living in Basel . In 1511 Adam Petri published a Vita Beati , a collection of legends about the “Swiss apostle” Beatus vom Beatenberg , in both a Latin and a German edition. Each chapter is introduced by a woodcut by Urs Graf. His passion story Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi , of which several editions were printed up to 1520 (Basel 1509, 1512, 1513, 1516, 1521), was also successful . The passion story could serve as an aid to priests.

From 1523 Daniel Agricola is recorded in the Franciscan convent in Kreuznach . In this monastery he wrote two writings against the Lutheran doctrine, which are only preserved as manuscripts ( Obeliscus contra Lutherum , 1528 and Wegfart mit sicherm gleid by Luttersche abweg , 1529). How long Agricola stayed in Kreuznach is not known. He probably died around 1540.

Works

  • Passio domini nostri iesu christi secundum seriem quattuor evangelistarum. Basel 1509 (edition of 1511 with illustrations by Urs Graf) ( VD 16 : B 4701 - B 4721)
  • Almi confessoris et anachorete Beati: Helveciorum primi evangelistae et apostoli: a sancto Petro missi vita: iam pridem exarata. Basel 1511 (with illustrations by Urs Graf) Digitized version ( bibliographic information ) ( VD 16 : M 5078 )
  • The life of the holy bychtiger vnd Einsidlers sant Batten, the first apostle of the Oberland, called Heluecia. Basel 1511
  • An emblem book - avant la lettre: Daniel Agricola "Vita beati" (1511) : photographic reprint of the Latin work with synoptic addition of a New High German translation and the transcription of the early New High German print, ed. by Seraina Plotke. Basel: Schwabe 2012
  • Directory in Dominice passionis articulas. Basel 1511 ( VD 16 : in P 1872 (1513) and P 1873 (1516))
  • The life of our doer Jesus Christ according to the holy Ewangeli with a lot of real contemplation, also with the beginning of the life of junckfrawen Marie, from a barefoot of obseruantz So put together from the beginning of the child-thief Cristi bit on his sky-like full sweet and real empty contemplation. Nuremberg 1514 digitized version ( VD 16 : M 5079 )
  • Danielis Agricolae Minoritae Obeliscus (contra Lutherum). (Handwriting) Kreuznach 1528
  • Go away with sure glory through Luttersche astray a yden Christians Clar on day glide through xl tagreiss on the mountain wares faith. (Handwriting) Kreuznach 1529

literature

  • M. Bihl: Agricola (Daniel), franciscain observant († 1540) . In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. Vol. 1, 1912, p. 1022
  • Florence Landmann: On the preaching system of the Strasbourg Franciscan Province in the last period of the Middle Ages . In: Franziskanische Studien 14 (1927), pp. 297-332
  • Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Agricola, Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • András Vizkelety: Agricola, Daniel. In: Hans-Gert Roloff (Hg.): The German literature: Biographisches und Bibliographisches Lexikon. Series II: The German literature between 1450 and 1620. Section A: Lexicon of authors. Bern; Frankfurt a. M .; New York: Lang, 1985, col. 391-402

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Riggenbach (ed.): The Chronicon of Konrad Pellikan . Basel 1877, p. 41.
  2. ↑ Cf. Seraina Plotke: The early book printing as an experimental field for text-image relationships. In: Journal for German Philology. 129/1 (2010), pp. 127-142.
  3. ↑ Cf. Gabriela Signori : Beat, the Swiss Apostle. A hagiographic "invention of tradition". In: Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra (eds.): Construction of the present and future . Frankfurt a. M. 2008, pp. 3-23.
  4. ↑ See Landmann (1927)
  5. ↑ Marti-Weissenbach (HLS)
personal data
SURNAME Agricola, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan preacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH around 1540