Florus of Lyon

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Florus von Lyon , Latinized Florus Lugdunensis, († around 860) was a deacon and theologian of the first half of the 9th century in Lyon .

Life

Nothing is known about his origins and youth. He was probably educated in Lyon at the cathedral school founded by Bishop Leidrad of Lyon . A letter from him, Archbishop Agobard of Lyon and the priest Hildigisius between 827 and 830 to Bishop Bartholomew of Narbonne is the first written mention of him. At that time he was already a deacon of Lyon, which he remained until his death. Since he already had a reputation as a theologian at that time, he was probably born at the end of the 8th century. This is also confirmed by a letter from Walahfrid Strabo to Bishop Agobard from the same time, in which he is praised as someone whose reputation had penetrated as far as the Rhine. He died around 860.

He was an influential theologian in the Franconian Empire who took a stand on church political and internal church issues and was consulted. He countered secular political influences on the church, such as at the Synod of Diedenhofen in 835 (which led to the temporary disempowerment of the Bishop of Lyon Agobard) and took a stand against the liturgical reforms of Agobard's temporary successor Amalarius , whom he accused of heresy. According to Dopsch (Lexicon of the Middle Ages), his polemics led to the removal of Amalarius. Otherwise he was against all kinds of innovations and strictly adhered to tradition (Dopsch).

Florus was involved in the dispute over the doctrine of predestination by Gottschalk von Orbais , who was condemned at the Synod of Quierzy (849), against which, however, resistance arose especially in the western part of the Frankish Empire, also through Florus von Lyon, who defended Gottschalk against Johannes Scotus Eriugena .

He wrote comments on Paul's letters and added to the martyrology of Beda Venerabilis , took care of the expansion of the library at the cathedral school and compiled excerpts from church fathers. He also wrote some Latin poems, mostly on biblical subjects, but also, for example, a complaint about the collapse of the Frankish Empire. Like Agobard, he also wrote against the Jews.

Fonts

  • De iniusta vexatione ecclesiae Lugdunensis
  • Capitula ex lege et canone collecta
  • De electionibus episcoporum (freedom of the election of bishops from secular influences on the occasion of the deposition of Agobard in 835)
  • Querela de divisione Imperii
  • De expositione Missae
  • Opuscula contra Amalarium (including: Invectio canonica Martini papae in Amalarium officiographum)
  • Opuscula de praedestinatione (including: Liber adversus Johannem Scotum)
  • De fugiendis contagiis Iudeorum (On avoiding dealing with Jews)
  • De coertione Judeorum ... (on the taming of the Jews, compilation of canon law offices against the Jews, as well as questions of canon law on proceedings against clerics, directed against Bishop Modoin von Autun)
  • Martyrology (extension of the martyrology of Beda Venerabilis)
  • Carmina (poems)

Expenditure:

  • Migne (Ed.), Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina, Volume 119, pp. 9ff, Volume 121, pp. 985-1134
  • Édition pratique des martyrologes de Bède, de l'anonyme lyonnais et de Florus, Ed. Jacques Dubois, Geneviève Renaud, Paris: Éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique 1976
  • Monumenta Germania Historica, Epistolae selectae, Volume V, pp. 267-273, 340-343
  • Monumenta Germania Historica, Leges, Concilia, Volume II / 2, pp. 768-782
  • Monumenta Germania Historica, Antiquitates, Poetae latini medii aevi, Volume II, pp. 507-566, Volume IV / 3, pp. 930-931

Critical Edition:

  • PI. Fringes u. a .: Flori Lugdunensis Opera Omnia, in: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis, Turnhout: Brepols, from 2002

literature

  • F. Brunhölzl: History of Latin Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 1, Munich 1975, pp. 427–437
  • Célestin Charlier: Les manuscrits personnels de Florus de Lyon et son activité littéraire. In: Mélanges Emmanuel Podechard. Etudes de sciences religieuses offertes pour son éméritat au doyen honoraire de la Faculté de Théologie de Lyon, Lyon 1945, pp. 71–84, reprinted in Revue bénédictine, Volume 119/2, 2009, pp. 252–269
  • C. Charlier: Article Florus in Dictionnaire de spiritualité, Volume 5, 1964, pp. 514-526
  • Heinz Dopsch : Florus von Lyon, Lexicon of the Middle Ages , Volume IV, Column 577-578
  • PI. Fransen, Description de la collection hieronymienne de Florus de Lyon su l'Apotre, Rev. Bénedict., Volume 94, 1984, pp. 195-228
  • Louis Holtz: De l'Antiquité à l'époque Carolingienne: la Bibliothèque de Florus de Lyon. In: Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, 2002, Manuscrits médiévaux: de l'usage au trésor, pp. 17-27
  • Klaus Zechiel-Eckes : Florus of Lyon as a church politician and publicist. Studies on the personality of a Carolingian “intellectual” using the example of the dispute with Amalarius (835-838) and the dispute over predestination (851-855). In: Sources and research on law in the Middle Ages 8, Stuttgart 1999
  • Johann Peter Kirsch : Catholic Encyclopedia. 1909.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ According to the church records on February 8th (no year), since he was last mentioned in 859 and Bishop Hinkmar of Reims speaks of him as deceased in 861, he died in 860 or 861.
  2. ↑ According to Dopsch, Florus was angry at Johannes Scotus' argument that he argued independently and did not just refer to the Bible and church fathers.
personal data
SURNAME Florus of Lyon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florus Lugdunensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH around 860