Louis Maimbourg

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Portrait of Maimbourg from Ders .: Histoire Du Pontificat De Saint Leon Le Grand , Barbin, Paris 1687 (frontispiece)

Louis Maimbourg (born January 10, 1610 in Nancy , † August 13, 1686 in Paris ) was a Lorraine cleric who belonged to the Jesuit order from 1626 to 1681 , and a historian.

Histoire du pontificat de S. Grégoire-le-Grand

life and work

Maimbourg, born in Nancy, which was part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time, joined the Jesuit order on May 20, 1626, initially living in the Jesuit college that his wealthy parents had founded in Nancy. After a period of practice in Dijon from 1630 to 1634, he studied theology in Paris until 1636 and then at the Roman Gregoriana until 1638 . He was ordained in 1637 , taught rhetoric and philosophy at the Jesuit college in Rouen for the next ten years and made his profession on May 29, 1644 . From 1643 he was a preacher in Bourges , then moved to Paris to the Collège Clermont .

During this time he came into conflict with the Jansenists , especially because of their translation of the Bible, and wrote polemical writings from 1667 to 1673. When he vehemently opposed the dispute between Louis XIV and Pope Innocent XI. to use the Gallican articles for the king, the Pope, or his order general Juan Pablo Oliva , banished him from the Jesuit order in 1681. For his part, the king gave him a pension and the right to live in the Abbey of St-Victor in Paris.

Maimbourg became a historian of whom Voltaire regretted that he had been neglected too much, whereas Pierre Bayle sharply criticized his Histoire du Calvinisme , initially published under a pseudonym . But the name of the author soon became known and his books were banned in France from 1683. Maimbourg's Histoire du Luthéranisme , which is considered to be of little scientific importance, prompted his opponents to present comprehensive counter-works that were scientifically much longer lasting. In this case, the work of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff Commentarius historicus et apologeticus de Lutheranismo seu de reformatione is considered "for a long time to be fundamental to any preoccupation with the Reformation"; it was published in Leipzig from 1688 to 1692.

Several of his historical works (see the labeling below) were placed on the index of forbidden books by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in several decrees between 1680 and 1687 .

Works (selection)

  • La Méthode pacifique pour ramener sans dispute les protestans à la vraie foy sur le point de l'Eucharistie , Paris 1670. ( digitized version )
  • Traité de la vraie parole de Dieu, pour réunir toutes les sociétez chrétiennes dans la créance catholique , Paris 1671. ( digitized version )
  • Histoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance jusqu'à sa fin, avec l'origine et le progrès de l'hérésie des sociniens , Paris 1673. ( digitized version )
  • Histoire de l'hérésie des iconoclastes et de la translation de l'Empire aux Français , Paris 1675. ( digitized version )
  • Histoire des croisades pour la délivrance de la Terre-Sainte , Paris 1676. ( digitized version )
  • Histoire du schisme des Grecs , Paris 1677. ( digitized version )
  • Histoire du grand schisme d'Occident , Paris 1678. ( digitized version ) (on the index 1680)
  • Histoire de la décadence de l'Empire après Charlemagne et des différends des Empereurs avec les papes au sujet des investitures et de l'indépendance , Paris 1679. ( digitized ) (on the index 1687)
  • Histoire du Luthéranisme , Paris 1680. ( digitized version ) (on the index 1680)
  • Histoire du Calvinisme , Paris 1682. ( digitized ; digitized ). Reprint: Hildesheim 2019 (Olms Verlag). With an introduction edited by Andreas Scheib.
  • Histoire de la Ligue , Paris 1683 ( digitized version of the 1686 edition )
  • Traité historique de l'établissement et des prérogatives de l'Église de Rome et de ses évesques , Paris 1685. ( digitized ) (on the index 1685)
  • Histoire du pontificat de S. Grégoire-le-Grand , 2 vols., Paris 1686. ( vol. 1, digitized , vol. 2 ) (on the index 1687)
  • Histoire du pontificat de saint Léon-le-Grand , Paris 1687. ( Vol. 1, digitized version )

literature

  • Louis Maimbourg, jésuite sorti de la Compagnie , in: Louis Ellies Dupin : Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques , Vol. XVII, Pierre Humbert, Amsterdam 1711, pp. 238–240. ( Digitized version )
  • Andreas Scheib: Introduction; in: Louis Maimbourg, Histoire du Calvinisme, Paris 1682. Reprint (= Pierre Bayle, Oeuvres Diverses, supplementary volume; with an introduction edited by Andreas Scheib., XV / 566 p.) Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2019. (link: http: / /www.olms.de/inhalt_pdf/9783487148571.pdf )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Peter Bayle: Critique générale de l'histoire du calvinisme de M r . Maimbourg , Pierre Le Blanc, Villefranche 1682 ( digitized ).
  2. ^ David Deming: Science and Technology in World History , Vol. 4: The Origin of Chemistry, the Principle of Progress, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution , McFarland, Jefferson 2016, p. 153.
  3. ↑ digitized version .
  4. ↑ Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele : Historical Consciousness and Historiography around 1700 , in: Wolfgang Breul, Jan Carsten Schnurr (Ed.): Historical Consciousness and Future Expectation in Pietism and Awakening Movement . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, pp. 29–55, here: pp. 36 f.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Maimbourg, Théodore. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 572-573 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Maimbourg, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lorraine Jesuit and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1686
Place of death Paris