Hieronymus Ambrosius Long Coat
Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel (born November 24, 1641 in Augsburg ; † November 5, 1718 , ibid) was a German Catholic priest and scholar from the Augsburg patrician family Langenmantel from RR, who, in addition to theology and natural sciences, also dealt with history and various foreign languages .
Live and act
Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel came from the old Augsburg patrician family of the same name and was the son of Augsburg mayor Octavian Langenmantel (1614–1689) and his wife Anna Maria Catharina Imhoff (* 1615). He studied at the University of Ingolstadt , first became a secular priest, later a canon at the collegiate monasteries St. Peter am Perlach and St. Moritz zu Augsburg. Several of his brothers also held the office of Augsburg mayor or city caretaker.
As a canon to St. Peter in Augsburg, he donated the miraculous image of Mary untying the knot there in 1700 , which today is particularly venerated by Pope Francis and through him also gained fame in South America. It is said to be related to a family event of Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel. His grandfather Wolfgang Langenmantel (1586–1637) was about to separate from his wife Sophia Rentz (1590–1649) and therefore visited the Jesuit father Jakob Rem in Ingolstadt . Father Rem prayed in front of a portrait of Mary and said: "In this religious act I lift the bond of marriage, untie all the knots and straighten it." Then peace returned between the married couple, the separation did not take place and Langenmantel later had a memory commissioned the picture of the “knot loosener”.
On April 5, 1681 he was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a respondent at the University of Tübingen and wrote papers on optics, poisons and anatomy: Microscopii Tontoniani fabrica (1688), De avoid narcotica virtute praedito (1688), Circa Salamandrum (1688) and De ossibus Elephantum (1689). He was also a member of the Fruitful Society , called "The Few".
Langenmantel was in contact with many famous contemporaries, such as the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), whom he had met in Rome and with whom he was close friends, the astronomer and calendar maker Gottfried Kirch (1639–1710), the Zwickau high school rector and historian Christian Daum (1612–1687) and with the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)
Various theological works were translated from other languages into German by Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel and published, among others. a. those by Paulo Segneri (1624–1694), and by Louis Maimbourg (1610–1686), as well as the novel “The Crowned Innocence” or “The Life of the Pious Hirlandin ” by Father René de Ceriziers SJ (1603–1662). He also wrote a number of Latin biographies for the Augsburg mayors.
literature
- Wilhelm Hess : long coat, Hieronymus Ambrosius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 671.
- Karl Goedeke : Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1887, vol. 3, p. 260 .
Web links
- Biographical website in the Bavarian literature portal
- Publications by and about Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel in VD 17 .
- Website on the history of the Church of St. Peter am Perlach, with a mention of Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source for the exact dates of life
- ^ Genealogical page on the parents and grandparents of Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel
- ↑ On the donation of the miraculous image of “Maria Unto the Knot” ( Memento of the original from September 5, 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.
- ↑ On the history of the miraculous image "Maria Looser of the Knot"
- ↑ Source for inclusion in the Leopoldina
- ↑ Review of a biography of Kirchner, with a note on the letter contact with Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel (almost at the bottom of the page) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Source on correspondence with Gottfried Kirch
- ↑ Source on correspondence with Christian Daum
- ^ Source on correspondence with Leibnitz
- ↑ On Paolo Segneri ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ To the German book edition of the novel
- ^ To the Jesuit René de Ceriziers
- ↑ On the translation of the novel by Langenmantel
- ^ Source of the publication on the Augsburg mayors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Long coat, Hieronymus Ambrosius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Least of all, the (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic priest and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1641 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1718 |
| Place of death | augsburg |