Peter von Kastl

Peter von Kastl (around 1400) was a German Benedictine monk who, with high probability, created a translation of Boëthius ' Consolation of Philosophy (around 524).

biography

The most important evidence for Peter's existence is in the Chronicon Generale (1422) by Andreas von Regensburg . There it says: "Eodem anno [= 1401] magister Petrus presbiter professus, Boecium de consolatione philosophiae transtulit de latino in teutonicum. Hic sepultus est in Castello, vulgariter zu Chastel." ["In the same year [1401] Magister Petrus, presbyter of the Benedictine monastery Kastl , installed in Reichenbach, translated Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae from Latin into German. He is buried here in Castello, usually known as Chastel."] In the Records of the Reichenbach monastery in the Upper Palatinate also mention a " Probst " with the name "Peter" in the entries for the years 1397, 1398, 1400, 1406 and 1408, and this "Probst" was mentioned in 1958 as that of Andreas von Regensburg Identified translator of the Consolatio . The translation was probably lost in the 17th century. An anonymous translation that was printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg around 1473 and reprinted by Johann Schott in Strasbourg in 1500 is occasionally equated with the translation by Peters von Kastl. While this cannot be completely ruled out, it is rather unlikely for various reasons.

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas von Regensburg, Complete Works , ed. by Georg Leidinger, p. 119 ( digitized version ).
↑ Heribert Batzl: Reichenbach am Regen monastery: foundation, economic and intellectual history of an Upper Palatinate Benedictine monastery . Dissertation: University of Würzburg, 1958. Vol. II, p. 367.
↑ Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr .: Peter von Kastl: His translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae of the late Roman philosopher Boethius. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat 37 (1993), 67-74. [Dt. Translation, by Richard Utz, of an originally English lecture given at the "Fifteenth-Century Congress" in Perpignan, France, June 1990.]
^ Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus / Thomas <de Aquino>: De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary by Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas; [1-2], vol .: [1], text with translation, Nuremberg, [approx. 1473] urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00035233-6 .
↑ Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, German by Peter von Kastel in the complete catalog of the Wiegendrucke (GW number GW04573)
↑ Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: From the consolation of wisdom; with foreword, Strasbourg, 1500 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00025591-3
↑ Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, German by Peter von Kastel in the complete catalog of the Wiegendrucke (GW number GW04575)
↑ Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: From the consolation of wisdom. Translated by Peter von Kastl in the incunable catalog INKA
↑ Boethius: The consolation of wisdom. Translation: Peter von Kastel in the British Library's Incunabula Short Title Catalog
↑ Bernd Bastert: Continuities of a »Classic«. On the late medieval German reception of the ›Consolatio Philosophiae‹ of Boethius. In: Manfred Eikelmann, Udo Friedrich (Hrsg.): Practices of European tradition formation in the Middle Ages: Knowledge - Literature - Myth. Akademie Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005206-9 , pp. 117–140, here pp. 120 u. 125 f. ( accessed via de Gruyter online; limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Peter von Kastl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peter of Kastel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Benedictine monk
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1397
DATE OF DEATH	between 1408 and 1422
Place of death	uncertain: Kastl

[1] Andreas von Regensburg, Complete Works , ed. by Georg Leidinger, p. 119 ( digitized version ).

[2] Heribert Batzl: Reichenbach am Regen monastery: foundation, economic and intellectual history of an Upper Palatinate Benedictine monastery . Dissertation: University of Würzburg, 1958. Vol. II, p. 367.

[3] Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr .: Peter von Kastl: His translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae of the late Roman philosopher Boethius. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat 37 (1993), 67-74. [Dt. Translation, by Richard Utz, of an originally English lecture given at the "Fifteenth-Century Congress" in Perpignan, France, June 1990.]

[4] Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus / Thomas <de Aquino>: De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary by Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas; [1-2], vol .: [1], text with translation, Nuremberg, [approx. 1473] urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00035233-6 .

[5] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, German by Peter von Kastel in the complete catalog of the Wiegendrucke (GW number GW04573)

[6] Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: From the consolation of wisdom; with foreword, Strasbourg, 1500 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00025591-3

[7] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, German by Peter von Kastel in the complete catalog of the Wiegendrucke (GW number GW04575)

[8] Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus: From the consolation of wisdom. Translated by Peter von Kastl in the incunable catalog INKA

[9] Boethius: The consolation of wisdom. Translation: Peter von Kastel in the British Library's Incunabula Short Title Catalog

[10] Bernd Bastert: Continuities of a »Classic«. On the late medieval German reception of the ›Consolatio Philosophiae‹ of Boethius. In: Manfred Eikelmann, Udo Friedrich (Hrsg.): Practices of European tradition formation in the Middle Ages: Knowledge - Literature - Myth. Akademie Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005206-9 , pp. 117–140, here pp. 120 u. 125 f. ( accessed via de Gruyter online; limited preview in Google book search).