Heinrich Canisius

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Title page of a work on canon law by Heinrich Canisius (1629)

Heinrich Canisius (* 1557 in Nijmegen , Spanish Netherlands ; † September 2, 1610 in Ingolstadt ) was a university professor, lawyer, historian and hagiographer .

Life

He came from Nijmegen in the Netherlands and his father was the brother of St. Peter Canisius .

Heinrich Canisius studied at the Universities of Leuven and Perugia ; at the former he did his doctorate utriusque juris (ecclesiastical and secular law).

On February 9, 1590 he was admitted to the University of Ingolstadt for his habilitation in canon law and he was employed as a lecturer from July of that year. In 1591 he was promoted to full professor of canon law and taught here until his death. He served eight times as rector and once as pro-rector of the university.

Heinrich Canisius suffered a stroke on August 21, 1610 while attending a holy mass . This left him paralyzed and unable to speak until his death on September 2 of that year. He was unmarried and bequeathed his fortune to the Marian Congregation in Ingolstadt , his books to the university and the Jesuit order .

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Title page of a historical work by Heinrich Canisius (1600); the chronicle of the bishops Victor von Tunnuna and Johannes von Biclaro

Canisius was a hardworking writer who published many books that were reprinted even after his death. At the time he was regarded as one of the leading canon lawyers in the German-speaking area. A complete edition of his canonical writings took place under the title "Opera quae de iure canonico reliquit" , 1629 in Leuven and again in 1663 in Cologne .

Heinrich Canisius was even more important because of his collection, evaluation and publication of historical manuscripts , which he published - mostly in the first edition. Six volumes of these were published in Ingolstadt between 1601 and 1604, under the title “Antiquae lectiones” . Many previously unknown or lost historical sources, often including medieval vitae of saints, were made accessible to science. One of them is, for example, the famous Vita of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , written by Dietrich von Apolda in the 14th century and first published in 1604 by Heinrich Canisius. The letters of the scholar Alcuin († 804) and the chronicle of the bishops Victor von Tunnuna († around 570) and Johannes von Biclaro († around 620) appeared in print for the first time.

The extensive “Antiquae lectiones” were revised and reorganized by the Protestant theologian and historian Jacques Basnage (1653–1723) and reissued in 7 volumes under the title “Thesaurus Monumentorum ecclesiasticorum et historicorum” (Antwerp from 1725).

The historian Andreas Kraus (1922–2012) sees Heinrich Canisius as an outstanding publicist of Bavarian historical sources.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to other sources as early as 1548
  2. ↑ Digital scan of the 4th volume of the "Antiquae lectiones"
  3. ^ Bernhard Hertenstein: Joachim von Watt (Vadianus) - Bartholomäus Schobinger - Melchior Goldast: The preoccupation with the Old High German from St. Gallen in humanism and early baroque , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1975, p. 143, ISBN 3110842467 ; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Volker Honemann, Rudolf Suntrup: literary landscapes: writings on German-language literature in the east of the empire , Volume 11 of: Cultural change from the Middle Ages to the early modern times , Verlag Peter Lang, 2008, p. 173, ISBN 3631570783 ; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Website on the history of the Vita ( click on Leggi tutto )
  6. ↑ Ernst Tremp: Charlemagne and his scholars: on the 1200th year of Alcuin's death , 2004, p. 26 u. 27, ISBN 3906616657 ; (Detail scans)
  7. ^ Viktor von Tunnuna in the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, with mention of Heinrich Canisius
  8. ^ Biographical website on Jacques Basnage
  9. ↑ Biographical website on Heinrich Canisius with reference to the new edition by Jacques Basnage ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / deutsch-themen.de
  10. ^ Digital scan of volume 1 of the new edition by Jacques Basnage, 1725
  11. ↑ Andreas Kraus : Bavarian history: from the beginning to the present , CHBeck Verlag, 2004, p 262; ISBN 3406515401 ; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Canisius, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION University professor, lawyer, historian and hagiographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1557
PLACE OF BIRTH Nijmegen , Spanish Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1610
Place of death Ingolstadt