Johannes de Indagine (Carthusian)

John de Indagine

Johannes de Indagine (also Johannes Indaginis , actually Johannes Bremer von Hagen ; * 1415 in Hattendorf near Stadthagen , † 1475 in Erfurt ) was a Carthusian monk , reform theologian and author of theological writings.

Life

Johannes de Indagine was born around 1415 in Hattendorf near Stadthagen in what is now Lower Saxony as Johannes Bremer , Brewer or Bräuer and enrolled in 1436 at the University of Erfurt to study both rights as Johannes Bremer von Hagen .

The Erfurt Charterhouse in a representation of its founding legend. Tempera on wood, around 1525

In 1440 he joined the Carthusian Order in the Erfurt Charterhouse . From 1454 to 1456 he was prior of the Eisenach Charterhouse . In 1457 he was called back to his home monastery in Erfurt as prior. From 1461 to 1464 he headed the Carthusian monasteries in Frankfurt (Oder) and Grabow near Stettin . In 1465 he returned to Erfurt again, this time as a simple monk, where he mainly devoted himself to theological studies and writing until his death.

Johannes Hagen also wrote several dietary writings, including the Tractatus de regimine sanitatis virorum spiritualium ac devotorum between 1451 and 1472 , a health regime known as the (Erfurt) Carthusian regime ( Regimen sanitatis ).

John acted as a counselor on theological and legal issues for bishops, princes and scholars. Theologians like Johannes von Wesel (1425–1481), Johannes von Dorsten (1420–1481) and the University of Erfurt also sought his advice.

He turned against abuses in church life and campaigned for the reform of the church and orders . At the end of his life he wrote: "The number of my works may be more than 500". Eighty volumes contain his Scriptural Commentaries on Scripture alone , but few of his writings have been printed.

literature

Joseph Klapper: The Erfurt Carthusian Johannes Hagen: a reform theologian of the 15th century . 2 volumes, St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1960 a. 1961
Erich Kleineidam : Indaginis, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 169 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Johannes de Indagine (Carthusian) in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Literature by and about Johannes de Indagine in the catalog of the German National Library
Rolf Schönberger (Ed.): Iohannes de Indagine OCart in Alcuin, the Regensburg Infothek of Scholasticism
Portrait of Johannes Indagine (Bremer von Hagen) in the digital portrait index

Individual evidence

^ Helge bei der Wieden : The Radiation of the Reformation: Contributions to the Church and Everyday Life in Northwest Germany . In: Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Volume 43, V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, p. 21, ISBN 978-3-89971-814-0
↑ Manfred Peter Koch: The 'Erfurt Carthusian Regimen'. Studies on the dietary literature of the Middle Ages. Medical dissertation Bonn 1969, new print Salzburg 1997 (= Analecta Cartusiana. Volume 141).
↑ Gundolf Keil , Jürgen Kiefer: The 'Erfurt Carthusian Regimen'. Notes on the content, structure and author's question of a monastic health theory of the 15th century. In: Jürgen Kiefer (Hrsg.): Medicine and remedies. To acquire and transfer medical-pharmaceutical knowledge in Europe. Festschrift Ingrid Kästner. Aachen 2013 (= European Science Relations. Volume 5), pp. 217–259.
^ Gundolf Keil: Vegetarian. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 29–68, here: pp. 37–39.

personal data
SURNAME	Indagine, Johannes de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Indaginis, Johannes; Bremer von Hagen, Johannes; Bremer, Johannes; Indagina, Johannes ex; Hagen, Johannes von; Hagen, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Carthusian, prior, reform theologian and author of theological writings
DATE OF BIRTH	1415
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hattendorf (Auetal) near Stadthagen
DATE OF DEATH	1475
Place of death	Erfurt

[1] Helge bei der Wieden : The Radiation of the Reformation: Contributions to the Church and Everyday Life in Northwest Germany . In: Studies on the Church History of Lower Saxony , Volume 43, V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, p. 21, ISBN 978-3-89971-814-0

[2] Manfred Peter Koch: The 'Erfurt Carthusian Regimen'. Studies on the dietary literature of the Middle Ages. Medical dissertation Bonn 1969, new print Salzburg 1997 (= Analecta Cartusiana. Volume 141).

[3] Gundolf Keil , Jürgen Kiefer: The 'Erfurt Carthusian Regimen'. Notes on the content, structure and author's question of a monastic health theory of the 15th century. In: Jürgen Kiefer (Hrsg.): Medicine and remedies. To acquire and transfer medical-pharmaceutical knowledge in Europe. Festschrift Ingrid Kästner. Aachen 2013 (= European Science Relations. Volume 5), pp. 217–259.

[4] Gundolf Keil: Vegetarian. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 29–68, here: pp. 37–39.