Jeremias Drexel
Jeremias Drexel SJ (Latin Hieremias Drexelius ; born August 15, 1581 in Augsburg , † April 19, 1638 in Munich ) was a German Jesuit and a successful author of the Counter-Reformation .
Life
Jeremias Drexel comes from a Lutheran family in Augsburg , but converted to Catholicism in his youth. Until 1595 he attended the Jesuit grammar school in Augsburg, and in 1598 he was accepted into the Jesuit order. After the novitiate he studied theology and philosophy in Ingolstadt and was ordained a priest in 1610. He spent the following years as a teacher at the Jesuit grammar schools in Munich and Augsburg until he was appointed court preacher to Duke Maximilian I in Munich in 1615 , where he was to remain until his death.
Drexel's edification pamphlets, all written in Latin, achieved a popularity that we can hardly understand during the Thirty Years' War . According to Augustin de Backer - Carlos Sommervogel , Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus , 158,000 of his Latin books were printed in Munich alone in 1620–38, quite apart from numerous other print locations at home and abroad as well as translations into eight foreign languages. All works were also published in contemporary German versions by Joachim Meichel . In contrast to other militant counter-Reformation propagandists such as Gretser and Vetter , his books are characterized by absolute objectivity and avoidance of any polemics.
Drexel was an ardent proponent of the witch hunt and an admirer of Martin Delrio . In one of his last works, Gazophylacium Christi Eleemosyna , he wrote in 1637 that it was the duty of the rulers to eradicate "this kind of weed". He did not accept the fact that innocent people could also be punished through the practice of witch trials, nor did he accept the objection that despite decades of witch persecution, their number had obviously not decreased. Rather, for him the fact that the authorities had "so many thousands of this infernal mob" burned was proof enough that witches and "fiends" actually existed.
Complete edition
Opera omnia . Frankfurt / M .: Nice weather 1680 (the complete editions published before 1680 are still incomplete)
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Drexel (Drexl, Träxl, Drechsel), Jeremias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1383.
- Heribert Breidenbach: The emblematic Jeremias Drexel . Diss. Univ. of Illinois 1970
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Jeremias Drexel (1581-1638) , in: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Vol. 2. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9012-2 , pp. 1368-1418 (list of works and references)
- Heribert Gauly : The simple eye. The teaching of Jeremias Drexel on the <recta intentio> . Mainz 1962
- Wilhelm Kratz: Drexel, Jeremias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 119 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl Pörnbacher: The earthly <Wolredenheit> of Jeremias Drexel , in: Yearbook of the Historisches Verein Dillingen 83 (1981), pp. 73-82
Web links
- Literature by and about Jeremias Drexel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jeremias Drexel in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Jeremias Drexel in VD 17 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Italo Michele Battafarano: Spee not with Drexel. On the strategy of knowing nothing about the Cautio Criminalis . In: Working group of the Friedrich Spee societies in Düsseldorf and Trier (ed.): Spee year book . 3rd year. Spee, 1996, ISSN 0947-0735 , pp. 105 ff . ( historicum.net [PDF; 728 kB ; accessed on September 19, 2012]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drexel, Jeremias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Writer of edification of the Counter Reformation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1581 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1638 |
| Place of death | Munich |