Emanuel van Meteren
Emanuel van Meteren (born September 6, 1535 in Antwerp , † April 11, 1612 in London ; also Emanuel von Meteren ) was a Flemish historian and representative of Dutch merchants in London.
Life
Van Meteren's father was the banker Jacobus van Meteren, who published early English Bible editions; his mother the sister of Abraham Ortelius . He first attended school in Antwerp, later in Tournai and Duffel and was back in Antwerp by 1549 at the latest. His father had given him the trading stand and therefore brought him to London, where he settled for the rest of his life after the death of his parents.
He was arrested on May 2, 1575, suspected of espionage on account of his many journeys between Antwerp and London , but released shortly afterwards. After a trip through England and Ireland he worked from 1583 as captain and representative of the Dutch merchants in London.
His uncle Abraham Ortelius had encouraged him between 1583 and 1596 to process his historical collections on the Netherlands into a manuscript and to publish them. The illustrations should be supplemented by an engraver in Germany. Before he could finish his work, however, Ortelius died, whose heirs published the work in Nuremberg in 1596 and soon after in Cologne in German and Latin.
Book printer Johann van de Vennecool from Delft planned to translate the book back into Dutch, but eventually used the original Dutch version at the instigation of van Meteren. This version appeared in 1599 under the original title " Historie der Nederlandsche ende haerder Naburen oorlogen en Geschiedenissen ", in English "History of the wars and history of the Netherlands and their neighbors".
Since van Meteren's work contained a detailed description of contemporary political events as well as the Eighty Years War between the Netherlands and Spain , the States General confiscated the already printed copies of the Dutch edition, but released them after the censorship.
In order to circumvent the censorship, van Meteren published his second book, which appeared in 1609, without specifying the printing location Amsterdam . This work reported what happened on one of Henry Hudson's trips . Even if Dutch historiography was continued until 1611, he did not specify the place of printing.
Van Meteren died in London in 1612. Further editions of his works were published in 1618 in The Hague and 1670 in Amsterdam in French and 1604 in Arnhem , 1640 in Amsterdam and 1669 in Frankfurt am Main in German.
In reception, van Meteren is considered to be one of the best sources on Dutch history between 1590 and 1600, but he is sometimes accused of having made a partial judgment on the Catholic Church .
literature
- Leendert Brummel: Twee ballingen 's lands tijdens onze opstand tegen Spanje. Hugo Blotius (1534-1608), Emanuel van Meteren (1535-1612) . Nijhoff, s'-Gravenhage 1972, ISBN 90-247-1461-3 , (Dutch).
- Wouter Dirk Verduyn: Emanuel van Meteren. Bijdrage tot de kennis van zijn leven, zijn tijd en het ontstaan van zijn divorced work . Nijhoff, s'-Gravenhage 1926, (also: s'-Gravenhage, Univ., Diss., 1926), (Dutch).
- Edzo H. Waterbolk: "Ubbo Emmius me possidet". Ubbo Emmius en het Geschiedwerk van Emanuel van Meteren . In: LJ Engels (ed.): Bibliotheek, wetenschap en cultuur. Opstellen aangeboden aan mr. WRH Koops bij zijn afscheid as the library of the Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen . Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen 1990, ISBN 90-367-0209-7 , pp. 591-604, (Dutch).
- Karl Theodor Wenzelburger: Meteren, Emanuel van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 509 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meteren, Emanuel van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meteren, Emanuel von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1535 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1612 |
| Place of death | London |