Innocent Giesel

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Innozenz Giesel: Copy of a portrait from the 17th century

Innocent Gieselmann ( Ukrainian Інокентій Ґізель * to 1600 in Königsberg , Prussia ; † November 18 . Jul / 28. November  1683 greg. In Kiev , Hetmanat ) was a historian, Archimandrite of Kiev-Pechersk monastery as well as a professor and rector of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy .

Life

Innozenz Giesel came from a German Protestant family in East Prussia.

In Kiev he converted to the Orthodox faith and became a monk . At the end of the 1630s he studied at the Kiev Academy of Petro Mohyla . From 1640 to 1642 he headed the school of the Hoszcza monastery . The academy sent Innozenz Giesel to other cities for further training, but it is unclear where he went (Königsberg, Lemberg , Rostock ?) And whether he studied law or history in addition to theology and philosophy .

From 1645 he taught philosophy at the Mohyla Academy. Since 1645 he may have headed a monastery in Dziatłowiczy, and from 1646 a monastery in Kiev. That year he became rector of the academy. He took part in the election of Sylvester Kossów as the new Metropolitan of Kiev . In 1646 he had a theological argument with the Catholic Jesuit Czychowski about the filioque and other questions. In 1649 he published this under the title Colloquium Kioviense .

In 1650 he became Igumen of the Cyrillic Monastery in Kiev, in 1652 of the Nikolaikloster. In 1656 he became archimandrite (general head) of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra . Metropolitan Sylvester sent him to Moscow to see Tsar Alexei I to clarify canonically disputed questions between the Metropolis of Kiev and the Patriarchate of Moscow . He was honored by Alexei for his advocacy for Russian Orthodoxy.

In 1657, after Sylvester's death, he was proposed as a candidate for the Metropolitan, but was not elected and remained archimandrite of the cave monastery until his death.

Works

Innocent wrote a philosophical ( Opus totius philosophiae ), a theological ( dispute about God ... ) and a polemical work against the United and Catholic Church. Other texts ascribed to him are most likely not from him ( Peace of Man with God , Paterik of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra , a Catholic Catechism, a Summa on Thomas Aquinas and the influential Synopsis of the Kiev Empire on the history of Lesser Russia , with a description of the ancient unity of the " Russian peoples "). Innocent wrote his texts exclusively in Latin or Polish and, according to current research, was not able to write extensive texts in fluent, error-free Russian or Church Slavonic.

Web links

Commons : Innozenz Giesel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe - Kiev, EDUCATION AND SCIENCE ; accessed on December 23, 2015
  2. ↑ a b biography of Innozenz Giesel (M. Korzo, B. Florija) on pravenc.ru ; accessed on December 23, 2015
  3. ↑ Innocent (Giselle), Archimandrite of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra  ( 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. on the website of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra; accessed on December 23, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ru.kplavra.kiev.ua  
personal data
SURNAME Giesel, Innocent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гизель, Иннокентий (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian, Archimandrite of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, and professor and rector of the Kiev Mohyla Academy
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1683
Place of death Kiev