George of Slavonia

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George of Slavonia (Latin Georgius de Sclavonia , French Georges d'Esclavonie , Georges de Sorbonne , Georges de Rayn , Croatian Juraj Slovinac ; * around 1355/60? Possibly in Rayn, today Brežice , Diocese of Aquileia ; † 1416 in Tours ) was a Slavonian clergyman and scholar who was a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris . He campaigned for the Croatian language and the Glagolitic script in the Catholic Church.

Life

Georg lived in Rayn, today Brežice , in the diocese of Aquileia (today Slovenia). From 1391 he was at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1401 he became a doctor of theology there, and in 1403 a professor. In 1404 he went to Tours as a cleric , where he was, among other things, confessor in the Beaumont Benedictine convent. He died in 1416.

Fonts

  • Glagolitic manuscript , around 1400, 6 pages, text in Glagolitic script in Croatian, with a Glagolitic alphabet, the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the Nicene and the Apostolic Creed, a psalm, each with a Latin text between the lines (interlinear gloss) and the names of the Croatian bishops. One formulation was: The bishop in Croatia should be the first to speak both languages, both Latin and Croatian. ( Primus episcopus Chrawacie qui scit utrumque ydioma, tam latinum quam chrawaticum ... )
  • La chasteau de virginité , after 1404, preserved in several copies of the 15th century, prints 1505, 1506 and 1510 in French and 1726 in Latin.
  • Letter to Isabelle de Villeblanche , 1411

  • alphabet

  • Istria eadem patria Chrawati

literature

  • Geneviève Hasenohr: Georges d'Esclavonie . In: Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: le Moyen Âge . Fayard, Paris 1992, p. 512.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Printed Paris 1505. Early manuscripts in the Beincke Rare Book and Manuscript Library , Yale University MS 497 ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / brbl-dl.library.yale.edu
personal data
SURNAME George of Slavonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georgius de Sclavonia; Georges d'Sorbonne; Georges de Esclavonie; Juraj Slovinac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slavonian clergyman and scholar, active in France
DATE OF BIRTH around 1360
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Rayn, Slavonia
DATE OF DEATH 1416
Place of death Tours