Gaspar Jongelinus

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Gaspar Jongelinus (* 1605 in Antwerp ; † 1669 ; also Gaspar Jongelincx ) was a theologian and historian who stood out particularly through his work on the history of the Cistercian order .

In Antwerp he entered the order, but soon came to the Altenberg Abbey near Cologne. He was Abbot of Disibodenberg from 1640 to 1642 . After a reign of only two years, he left this office to Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz and became abbot in Eusserthal until this monastery came into the possession of the (Lutheran) Elector of the Palatinate in 1648. Emperor Ferdinand III. provided him with benefits in the Hungarian Raba and appointed him (after the publication of his Catalogus Palatinorum ) as imperial historiographer and "Historiographus Regni Hungariae" with an annual salary.

From 1650 to 1659 he was responsible for the Eisenstadt parish and later also the Raab canonics.

In 1659 he moved back to his native Antwerp, where he died in 1669. His greatest work are the ten-volume Notitiae abbatiarum Ordinis Cisterciensis per orbem universum (Cologne 1640), in which he describes the origin and development of the individual Cistercian monasteries. He also published on the Order of Calatrava and wrote a list of all Cistercians (Purpura divi Bernardi ...) who were raised to the rank of Pope or Cardinal.

Works (selection)

  • Notitiae Abbatiarum Ordinis Cistertiensis per Orbem Universum, Libros X. Complexa ... , Coloniae Agrippinae: Henning, 1640.
  • Purpura Divi Bernardi, Repraesentans Elogia et Insignia Gentilitia, tum Pontificum tum Cardinalium, nec non Archiepiscoporvm et Episcoporum qui Assumpti ex Ordine Cistertiensi in Sacra Romana Ecclesia floruerunt, Cologne, 1644.
  • Catalogus Palatinorum [et] Iudicium ejusdem Regni , 1659.

literature

  • Louis J. Lekai, History and Work of the White Monks: The Order of the Cistercians. Edited by Ambrosius Schneider, Cologne, 1958, p. 327, note 77.

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SURNAME Jongelinus, Gaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jongelincx, Gaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 1669