Gerardus Synellius
Gerardus Synellius ( Synel, Snellius, Schnell ; * around 1470 in Groningen , Netherlands; † June 8, 1552 in Norden , East Frisia), was a theologian and last abbot of the Marienthal Monastery in East Frisia .
Life
Synellius was appointed abbot of the Rottum Benedictine monastery around 1500 . From 1512 until his death he was abbot of the Benedictine double monastery in Marienthal . Since Marienthal was the home monastery of the East Frisian count family Cirksena , he maintained a close relationship with the count house. In 1542 he was still active on a diplomatic mission for Countess Anna . Ubbo Emmius calls him a man of the highest learning and an ornament of Friesland . This judgment is confirmed by his only surviving work. It is a prayer book that stands in the tradition of the Devotio moderna and that Synellius wrote in the classical form of poetry. The author shows himself to be a learned and courageous humanist .
Works
- Hortulus orationum , Deventer 1525 (This edition may go back to an earlier one from 1512.)
literature
- Ubbo Emmius : Rerum Frisicarum historia , Leiden 1616, p. 34; 839; 912
- Menno Smid: Ostfriesische Kirchengeschichte , Pewsum 1974 (in the series Ostfriesland im Schutz des Deiches , Volume VI), p. 122; 158
- Martin Tielke: Gerardus SYNELLIUS (SYNEL, SNELLIUS, SCHNELL) , in: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland (Ed. On behalf of the East Frisian Landscape by Martin Tielke), Volume II, Aurich 1993, ISBN 3-925365-75-3 , p. 341 -342
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| SURNAME | Synellius, Gerardus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Synel, Gerardus; Snellius, Gerardus; Quick, Gerardus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Theologian and last abbot of the Marienthal monastery in East Frisia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1470 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groningen , the Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1552 |
| Place of death | north |