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Gobelin Person (also Gobelinus Person ; * 1358 in Paderborn or the immediate vicinity; † November 17, 1421 in Böddeken near Paderborn) was an important historian and church reformer from the Principality of Paderborn .

His main work, the Cosmidromius (" Run of the World ") completed in June 1418 , is one of the most important historical works of the 15th century.

Life

Gobelin Person was born in 1358 in Paderborn or the immediate vicinity. Nothing more is known about his childhood and youth.

At the age of 25 he was in Italy to work in the Apostolic Chamber, the financial administration of the papal curia . In 1383 he took part in the procession of Pope Urban VI. to Naples against the local King Karl and held in 1384 together with Urban VI. in Lucera . Together with Petrus de Lupis , the papal thesaurar and provost of Genoa , he traveled to Benevento in 1385 and in 1385/1386 drove with the Pope around the southern tip of Italy through the road from Messina to Genoa. There he was ordained priest on April 21, 1386 along with 71 other candidates. In the same year he returned to Paderborn, where he initially continued to work for the Apostolic Chamber .

From 1389 to 1408 he was rector of the Trinity Chapel in Paderborn Cathedral and from 1390 to 1410 pastor of the Paderborn market church St. Pankratius. The Trinity Chapel was in a poor structural condition at that time and Gobelin Person earned merit in its restoration and renovation.

Much more important, however, is the reform of the Böddeken monastery that he successfully carried out in 1408/09. Soon after the translation of the relics of Saint Liborius in 836 from Le Mans to Paderborn south of Paderborn, the canonical monastery founded by Saint Meinolf was completely ruined at the end of the 14th century. On behalf of and with the support of Wilhelm von Berg , Elekt of the Hochstift Paderborn , he transferred the Augustinian Canons from Zwolle in the Netherlands .

In the period from 1409 to 1411 he was in dispute with the Benedictine monks of the Paderborn Abdinghof monastery . In 1410 he traveled to Rome and visited the tomb of Urban VI. In the years 1411 to 1418/21 he was first canon and later dean at Marienstift in Bielefeld Neustadt, where he reformed the statutes. In 1417 he completed his music treatise and on June 1, 1418, the Universal Chronicle Cosmidromius, which was provisionally completed in 1406 . The latter work is divided into six ages . For the description of the older history he used older sources, some of which, such as the Annales Patherbrunnenses, have now been lost. However, according to his statements, he told contemporary history according to eyewitness reports and from his own experience. Above all, this last, independent part of his world history is historically valuable and provides extensive information partly about his Westphalian homeland, partly about the church conditions at that time. In the work he also criticized the conditions prevailing at the time. On January 15, 1421 he made his will in Böddeken, where he died on November 17, 1421 and where he was buried.

Works

  • “Vita Sancti Meinulfi” (description of the life of Saint Meinolf), around 1415/1420
  • "Tractatus musicae scientiae", 1417
  • "Cosmidromius, hoc est Chronicon universale complectens re ecclesiae et reipublicae", 1418

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gobelin Person  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Colberg: Person, tapestry canvas. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VII, Col. 415 f.
personal data
SURNAME Person, tapestry canvas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Person, tapestry; Gobelinus Decanus; Gobelinus bilfeldensis; Gobelinus Paderbornensis; Persona, tapestry; Gobelinus from Paderborn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German world historian and church reformer
DATE OF BIRTH 1358
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn or the immediate vicinity
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1421
Place of death Böddeken near Paderborn