Hermann Stangefol

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Hermann Fley called Stangefol (* 1575 in Schwerte ; † around 1655 ) was a Catholic priest, had a licentiate in theology, had the rank of Apostolic Protonotary and, as a canon, was a member of the chapter of the Church of St. Apostles in Cologne. He worked primarily as a historian, where he was rector of the University of Cologne from 1639 to 1641 .

He wrote the four-volume work Annales Circuli Westphalici with a description of Westphalia and its history from the early medieval beginnings up to 1654. Stangefols, according to Leopold Schütte, high-quality Annales , which Dietrich von Steinen wrongly reviled , are "not least because of their very precise references" and are “salvaged from overly harsh criticism for this reason alone”. In it, Stangefol often quotes Albert Krantz, Gerhard Kleinsorgen , David Chytraeus , Detmar Mülher, Heinrich von Hövel. Remarkably, the Lutheran Hermann Hamelmann and the monk Bernhard Witte with his Historia antiquae occidentalis Saxoniae seu nunc Westphaliae , written before 1520 but not printed until 1788, are missing .

Fonts

  • Annales circuli Westphalici, hoc est Opus Chronologicum Et Historicum rerum omnium, maxime notabilium sub hoc circulo gestarum, a Christo nato ad annum MDCLVI deductum et in IV partes distinctum. Cologne 1656: various printers (4 volumes) [digitized version: University and State Library of Münster 2011]

literature

  • Leopold Schütte : Tradition, research and presentation of the regional history of Westphalia in the modern age, in: Wilhelm Kohl (Hrsg.): Westfälische Geschichte, Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the end of the Old Empire. Düsseldorf 1983, pp. 15-33, esp. 22f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leopold Schütte : Tradition, research and presentation of the regional history of Westphalia in the modern age , in: Wilhelm Kohl (Hrsg.): Westfälische Geschichte , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the end of the Old Empire. Düsseldorf 1983, p. 21 ff .: "Of the older works, the works by Witte, Stangefol and von Steinen are particularly valuable and important, most of which are quite faithful to the sources and often reproduce passages from them verbatim."
  2. ↑ Bernd Kirschbaum: Gerhard Kleinsorgen (1530–1591). Books on demand, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-2423-6 .
  3. ↑ Annales Circvli Westphalici… Digital collections of the University and State Library of Münster, accessed on August 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Stangefol, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fley called Stangefol, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and rector of the University of Cologne (1639–1641)
DATE OF BIRTH 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords
DATE OF DEATH around 1655