Gottschalk Hollen

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Gottschalk Hollen , Latinized Godescalcus Hollen, also Holem, Hollem, Holen, Hollen von Meppen, (* around 1411 in Körbecke (Möhnesee) near Soest ; † 1481 in Osnabrück ) was a German preacher and Augustinian monk .

Life

Hollen joined the order in Herford , studied from 1435 in Perugia and Siena and was then lecturer and preacher in the Osnabrück convent of his order. In 1456 he was district vicar of the Augustinians in Westphalia.

Hollen was a very popular preacher of his day, and some of his sermons appeared in print. In his sermons he let humanistic erudition flow, he quoted from ancient authors and from Petrarch . His popular sermons also gave very practical advice (for example, on building houses, legal questions or illness). He also recommends lay people to read the Bible and criticizes grievances in the Church.

In addition to printed works, a number of manuscripts are known. In 1514 a work by him, Opus de festis mobilis et astronomia clericali , is said to have appeared in Florence .

His Augustinian colleague Johannes Schiphower called him in his chronicle (Ed. Heinrich Meibom ) a brilliant talent, learned, astute and with an excellent memory.

Fonts

  • Praeceptorium divinae legis , 1481 (with six prints up to 1500 and afterwards, including Nuremberg 1497)
  • Sermones dominicales super epistolas , Haguenau 1517, 1520
  • Preceptorium domini Gotscalci hollen de ordine heremitarum sancti Augustini , Nuremberg 1503, digitized
  • Sermonum opus exquisitissimum , 2 volumes, Hagenau 1517, 1519/20, digitized
  • Willigis Eckermann (editor): Quinque quaestiones de indulgentiis , Analecta Augustiana, Volume 32, 1969, pp. 323-366

literature

  • Willigis Eckermann: Gottschalk Hollen. Life, Works and Sacraments , Cassiciacum 22, Würzburg: Augustinus-Verlag 1967 (also dissertation University of Freiburg 1965)
  • Rudolf Cruel History of German Sermons in the Middle Ages , Detmold 1879, p. 505 Archives
  • Florence Landmann: The preaching system in Westphalia in the last period of the Middle Ages , Münster: Aschendorffsche Buchhandlung 1900
  • Franz Stanonik :  Hollen, Gottschalk . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 758.
  • Adolar Zumkeller : The teachers of the spiritual life among the German Augustinians , in: S. Augustinus vitae spiritualis Magister II , 1959, pp. 290-303
  • Adolar Zumkeller: The inadequacy of human works among the German preachers of the late Middle Ages , Journal for Catholic Theology, Volume 81, 1959
  • Adolar Zumkeller: Manuscripts of works by the authors of the Augustinian Hermit Order in Central European Libraries , Würzburg: Augustinus-Verlag, 1966, Cassiciacum 20, pp. 119–122, 577
  • Adolar Zumkeller:  Hollen, Gottschalk. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 541 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hollen, Gottschalk. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1004-1004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Stanonik in the last years of the 14th century, as he describes an event in 1380 in a sermon that he himself claims to have heard 26 years later.
personal data
SURNAME Hollen, Gottschalk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollen, Gottschalcus; Hollen, Godescalcus; Holem, Gottschalk; Hollem, Gottschalk; Get, Gottschalk; Hollen from Meppen, Gottschalk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Augustinian preacher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1411
PLACE OF BIRTH Körbecke (Möhnesee) near Soest
DATE OF DEATH 1481
Place of death Osnabrück