Peter von Beeck

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Peter von Beeck , also Latinized as Peter a Beeck , Petrus a Beeck or Petri a Beeck († February 23, 1624 in Aachen ) was a canon of the Aachen Coronation Church and provost of the Aachen Adalbertstift . He is considered to be the author of the first treatise on the history of Aachen, written in Latin in 1620 .

Life

Peter von Beeck was the son of the lay judge and mayor of Jülich , Adam von Beeck , who died in 1611 ; his grandfather Adam von Beeck was governor and steward of the minster monastery in Erkelenz . Beeck was married and had ten children, including his son Caspar, later dean in Münstereifel and Maria, later abbess in Wenau .

In 1603 he was listed for the first time as a student at the University of Herborn , founded in 1584 . From 1604 he was a canon at the Münsterstift in Aachen; there he was ordained a subdeacon in 1612 and was the owner of the Michaelskapelle until 1622. In 1617 he became provost at the Adalbertstift in Aachen.

In 1620 his chronicle of the imperial and coronation city of Aachen, written in Latin, appeared under the title Aquisgranum sive historica Narratio de regiae SRJ et coronationis regum Rome. sedis Aquensis civitatis origine ac processu , which he dedicated to Count Wolfgang Wilhelm . In the chronicle he reports on the names, foundations, churches, monasteries, baths and hospitals of the city, on Charlemagne , councils, diets and the coronation rite of the kings who were crowned in the city. He goes into the city constitution, civil unrest of the 15th century and in detail the discussions about the religious unrest in Aachen in the 16th and 17th centuries . Especially for this topic he was able to fall back on the council minutes of the Aachen city secretary Balthasar Münster , which were later completely destroyed in the city fire of 1656 . The archives of the Adalbertstift and the Münsterstift also served him as sources. His description of the mosaics and the Carolingian furnishings of the Coronation Church is an important source of the city's history.

"The significance of his work lies in the fact that it first gives us a coherent account of Aachen's rich past."

His town chronicle was revised by Johann Noppius in 1632 and reissued in German in an expanded form. The direct translation of his chronicle did not take place until 1874 by the Aachen archivist P. St. Käntzeler . Beecks bequeathed his extensive library to the Aachen Jesuit monastery. However, this monastery library was closed and sold in 1776.

Works

  • Petri a Beeck imperialium ecclesiarum in Aquis b. Mariae Canonici ad D. Adalbertum Praepositi: AQUISGRANUM, Aquisgranum sive historica Narratio de regiae SRJ et coronationis regum Rome. sedis Aquensis civitatis origine ac processu , Aachen 1620, digitized version of the Bavarian State Library and the University of Ghent at books.google.de

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Wohlhage: Aachen in the Thirty Years' War. Aachen 1911: p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Beeck, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beeck, Petrus a (Latinized); Beeck, Peter a (Latinized); Beeck, Petri a (Latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and historian, first chronicler of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1624
Place of death Aachen