Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (* in Gades ; † around 70 AD) was a Roman writer.
Columella lived mostly in Italy and owned an estate near Rome . It is believed that he served in the Roman army and was stationed in Syria and Cilicia .
At the time of Emperor Claudius, Columella wrote a work on agriculture, horticulture and arboriculture in twelve books ( Rei rusticae libri duodecim ); Along with Cato's De agri cultura, it is probably the most important surviving work on agriculture from Roman times. The second book of a work called De arboribus ( About Trees ) has also survived . Overall, this work was probably much smaller than the main work and was probably created earlier.
Lore history
Columella's writings were not widely used in medieval Europe. Are from the 9./10. Century only one manuscript each from Corbie (today St. Petersburg , Russian National Library , Ms. Fv1) and Fulda (today Milan , Biblioteca Ambrosiana Cod. L.85. Sup.).
Petrus de Crescentiis quoted Columella in the 13th century, around 20 codices are known from the 15th century, which go back to a manuscript discovered by Poggio Bracciolini , which has, however, been lost.
Around 1470 Julius Pomponius Laetus wrote a composite manuscript with various texts, including Ovid and Serenus Samonicus , at the beginning of which he put Columellas De re rustica . The codex has been in the library of the British Museum since 1753 .
Francesco di Antonio del Chierico created an elaborately illuminated manuscript for the Biblioteca Aragonese around 1488 , which is now in the University Library of Valencia. In 1491, the Premonstratensian Abbot Heinrich Österreicher († 1505) von Schussenried completed the first German translation, which was intended for Count Eberhard im Bart von Württemberg-Urach and his wife Barbara Gonzaga . It is located in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart (Cod. Cam. Et oec. 2 ° 1).
Prints were made in Venice in 1472 by Nicolas Jenson and in 1482 in Reggio nell'Emilia by Bartholomaeus de Bruschis in a collective edition of agricultural writers, which was essentially a reprint of Jenson's edition.
Honors
The plant genus Columellia Ruiz & Pav. From the Columelliaceae family is named after him .
Text editions and translations
- Columella: De re rustica . 2 volumes, trans. by Heinrich Oesterreicher, ed. by Karl Löffler . Litterar. Association in Stuttgart, Tübingen 1914. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Columella: Twelve Books on Agriculture. Book of a stranger on tree cultivation . Latin-German. 3 vol., Ed. and over. by Will Richter . Artemis-Verl., Munich 1981–1983, with name and word index in Vol. 3 by Rolf Heine .
- Robert H. Rodgers (Ed.): L. June Moderati Columellae Res rustica. Incerti auctoris Liber de arboribus . Clarendon Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-957119-2 (Critical Edition) (SCBO)
literature
- Alfred Kappelmacher : Junius 104 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 1054-1068.
- Manfred Fuhrmann : Columella. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 1251.
- PDA Harvey: Columella in the Middle Ages . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 3, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7608-8903-4 , column 67 f.
- Wilhelm Kaltenstadler : Work organization and management system in the Roman agricultural writers (Cato, Varro, Columella). G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-437-50218-2 .
- Manfred Landfester: Columella, Lucius Iunius Moderatus. In: Manfred Landfester (ed.): History of ancient texts. Lexicon of authors and works (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 2). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02030-7 , p. 183 f.
- Marlis Oehme: The Roman villa economy. Investigations into the agricultural writings of Catos and Columella and their representation in Niebuhr and Mommsen. Habelt, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-7749-2319-1 .
- Will Richter : The liber de arboribus and Columella. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7696-1443-7 .
- Claudia Schindler : Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus Collumella). De re rustica. In: Christine Walde (Ed.): The reception of ancient literature. Kulturhistorisches Werklexikon (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 7). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02034-5 , Sp. 263-270.
Web links
- Publications on Columella in RI-Opac
- Literature by and about Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella in the catalog of the German National Library
- Digitized incunabulum editions with works by Columella
- Web version of an exhibition from 2002 in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana
- Larry J. Swain: Columella (PDF of the article for Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: C , ed. Thomas N. Hall; 75 kB)
Remarks
- ↑ Ms. Sloane 777, fol. 1-9; Catalog page with illustrations.
- ↑ BH Ms. 54; Homepage ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Europeana Regia; Title page
- ↑ Information on manuscripts in the manuscript census
- ^ Jürgen Glocker: Austrians, Heinrich OPraem. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VII, Col. 110-113.
- ^ Alfredo Cioni: Bruschi. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 14: Branchi-Buffetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1972.
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
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SURNAME | Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gades (today Cádiz , Spain) |
DATE OF DEATH | at 70 |
Place of death | uncertain: Taranto , Sicily |