Paul Lang (Librarian)

Paul Lang (ius) (* 1470 in Zwickau , † probably after 1535) was a Benedictine - Monk in Bosau in Zeitz . There he worked as a librarian . He is counted among the humanists . In his writings he usually calls himself monachus Bozowiensis .

Live and act

Lang was enrolled at the University of Krakow in 1486 , but entered the Benedictine monastery in Bosau near Zeitz as early as 1487. There he worked as a librarian. The monastery already had its own bookbinding shop there. When purchasing books, Lang's historical and humanistic inclinations become apparent. He is considered to be the "representative of the Benedictine monastery humanism of his time". Lang undertook historical studies and wrote chronicles.

Johannes Trithemius subsequently included Lang in his Catalogus illustrium virorum Germaniae .

Works

• Chronicon Citizense (completed by hand in 1516; Zeitz Chronicle, focus on the Zeitz Diocese from 968). Printed in: Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores , Tom. I. 1726, pp. 1116-1291 ( online ).
• Chronicon Neumburgensis Ecclesiae (Naumburg Chronicle). Printed in: Scriptores rerum germanicarum praecipue Saxonicarum , Tom II. 1728, col. 1–102 ( online ).

literature

• Ch. Schöttgen: Life of the Posau monk Paul Langens. in: the same / G. Ch. Kreyssig: Diplomatic and curieuse review of the history of Upper Saxony, part 11, 1733, pp. 88–126 ( online ).
• Christoph Fasbender : Lang (Langius), Paul . In: Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520. Author's Lexicon , Vol. 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin + New York 2009–2013, Col. 3–12.
• Adalbert Horawitz:  Lang, Paul (chronicler) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 614-617.
• Rainer A. Müller:  Lang, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 543 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fasbender: Lang , 2009, Col. 4.