Libert Froidmont

Libert Froidmont

Libert Froidmont or (Latinized) Libertus Fromondus (also Libertus Fromundus / Fromond / Fromont ; * 3. September 1587 in Haccourt ( Liège ); † 27. October 1653 in Leuven ) was a Liege mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and Catholic theologian.

Life

Froidmont was educated by the Jesuits , joined the order and received a canonical at Tournai Cathedral . He had studied humanities at the Jesuit College in Liège and in 1604 philosophy at the University of Leuven . He then taught philosophy at St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp for three years . In 1609 he received a professorship in rhetoric at the University of Leuven and in 1614 he took over the professorship in philosophy. In 1628 he received his doctorate in theology. After Cornelius Jansen went to Ypres as bishop, Froidmont became professor of the theological faculty on January 28, 1637, in the same year he took over the rectorate of the Löwener Alma Mater and on September 9, 1638 he was appointed dean of the associated university church of St. Peter (Sint-Pieterskerk). Here he also found his final resting place.

Froidmont had a profound knowledge of the Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages. His interest in the atmospheric phenomena of his time let him deal with mathematics, meteorology and astronomy. Out of his religious self- image he still represented the Catholic, scholastic worldview of the earth in the beginning of the 17th century , whereby he made a name for himself through some counter-writings against the heliocentric worldview . He also made a polemical appearance against the Dutch Calvinist Gisbert Voetius and was considered a critic of René Descartes , with whom he had contact by letter. He also wrote a few commentaries on the scriptures that were published between 1653 and 1663 after his death.

Works

Meteorologicorum libri sex , 1627

• Coenae Saturnalitiae, variatae Somnio sive peregrinatione coelesti. Lion 1616
• Dissertatio de cometa anni 1618. Antwerp 1619
• Commentatio in Acta Apostolorum. no year
• Meteorologicorum libri sex. Antwerp 1627
• Labyrinthus sive de compositione continui. Antwerp, 1631
• Commentarii in libros Quaestionum naturalium Senecae. Antwerp, 1632
• Anti-Aristarchus sive orbis terrae immobilizes adversus Philippum Lansbergium. Antwerp 1634
• Vesta, seu Ant-Aristarchi vindex adversus Jac. Lanspergium, Philippi filium. Antwerp 1634
• Causae desperatae Gisberti Voetii, ministry calviniani, adversus spongiam Cornelii Jansenii episcope Yprensis crisis. Antwerp 1639
• Brevis anatomia hominis et Epistola Fromondi Liberti and Henrici Caleni ad patres Societatis. Lion 1641
• Conventus Africanus, sive disceplatio judicialis apud tribunal praesulis Augustini, enarratore Artemidoro Oneirocritico. 1641
• Augnstini Yprensis et Augustini Hipponensis de Deo omnes salvare volente homologia. no year
• Chrysippus sive de liberto arbitrio ad philosophos peripateticos. Lions 1644
• Collatio Antverpiensis ad Fetrum Aurelium. Lion 1647
• Vincentii Lenis theriaca adversus Dionysium Petavium, SJ theologum, et Antonium Richardum de libero arbitrio. Paris 1648
• Vincentii Lenis epistola prodroma gemella ad Dionysium Petavium et Antonium Richardum. Lions 1649
• Philosophiae christianae de anima libri quatuor. Lions 1649
• Antonii Richardi stratagema, quo bellum sui sociorumque defensivum ab erroribus Massiliensium transtulit in S. Augustini et episcopi Yprensis offensivum. 1650
• Lucerna Augustiniana, qua breviter et dilucide declaratur coneordia et discordia, qua duo nuper eximii doctores S. Th. Fuacenses conveniunt a caeteris hodie S. Augustini discipulis. 1650
• Emunctorium lucernae Augustinianae quo fuligines a quibnsdam aspersae emunguntur. no year

literature

• Heinrich Kellner:  Fromundus, Libertus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 145.
• Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers: The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. University Press , Cambridge, 1998, ISBN 0521537215 , Volume 2, p. 1428
• Pierre François Xavier De Ram, Edmond Henri Joseph Reusens: Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique. Ch. Peeters / H. Goemaere, Löwen / Brussels, 1866, vol. 3, p. 312 f. ( Online )