Martin Lipsius

Martin Lipsius , actually Maarten Lips , (* before 1492 in Brussels ; † March 23, 1555 in Huy ( Brabant )) was a Burgundian Augustinian monk , humanist , prior of a nunnery and paternal great-uncle of Justus Lipsius .

Live and act

Born in Brussels at the end of the 15th century , he entered the Augustinian monastery, the Priorij van Sint-Maartensdal , in Leuven in 1510 , and later became a member of the Canonicus regularis order . Lipsius was friends with Erasmus of Rotterdam and regularly worked with him in his patristic studies. He dealt with the textual criticism of the Latin church fathers , especially Augustine . His letters suggest a high level of education and reading. He wrote some of his own works, such as “D. Hilarii Pictavorum episcopi lucubrationes, olim per Des. Erasm. Roterodanum emendata, nunc denuo vigilantissime et ad plura exemplaria per D. Martinum Lypsium collatae et rocognitae ”(1550).

Lipsius had numerous connections and contacts in the world of scholars, he fully represented the position of the humanist Erasmus and therefore had to endure many persecutions and inconveniences.

Nevertheless, his work found recognition. The Censura generalis before Volume X of the Löwener edition of Augustine, 1571 , shows what value was attached to his Augustine studies . Most recently, he was prior of a nunnery near Huy in Brabant.

Works (selection)

D. Hilarii Pictavorum episcopi lucubrationes, olim per Des. Erasm. Roterodanum emendata, nunc denuo vigilantissime et ad plura exemplaria per D. Martinum Lypsium collatae et rocognitae. Basil 1550

literature

F. Néve: M. Lipsius Savant Augustin, ami d'Erasme in the Revue Catholique. 1883, p. 839 ff.
Adalbert Horawitz : Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martinus Lipsius: a contribution to the scholarly history of Belgium. Carl Gerold's son, Vienna 1882 [1]
Arnoud Visser: Reading Augustine through Erasmus' Eyes: Humanist Scholarship and Paratextual Guidance in the Wake of the Reformation. Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Twenty-Eight, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008, p. 75 [2]

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Adalbert Horawitz: Lipsius, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 745.
↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, Johann Christoph Adelung, Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, Otto Günther (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon: Therein the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present, and themselves made known to the learned world, after their birth, life, remarkable stories, deaths and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. D - L. 2, Gleditsch, 1750, p. 1466

personal data
SURNAME	Lipsius, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lypsius, Martinus; Lipsius, Martinus; Lips, Maarten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian Augustinian monk
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1492
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brussels
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1555
Place of death	Huy

[1] Adalbert Horawitz: Lipsius, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 745.

[2] Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, Johann Christoph Adelung, Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, Otto Günther (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon: Therein the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present, and themselves made known to the learned world, after their birth, life, remarkable stories, deaths and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. D - L. 2, Gleditsch, 1750, p. 1466