Jacobus Magdalius of Gouda

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Jacobus Magdalius von Gouda , also: Jakob or Gaudensis, Gudanus (* 1468/69 in Gouda (Netherlands) , † around 1520 in Cologne ), was a Dominican , theologian and poet .

Life

Jacobus Magdalius von Gouda received preparatory lessons at the Frater School or from the canons in the Stein monastery near Gouda. He joined the Dominican order in Haarlem and moved to Cologne in 1490, where he worked for a time as a confessor and possibly taught theology until his death. In 1490, as a member of the local order of preachers, he became a baccalaureus at the Cologne artist faculty . In 1495 he became a master. His instructions on poetry were influential (including Stichologia ).

Jacobus Magdalius mastered the Hebrew which was taught to him by a convert ; he also spoke the Greek language. Not only the command of the language, but also the knowledgeable text-critical handling of the Holy Scriptures shaped his reputation. If the canons of Windesheim had already tried to produce an improved text of the Bible for their private ecclesiastical use, he made even greater efforts to do so and made use of the exegetical work of the church father Jerome , Nikolaus von Lyra , Paulus Burgenfis , Reuchlins and others. Unlike his contemporary Johann Reuchlin , Magdalius rejected Jewish literature. In the Reuchlin dispute he stood - perhaps urged by his prior - on the side of Johannes Pfefferkorn , a baptized Jew and friend of the Cologne Dominicans. This strove to destroy the rabbinical literature .

Works

• Correctorium Bibliae cum difficilium quarundam dictionum luculenta interpretatione , Cologne 1500
• Erariu [m] aureum paetaru [m]: omnibus latin [a] e lingu [a] e cuiuscu [m] q [ue] etia [m] facultatis fuerint professoribus acco [m] modu [m] immo et o [mn] i [u] m poetaru [m] sine ipsis co [m] me [n] tarijs elucidatiuu [m]. - Cologne: Quentel, 1501. - Digitized edition
• Aerarium aureum poetarum , Cologne 1502
• Naumachia ecclesiastica , Cologne 1503
• Stichologia Gaudensis: cum carminibus diversis . - Cologne: Quentel, 1503. - Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Orationes saluberrime super infirmos & agonizantes dicende. , Quentell, Cologne 1515.
• Passionis do = || minice textus litteralis.cũ lucu || lentissima explanatõe. nemini # [que] nõ fructuosa.Per fratrẽ Jacobu # [m] || Magdaliũ Gaudensem ordinis Predicatorij.ex doctorum sen / || tentijs.miro quodã artificio.Grece Latine et Hebraice collecta. || . Quentel, Heinrich (Erben), Cologne 1516 ( digitized version )
• Passio magistralis DNJ Christi ex diversis ss. Ecclesiae doctorum sententiis postillata cum glossa interlineari b. Alberti M. , Cologne 1506
• Compendium Bibliae, in quo continenture 257 versus, quibus totus fere Bibliae textus comprehenditur , Cologne 1508, Wittenberg 1517
• Poetic writings in: Quétif-Échard II, 44 f.

literature

• Götz-Rüdiger Tewes: Magdalius, Jakob, from Gouda . In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520. Author's Lexicon , Vol. 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin + New York 2009–2013, Sp. 135–145.
• David J. Collins: Albertus, Magnus or Magus? Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages. In: Renaissance Quarterly 63, 2010, pp. 36-37. The author meticulously deals with the problem of the two "Jakob von Gouda" in the ADB and finally establishes that there is actually only one and the same person who has achieved everything that is presented separately in the two articles of the ADB.
• Ludwig Geiger:  Gouda, Jakob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 518 f.
• Jacob Cornelis van Slee :  Magdalius of Gouda, Jacobus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 50 f.
• Heinrich Grimm:  Jakob von Gouda. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 317 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Michael Tilly :  Jacobus Magdalius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1409.
• JH a Seelen: De Magdalii Jacobi Gaudensis laboribus biblicis corrigendae in primis versioni latinae Vulgatae impensis , Lübeck 1728
• GM Löhr: The Cologne Dominican humanist Jacobus M. Gaudanus and his Naumachia ecclesiastica. In: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum (AFP) 18, 1948, pp. 281-302

Web links

• Iacobus Magdalius Gaudensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Publications by and about Jacobus Magdalius von Gouda in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ H. Keussen: The register of the University of Cologne II . Bonn 1928, p. 268.
2. ^ Tewes: Magdalius , 2009, Sp. 135f.