Johannes Mauburnus

Johannes Mauburnus or Jan Mombaer , also known as Johannes von Brussels (* around 1460 in Brussels ; † January 1502 in Paris ), was a Dutch Augustinian canon , theologian and author of the edification.

Live and act

He attended the cathedral school in Utrecht , where he learned grammar and Gregorian chant , among other things . He then joined the Augustinian canons of St. Agneten near Zwolle , which belonged to the Windesheim congregation . Here he wrote writings of edifying content, including Venatorium Sanctorum ordinis canonicorum regularium , Scala sacre communionis and the Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum, which has been considered his main work from the start . Nicolaus von Hacqueville, Abbot of Livry, asked Mauburnus to be entrusted with the management of a Windesheim embassy, ​​which had the task of reforming some monasteries in and around Paris. The General Chapter of the Windesheim Congregation granted this request and the delegation headed by Johannes Mauburnus succeeded in reforming and reorganizing the monasteries. Mauburnus died in early 1502 (according to another count 1503) as Abbot of Livry.

On the meaning of the rosetum

The Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum appeared from 1494 (possibly as early as 1491) to 1620 in at least five, possibly six, editions in Basel, Paris, Milan and Douai. This work not only influenced the reform movement in Windesheim, but was also known to Faber Stapulensis, a pioneer of the Reformation in France, the German reformer Martin Luther and Ignatius von Loyola , the founder of the Jesuit order . Faber Stapulensis recommended the Rosetum and its author, whom he knew personally and described as a friendly, pious person, to the editor of the Paris edition of 1510. Luther might have got to know the Rosetum in the Augustinian Hermitage in Erfurt, because he quoted it in his psalm lectures from 1513. A morning prayer from the Rosetum is the source for Luther's morning blessing . Ignatius von Loyola suspects that he received suggestions for the design of pious exercises from the Rosetum , which later found their way into his spiritual exercises .

Works

• Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum . Peter van Os, Zwolle 1494 ( digitized version )

literature

• Johannes Donndorf: The Rosetum of Johannes Mauburnus. A contribution to the history of piety in the Windesheim monasteries (In: Yearbooks of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt , New Series, Issue 48, pp. V-XI, 1-125; Erfurt 1929)