Daniel Papebroch

Father Daniel Papebroch, copperplate engraving

Daniel Papebroch (also Papebrock, van Papenbroeck; born March 17, 1628 , in Antwerp , † June 28, 1714 , ibid) was a Jesuit priest , as well as church historian and writer; he belongs to the group of so-called Bollandists .

life and work

Daniel Papebroch was educated at the Jesuit college in his hometown and studied philosophy in Douai from 1644 to 1646 . In 1646 he entered the Jesuit order and also studied theology . In 1658 he was ordained a priest. From 1660 he worked with Jean Bolland at the Acta Sanctorum . He undertook u. a. with his friar Godefridus Henschenius (1600–1682) several research trips (Germany, Italy and France). He worked on 18 volumes of this work for almost 50 years, working on the lives of saints for the calendar dates from March 1st to June 5th. His influence is attributable to the fact that the volumes deviated from the concept developed by Bolland, which was strictly based on the calendar and the individual saints' lives, and now also includes summarizing works, such as B. Papebroch's history of the popes Propylaeum ad septem tomos maii and his Ephemerides Graecorum et Moscorum . He achieved particular importance through his Propylaeum antiquarium circa veri et falsi discrimen in vetustis membranis (1675), which inspired Jean Mabillon in 1681 to undertake the pioneering diplomatic work De re diplomatica . Papebroch did not join Mabillon's opponents, even if they fought the work of the founder of modern document theory under his name.

Daniel Papebroch was a critical reviewer of the sources. He showed that the tradition of the Carmelite order , to trace it back to the prophet Elias , lacks any historical basis. His criticism led, among other things, to a complaint with the Inquisition , which on October 25, 1695 finally condemned the volumes of the Acta Sanctorum written by Henschenius and Papebroch . It was not until 1715, a year after Papebroch's death, that Rome overturned the judgment of the Inquisition in Toledo .

In 1709 Papebroch finished his work at the Acta Sanctorum and devoted himself to a monumental history of his hometown that remained unfinished.

The Jesuit stood u. a. in correspondence with the historian and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .

Through his work Papebroch is not only important for church historiography in the narrower sense, but also for the development of modern historiography in general.

Works

• Ad Felicem Zacchiam: post caesum in propugnatione Cabdiae fulium Josephum Rondinium altero filio Natali Rondinio orbatum. Non posse etiam vitam brevem dici, quam numeris omnibus virtus et doctrinae absolverint, [o. O.] 1660;
• Johannes Bollandus / Gottfried Henschen / DP, Breves notitiae triplicis status ecclesiastici et singularii, excerptae ex actis Sanctorum ..., Antwerp 1668.
• Acta Sanctorum martii I-junii IV, Antwerp 1668–1707 (several new editions)
• Actae Vitae S [ancti] Ferdinandi Regis Castellae, Antwerp 1684
• Paralipomena addendorum, mutandorum, in conatu chronico histor. ad Catalogum Rome. Pontificium, unspecified 1685
• Non vera Origo atque Successio Sacri ordinis Carmelitani in confirmationem, verae originis atque successionis eiusdem historico chronologice demonstrata, Antwerp 1698; Protestatio iterata de Silentio circa primaevam sacri ordinis Carmelitani institutionem et antiquitatem semper sibi optato, nunc demum inviolabiliter tenendo, Antwerp 1698
• Elucidatio historica actorum in controversia super origine, antiquitate, & historiis Sacri Ord. BM de Monte Carmeli, inter quosdam illius & Societatis Jesu scriptores, Acta Sanctorum illustrare professos; quae est pars 3. & ultima Responsium Danielis Papebrochii ad exhibitionem errorum ..., Antwerp 1698 = Responsio ... ad Exhibitionem Errorum per adm. RP Sebastianum a S. Paulo Ord. Carmelitani evulgatam anno 1693 Coloniae, vol. 1–3, Antwerp 1696–1698
• Vera origine ... del Sacro ordine Carmelitano, o. O. o. J.
• Dissertationes de forma pallii cum quibusdam observationibus et figuris aerii incisis, in: Johann Georg Pertsch, Tractatio canonica de origine et auctoritate Pallii Archiepiscopalis ..., Helmstedt 1754
• Annales Antverpienses ab urbe condita ad annum M.DCC. Collecti ex ipsius civitatis monumentis publicis privatisque latinae ac patriae linguae iisque fere manu exaratis, ed. by Franz Hendrik Mertens and Ernest Buschmann, Antwerp 1845–1848
• Synopsis Annalium Antverpiensium / ex publicis privatisque AC Ferme Manuscriptis Monumentis collectorum a Daniel Papebrochius, edidit Ign. Van Spilbeeck IVSOP, Antwerp 1884
• Voyage littéraire des Pères Godefroid Henschenius et Daniel Papebrochius en l'année 1668, in: Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique 4 (1867), 337-348
• [Gottfried Henschen / DP]: A scholar's journey through Mainfranken 1660, ed. by Gottfried Engel and Max H. von Freeden, Würzburg 1952 (also: as: Mainfränkische Hefte 15)
• Letters of Daniel Papebroch, SJ, to Francis Harold, OFM, ed. by Fegal Grannell, in: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 59 (1966), 385–455
• Trois lettres du Bollandiste Papebroch à l'abbaye d'Averbode en 1694, ed. by Pl.Lefèvre, in: Analecta Praemonstratensia 42 (1966), 117
• South and Welschtiroler art monuments in the 17th century. First edition and translation of a Latin travelogue by the Bollandist Daniel Papebroch, ed. by Udo Kindermann, in: Der Schlern 66 (1992), 17–42.
• Udo Kindermann , European art monuments between Antwerp and Trento. Descriptions and evaluations by the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch from 1660. First edition, translation and commentary, Cologne 2002

literature

• P. Alb. Poncelet, SI, Mabillon et Papebroch, in: Melanges et documents publies à l'occasion du 2e centenaire de la mort de Mabillon, Liège 1908
• Udo Kindermann , art monuments between Antwerp and Trento. Descriptions and evaluations by the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch from 1660, first edition, translation and commentary, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-16701-1
• Paul Peeters, L'oeuvre des Bollandistes, Brussels 1961, 2nd ed.
• David Knowles, Great historical enterprises. Problems in monastic history, London et al. 1963
• Biografisch Archief van de Benelux, Munich 1994, 519, 356–379 (microfiches)
• Lexicon for Theology and Church 3rd ed., Vol. 7, 1324 f.
• Matthias Schnettger:  PAPEBROCH [Papebrochius, Papebrock, van Papenbroeck], Daniel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1113-1118.
• Sebastianus a Sancto Paulo, Exhibitio errorum quos P. Daniel Papebrochius Soc. Jesu suis in notis Acta Sanctorum commist contra Christi Domini Paupertatem, Aetatem & c summorum Pontificum Acta & Gesta .... Noethen, Cologne, 1693.
• Epistola Conradi Janningi ad superiores societatis Jesu per provinciam Flandro-Belgicam in obitu r. P. Danielis Papebrochii ejusdem societatis hagiographi, in: Acta sanctorum Junii ex Latinis & Graecis, aliarumque gentium monumentis, servata primigenia scriptorum phrasi collecta, digesta, commentariis & observationibus illustrata Acta sanctorum Junii, t. 6, 1. Robyns, Antwerp 1715, pp. 1–21 (before the portrait).
• David Gniffke, Konstatin Liebrand, Gerhard Müller: Eichsfeld preparatory work for the "Acta Sanctorum". The correspondence between the Jesuits Johannes Knackrick and Daniel Papebroch in 1692/93. In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 23rd vol. 2015, Mecke Druck and Verlag Duderstadt, pp. 71–187

Web links

• Newspaper article about Daniel Papebroch
• Homepage of the Societé des Bollandistes
• Publications by and about Daniel Papebroch in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Acta Sanctorum, maii, t. I.
2. ↑ Acta Sanctorum, aprilis, t. II
3. ↑ Source on correspondence with Leibnitz