Michael of Prague

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Michael von Prag OCart (Latin Michael Pragensis , also Michael de Praga ; Czech Michal Pražský ; † September 27, 1401 ) was prior of the Carthusian monasteries of Prague , Aggsbach and Geirach in Lower Styria (now Slovenia ) and a visitor to the Upper German Order Province. He became known as the author of several Latin scripts.

Life

Michael's (German, maybe also Czech or Polish) origins and his year of birth are not known. He is mentioned for the first time in 1356 as prior of the Prague Charterhouse "Mariengarten" , where he is occupied in 1382 as vicar. At the same time he was the second visitor to the Upper German Order Province. From 1385 to 1387 he was prior of the Aggsbach Charterhouse. In 1387 he completed his most famous work, the so-called Prince's Mirror, in Prague . This is written in the form of a dialogue and presented to the Count Palatine and later Roman-German King Ruprecht III. from the house of Wittelsbach dedicated. The work was erroneously ascribed to Matthew of Krakow .

From 1391 Michael was the first visitor of the Upper German order province and prior of the Charterhouse "Domus Vallis sancti Maurittii" in Geirach. There he died on September 27, 1401.

Works

  • 1386: Remediarium abiecti prioris
  • 1387: De quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus pro erudicione principum ( Fürstenspiegel )
  • between 1387 and 1391: Dialogus de custodia virginitatis

literature

  • Jana Nechutová: The Latin Literature of the Middle Ages in Bohemia . Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20070-1 , p. 249f.
  • Franz Machilek: Church reforms of the 14th and 15th centuries Century . In: Winfried Eberhard and Franz Machilek (eds.): Church reform impulses of the 14./14. Century in East Central Europe . Böhlau-Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-26105-4 , p. 29
  • Wojciech Iwańczak: The Carthusian Michael from Prague . In: Sönke Lorenz (Ed.): Books, libraries and writing culture of the Carthusians . ISBN 3-515-08093-7 , pp. 83-92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Regesta Imperii
  2. The information on this is contradictory. After Wojciech Iwańczak: The Carthusian Michael from Prague . In: Sönke Lorenz (Ed.): Books, libraries and writing culture of the Carthusians . ISBN 3-515-08093-7 , p. 89, Michael dedicated it to Count Palatine Ruprecht II.
  3. Dedicated to its predecessor in the Aggsbach Charterhouse.