Godefridus Henschenius

Godefridus Henschenius, contemporary engraving

Title page of the 1st volume of the Acta Sanctorum issued by the Bollandists , 1643 (with naming of Henschenius as co-author)

Godefroid Henschen or Godefridus Henschenius (born January 21, 1600 in Venray ; † September 12, 1682 in Antwerp ) was a Jesuit and co-editor of Acta Sanctorum .

biography

Godefridus Henschenius joined the Society of Jesus in 1619 . He distinguished himself primarily through his knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages as well as in church history.

In 1635, his teacher Jean Bolland called him in to work on the monumental work he had begun for the Acta Sanctorum . At the invitation of Pope Alexander VII and the Jesuit General Goswin Nickel , Henschenius traveled to Rome in 1660 on behalf of the sick Father Bolland to collect material for the Acta Sanctorum in the local libraries . He was accompanied by his younger brother Daniel Papenbroeck , who also kept a diary about the two-year trip, which was only published in German in 2002 and is of great religious and ethnological value.

After Bolland's death in 1665, Henschen continued work on the Acta Sanctorum together with Father Papenbroeck .

Works (selection)

Acta Sanctorum , together with Johannes Bolland the volumes January and February, with Daniel Papenbroeck the volumes March and April.
De episcopatu Traiectensi, episcoporum regumque Franciae iis coaevorum chronologia, et populis dioecesi illi subiectis diatriba (1653)
De tribus Dagobertis Francorum regibus (1655)
Brevis notitia Galliarum et Belgii (1658)
Ad vitam S. Petri Thomasii Ordinis Carmelitani Commentarius praevius Godefridi Henschenii . In the S. (Ed.): Philippe de Mézières (1366): Vita S. Petri Thomasii ex Ordine Fratrum B.mae Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo, Episcopi Pactensis, & Coronensis, Archiep. Cretensis, & Patriarchae Constantinopolitani, ac Legati Apostolici . Antwerp 1659, pp. 2-45

literature

Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique: Biographie Nationale de Belgique . T. 9. Bruxelles, 1886-87 (J.-J. Thonissen).

Web links

Commons : Godefridus Henschenius - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hippolyte Delehaye: Godfrey Henschen . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
Homepage of the Societé des Bollandistes

Individual evidence

^ "Art monuments between Antwerp and Trient", The travel description of the two Bollandists Henschenius and Papenbroeck, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2002

personal data
SURNAME	Henschenius, Godefridus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henschen, Godefroid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jesuit and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venray
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1682
Place of death	Antwerp

[1] "Art monuments between Antwerp and Trient", The travel description of the two Bollandists Henschenius and Papenbroeck, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2002