Paul Merula

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Paul Merula

Paul Merula (also: Paulus van Merle ; born August 19, 1558 in Dordrecht , † July 20, 1607 in Rostock ) was a Dutch lawyer, historian and geographer.

Life

The son of Willem Merula and Jacoba Heermann had attended school in Dordrecht and Delft . On August 28, 1578 he enrolled at the University of Leiden and attended various universities abroad. In some cases he earned his living as a tutor and vice principal. He had done legal and literary studies with Jacques Cujas in Paris , at the University of Orléans and at the University of Bourges . He had continued this in Geneva, Basel and Strasbourg. In France he called himself Gulielmus Mismetius or Paul Guillaume for fear of anger because of his beliefs. (He was the great-nephew of Angelus Merula .)

In 1587 he worked as a lawyer at the court of Holland and in the following years worked on a manual on civil law, the civiele zaaken enz under the title Manier van procederen in de Provintiën van Holland, Zeeland and West-Vriesland. (Leiden 1592, The Hague 1619, 1631, 1681, Delft 1705, Leiden 1741 and 1784). After Justus Lipsius went to the University of Leuven in 1592, Merula was appointed extraordinary professor of history by the curators of the Leiden University on August 8, 1592, and on October 8, 1593, he took over the full professorship of the subject. At that time he worked on thousands of pieces for a Historia Belgica (History of Belgium), which mainly dealt with the war against the Spaniards and is known as a handwritten bequest.

After he was appointed librarian at the university library in Leiden on February 24, 1597, he was appointed historian of Gelderland on March 20, 1597 and historian of the States General on December 21, 1598. In this capacity he published multi-part historical volumes. In addition to his activities in the field of classical literature, law and history, he also dealt with geography, as evidenced by his Cosmographiae generalis ... which was the first work of importance in this field in the Netherlands. He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1602/03 . Due to his professional demands, he fell ill and in 1607 went on a recreational trip to Rostock, where he had relatives and friends. After a stay of two months and about to return to Leiden, he was seized with a heated fever of which he died.

His marriage to Judith Buys, daughter of the Council of States of Holland Bartholomäus Buys Gryphius, has nine children. Of these, the names Jacoba, Willem, Bartholomeus, Angelus, Justina, Jacob, Jacob, Joannes and Jacoba are known. The daughter Justina married the lawyer Anton Woltreich in 1619 .

Works (selection)

Placaten end Ordonnantien van de Wildernissen end Jachtbedrijf (1605)
  • Manner van procederen in de Provintien van Holland, Zeeland end West-Friesland, belangende Civile Zaaken, getrouwlijk end met neerstigheid byeen vergaderd uit all ordinances, privileges, instructions, missives, acts, apostilles etc. dead serve one inde honderd jaaren herwaards, bij de Hooge Overigheid of van because of dezelve uitgegeven: alles met Civile en Canonyke regten, nevens de Regtsgeleerden, zo nieuwe, als oude meeningen bevestigd. Leiden 1592; The Hague 1619, 1631, 1681; Delft, 1705, also by G. de Haas under the title: Nu van nieuws Vermeerderd met various placcates, resolutions, ordinances, die naderhand uitgegeeven zijn; bevestigd met Regten, Advisen van Regtsgeleerden, Sententien van de Hoven van Justitie van Holland, Zeeland en elders; mitsgaders veele Aanmerkingen van voorname geoeffende Practisijns; met een groot nieuw verbeterd register voorzien. Leiden, 1741, 1784
  • Urbis Romae Delineatio, et methodica ex variis Authoribus Descriptio Leiden 1599 also by JL Fenacolius under the title Beschrijv. van het oude Rome. Amsterdam 1650 and Livy Amsterdam 1650
  • Eutropii Historiae Romanae Libri X et Pauli Diaconi Libri XVIII ex editione PM Leiden, 1592, 1594,
  • Ennii Annalium Libri XVIII, quae apud varios autores, supererant Fragmenta, collecta, composita, illustrata from Paulo GFPN Merula. Leiden 1595,
  • Vita Francisci Junii, Beturicensis, from ipsomet Junio ​​scripta. Leiden 1595, Geneva 1602,
  • Willerami Abbatis in Canticum Canticorum paraphrasis genuina, prior Rythmis Latinis, altera veteri linguâ Francicâ, addita Explicatio Linguâ Belgicâ et notae quibus veterum vocum Francicaram ratio redditur. Leiden 1596, 1598,
  • Fidelis et succincta commemoratio rerum adversus Angelum Merulam tragice gestarum from Inquisitoribus. Suffering 1604
  • Posters end Ordonnantien van de Wildernissen end Jachtbedrijf. 1605; Groningen 1672
  • Vita Desiderii Erasmi, ex ipsius manu fideliter repraesentata. Additi sunt Epistolarum ipsius Libri duo, collecti et editi a PM. Suffering 1607,
  • Cosmographia generalis Libri tres, item Geographiae particularis Libri quatuor: quibus Europa in genere; speciatim Hispania et Gallia, Italia, describuntur. Cum tabulis geographieis. Amsterdam 1605, 1621 and 1636
  • Tydt-Threzoor, often kort end bondich verhael van den standt der Kercken end de Wereltlicke regieringen; Vervattende beneffens de Successie of the breaks, Patriarchs, Eerst-Bisschoppen, Bisschoppen, etc. Keysers, Koningen, Vorsten, Princen, etc. Geestelycke Order, vermaerde Schrijvers, Ketters etc. de Gedenckwaerdichste divorced over the Ganschen Aertbodem, van Christi born after dead tegenwoordigen jare 1614 met groote vlydt ende naersticheydt opgezocht ende by een gestelt, the tijdt omtrent van twaelf hondert jaren; door PMJC Historie Schrijver der Vereenichde Nederlanden. Voltrocken end vervolght van den jare MCC dead the tegenwoordige jare MDCXIIII by synen soon Gulielmum Merulam. Leiden 1614, 1627, 1639.
  • Diatriba de statu Reipublicae Batavicae, cum Libello de Republica atque urbibus Hollandiae. Leiden 1618 (editor Joachimo Mörsio)
  • Opera posthuma de Natura Reipublicae Batavicae: accessere Dominici Baudii Orationes omnes. Suffering 1625
  • Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum Provinciar. Batava. Accessit de eadem materia P. Merulae diatribe. The Hague 1650, (editor P. Scriverius)
  • Oratie over den Aert en Eigenschap of the Batavian Republiek. Enkhuizen 1642
  • Vita Joannis Capnionis, cum ejusdem Epistolarum Libris. Leiden 1642, (Editor PM)
  • Dissertatio de Maribus, eighth de negotiating van Grotius de Mari libero. Leiden 1623, 1635,
  • Italia, Gallia and Hispania. Amsterdam 1636
  • De Romanorum Comitiis et Praemiis, quae militiam sequebantur. Opuscula posthuma. Leiden 1675, (publisher Joh.Boschio)
  • Opera varia posthuma juxta Autographum cum amplissimo indice edita et recensita. Leiden 1684,

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Remarks

  1. ^ Willem was enrolled at the University of Rostock in 1609. See the entry of Gulielmus Merula's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Bartholomeus was also enrolled at the University of Rostock in 1609. See the entry of Bartolomaeus Merula's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Merula, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merle, Paulus van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer, historian and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1558
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1607
Place of death Rostock