Johannes Vervaux

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Johannes Vervaux (* 1586 in Lorraine ; † September 15, 1661 in Munich ) was a German Jesuit , historian and confessor of Maximilian I of Bavaria .

Life

Vervaux came from Lorraine, had entered the Jesuit order as a priest and had worked as rector in Trier. In 1631 he came to Munich at the request of Elisabeth , Maximilian I's wife, and served as her confessor. After her death in January 1635 and Adam Contzen's death in June of the same year, he succeeded him as confessor of the elector. Like his predecessors Johann Buslidius and Contzen, Vervaux not only served as a pastor, but also as an advisor and expert on questions of denominational politics. Maximilian also used the French-speaking Jesuit in his French diplomacy, for example in 1639 for negotiations with French envoys in Switzerland and in 1645 for a mission to Paris to Cardinal Mazarin . Vervaux advocated in his consultancy work for the sake of peace concessions to the Protestants . He also took this view towards intransigent friars such as the Dillingen theologian Heinrich Wangnereck , which earned him a papal publication ban on this issue. The tensions with the Curia also formed the background for the difficulties in publishing his historical work Boicae Gentis Annalium Pars III : Maximilian had appointed Vervaux court historiographer at the end of the Thirty Years War and Vervaux had fulfilled his task in 1653, two years after the death of the Elector . However, the work could not appear until 1662 after lengthy negotiations with the order's leadership in Rome under the name of the late Chancellor Johann Adlzreiter , i.e. not as a publication by a Jesuit. The third part of the Boicae Gentis , written from intimate knowledge, deals exclusively with the reign of Maximilian I and has a high source value, for example in the representation of the prince's religious practice. It was here that Monita paterna was published for the first time , Maximilian's paternal admonitions to his son and heir to the throne Ferdinand Maria in the style of a prince's mirror . The text can be dated to 1639 and it is very likely that Vervaux himself was the author.

Fonts

  • Boicae Gentis Annalium Pars III: Idea boni principatus ex vita, rebus gestis et virtutibus Maximiliani, utriusque Bavariae et Palatinatus Superioris ducis, SRI archidapiferi et electoris, comitis Palatini Rheni, Leuchtenbergiae landgravii etc. Munich 1662.

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Remarks

  1. ^ With Heinrich Reusch: Vervaux, Johannes. In: ADB 39 (1895), p. 638 the year of birth 1585 is given; the information 1586 follows Andreas Kraus (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte. Volume II. , Munich 1988, p. 1391; the exact date of death according to Reusch.
personal data
SURNAME Vervaux, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, historian and confessor of Maximilian I of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1661
Place of death Munich