Peregrinus of Racibórz

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Peregrin's statue on the rectorate building of the University of Opole

Peregrinus von Ratibor (also Peregrinus von Oppeln ; first name also Pilgrim ; Latin Peregrinus Rathiboriensis , also Peregrinus Opoliensis ; Polish Peregryn z Opola ; * around 1260 , † after 1333 ) was a Silesian Dominican and provincial of the Polish province . He gained fame as a homileticist through his collections of sermons .

Life

It is not known when or where Peregrinus was born. He is documented for the first time in 1303 as prior of the Dominican monastery of St. Jacob in Ratibor , where he was also the confessor of Duke Primislaus and later spiritual advisor to his daughter Euphemia . In 1305 he was prior at St. Adalbert's monastery in Breslau . From 1305 to 1312 and from 1322 to 1327 he was Provincial of the Polish Order Province, which included Silesia , Bohemia and Moravia . In 1307 he was probably involved in founding the Opole Dominican monastery. For the year 1318 he is recorded as inquisitor of the dioceses of Wroclaw and Cracow .

His nicknames of Ratibor , Breslau and Opole are derived from the positions held in these places.

Works

His homilitic work

  • Sermones de tempore et de sanctis

probably originated before 1300 in the Dominican monastery in Ratibor. It comprises 65 sermons “die tempore” and 63 sermons “de sanctis”. They quickly gained in importance and were known and disseminated as full and partial copies beyond regional borders. Translations of the Latin copies were also made into Polish and Czech. About 350 manuscripts have been preserved and are listed in most academic libraries. Early prints were made in Ulm (1474 and 1479), Strasbourg (1484 and 1493), Breslau (1501) and Cologne (1505), among others.

literature

  • Thomas Wünsch : On the design of sermons from the "Sermones de tempore" by Peregrinus von Opole . In: The beginnings of literature in Upper Silesia up to early humanism . Edited by Gerhard Kosellek, Frankfurt / Main [u. a.] 1997, ISBN 3-631-32750-1 , pp. 139-167.
  • Edit Madas: Manuscripts and incunabula of Peregrinus in Hungary . In: The beginnings of literature in Upper Silesia up to early humanism . Edited by Gerhard Kosellek, Frankfurt / Main [u. a.] 1997, ISBN 3-631-32750-1 , pp. 169-182.
  • Franz Josef Worstbrock : Peregrinus of Opole . In: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters author lexicon, issue 11 (2004), column 1187.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version
personal data
SURNAME Peregrinus of Racibórz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peregrinus of Opole; Pilgrim of Racibórz; Peregrinus Rathiboriensis; Peregrinus Oppoliensis (Latin); Peregryn z Opola (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican, Provincial of the Order of Poland, homileticist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1260
DATE OF DEATH after 1333