Michael Pexenfelder
Michael Pexenfelder (* 1613 in Arnstorf (then still Amstorff ) in the Lower Danube District ; † 1685 ) was a Bavarian Jesuit , rhetorician and lexicographer .
Life
Pexenfelder devoted himself to the sciences in Passau and entered the Jesuit order. In Landshut he taught rhetoric for 22 years.
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He is best known for his work Apparatus eruditionis tam rerum quam verborum per omnes artes et scientias , published by Michael and Friedrich Endter in Nuremberg in 1670 , an early modern outline of knowledge ( encyclopedia ) comprising one hundred chapters with a detailed presentation of the specialist vocabulary. The work dedicated to Elector Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria was in the tradition of De utraque (also De duplici ) copia rerum ac verborum commentarii duo , Paris 1512, by Erasmus of Rotterdamand found use in Latin schools of the 17th century, especially Jesuit high schools. It appeared in several editions in 1680, 1687, 1704, 1744 and 1798.
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Pexenfelder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Pexenfelder
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/pexenfelder.html
- ↑ http://www.enzyklopaedie.ch/liste/frame.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pexenfelder, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian religious chaplain (Jesuit), rhetorician and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1613 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amstorff |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1685 |