Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh

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Ringelbergs Lucubrationes ... , Basel 1541, in which the word kyklopedeia appears for the first time in the title.

Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg (h) ( Latinized Joachim (us) Fortius Ringelberg (ius) Antverpianus (Andouerpianus) ; * around 1499 in Antwerp ; † after January 1, 1531) was a Flemish polymath - humanist, mathematician and astrologer. He was the first to put a term in the title of a work that corresponds to the later word encyclopedia :

"Lucubrationes, vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia : nempe liber de Ratione studii, utriusque linguae Grammatice, Dialectice, Rhetorice [,] Mathematice, & sublimioris Philosophiae multa" (Basel 1538)

A one-volume work in Latin, usually citing shorter Lucubrationes, vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia or simply as Kyklopaideia . The second edition from 1541 had a slightly different title and is therefore usually cited briefly as Kyklopedeia .

There is evidence that Ringelberg enrolled at the University of Leuven on January 5, 1519 , but it is believed that he moved there as early as 1516 or 1517. He studied there under Petrus Curtius , soon afterwards he was presumably teaching in the now established Collegium Trilingue.

At the latest at the beginning of 1528 he left Leuven to undertake two long journeys, during which he taught, but also had his work printed: first went via Antwerp to Cologne , then Mainz , again Cologne, Heidelberg , Basel , Freiburg im Breisgau and Strasbourg ; from there via Mainz and Cologne back to Antwerp, where he arrived in April 1529.

A few months later he began his second trip to France: Via Leuven (August 3, 1529) he went to Paris (September – December 1529, where he found Andreas Hyperius as a student and admirer at the Calvi Collegium ), then to Orléans , Bourges and Lyon , where after January 1, 1531 it is lost track.

Since his stay in Basel he had visited Erasmus von Rotterdam several times , who must have valued him and wrote two epigrams for Ringelberg's Institutiones astronomicae .
Erasmus' secretary Nicolaas Kan, however, mocked Ringelberg's work in one of his epigrams, 1529.

  • “This adherence to the traditional ordering scheme while at the same time inserting modern disciplines is another typical phenomenon of the early modern encyclopedia. In his Lucubrationes Ringelberg, for example, combined the trivium with a quasi-modernist quadrivium of astronomy, arithmetic, cosmography and optics and added explanations on the divination and the fundamentals of natural science. " (Melanie Wald)
  • For word creations from the Greek (→ kyklopedeia ) there are [...] later, unquestionably dependent on Melanchthon evidence in Ringelberg, [...]. ( Carl Joachim Classen )
  • Ringelberg is said to have also built a ring-shaped sundial.

Other works

Around thirty works by Ringelberg are known, including one on pedagogy, De Ratione Studii. The works were printed many times in the 16th century - around 20 editions of the Rhetorica are known from this century. There were also about ten editions of "Collected Works" (Lucubrationes = nocturnal work):

  • Lucubrationes. Antwerp 1529.
  • Ioachimi Fortij Ringelbergij Andouerpiani Opera, quae proxima pagina enumerantur. Lyon, apud Gryphium, 1531 (reprinted by Nieuwkoop 1967); 1556.
  • Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia. Basel, 1538 ( online ), 1541, 1546 (only these three editions are complete).
  • Ioachimi Fortij Ringelbergij Andouerpiani Compendium de conscribendis uersibus. Lyon, Seb. Gryphius excud., 1531.
  • De formis dicendi; De periodis; De ratione studii; De usu vocum quae non flectuntur; Dialectica; Elegantiae; Elementa graeca; Rhetorica, schemes (= Liber de figuris ac vitiis orationis); Sententiae; Synonima; Arithmetica; Chaos mathematicum; Optice.

Cosmography:

  • Institutiones astronomicae: ternis libris contentae, quorum primus ...; cum annotationibus, et ind. Basileae: Valentin Curio, 1528. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Ioachimi Ringelbergii Antuerpiani Institutiones astronomicae ternis libris contentae. ... Cum annotationibus, & indice. Venice: Melchiorre Sessa, 1535.
  • Cosmographia; De tempore; Sphaera (also used as an introduction to the Institutiones ).

Astrology:

  • Astrologia, De somniis (= De interpretatione somniorum, De urina non visa, Geomantia, Horoscopus, Physionomia); Chaos, experimenta; De homine. (a mixture of physiology and philosophy).
  • Institutiones astronomicae teruis libri contentae quorum primus spherae ac mundi nature declarat. Basel 1528.
  • Opera Joachim Fortii Ring. Andoverpiani. Astrologia. de figuris geomantiae. In 'Ad divinationem', Ridicula sed jucunda quaedam vaticinia. Lyon: Sebastien Gryphe, 1531.
  • JF Ringelbergii sphaera ... Item eiusdem in tres libros institutionum astronomicarum prefatio. Antwerp; Basel 1541; Cologne 1550.
  • Ad divinationem. In: Opera. Lyon: J. Frelon, 1556; Lyon: A. Vincent, 1657.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wald, Melanie, [...] investigations on the Musurgia universalis by Athanasius Kircher, dissertation, 2005
  2. http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/GermLat/Acta/C Klassen.htm
  3. http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/research/collections/websters/r.shtml