Nicolas Jamin

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Nicolas Jamin (* 1711 or 1730 in Dinan ; † February 9, 1782 in Paris ) was a French Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maurus and a theological author who was highly regarded at the time .

Life

Jamin was a leading figure in the Congregation for Masons. He belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, where he was prior from 1766 to 1769 .

As a theological author, he fought against the anti-religious positions of the French Enlightenment . At the same time, through his probabilistic moral theology, he also attracted the opposition of the Jansenists , who temporarily enforced a ban on his main work in France. This, the Pensées théologiques, relatives aux ereurs du temps ("Theological thoughts in relation to the errors of the time"; Paris 1769), was nevertheless reprinted about every two years until 1789 and until the 1820s and in the main European languages translated. The success of the book was the fact that his conversion of the young Prince William of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen was attributed to the Catholic Church.

Fonts

Title page of the Pensées , 1769
  • Pensées théologiques, relatives aux ereurs du temps , 1769 ( digitized ; German by Johann Jakob Hemmer , Mannheim 1770; by Augustinus Erthel , Fulda 1785)
  • Traité de la lecture chrétienne, dans lequel on expose des règles propres à guider les fidèles dans le choix des livres , 1774
  • Placide à Maclovie, sur les scrupules , 1774
  • Placide à Scholastique, sur la manière de se conduire dans le monde, par rapport à la religion , 1775
  • Histoire des fêtes de l'Église, et l'esprit dans lequel elles ont été établies , 1779 ( digitized ; German by Augustinus Erthel, Fulda 1786)

literature

Web links

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Wikisource: Nikolas Jamin  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ year of birth 1711 at VIAF and GND; 1730 often also in more recent literature (e.g. Plongeron 1974 ; Bauer 2010 ).
  2. ↑ Döring p. 288
  3. ↑ mauristes.org ; the priors of the Maurinians were each elected for three years.
  4. ↑ Bernard Plongeron: Théologie et politique au siècle des lumières (1770-1820) . Geneva 1973, p. 41
  5. ↑ Gerhard Bauer in: “Di Fernunft Siget.” The universal scholar Johann Jakob Hemmer (1733–1790) from the Electoral Palatinate and his work . P. 54
  6. ↑ The revised edition of his Pensées from 1772 preceded Jamin with the dedication letter from the translator Johann Jakob Hemmer to Prince Wilhelm in a French translation ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Gerhard Bauer in: “Di Fernunft Siget.” The universal scholar Johann Jakob Hemmer (1733–1790) from the Electoral Palatinate and his work . P. 236
personal data
SURNAME Jamin, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Benedictine and theological author
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinan
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1782
Place of death Paris