Stephanus Winandus Pighius

Stephanus Winandus Pighius with the memorial picture of the dead Karl Friedrich von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, painting around 1585,
"Historisch Museum" , Deventer

Steven Winand Pigge (* 1520 in Kampen an der IJssel ; † October 16, 1604 in Xanten ), who called himself Stephanus Winandus Pighius as a humanist , was a prince educator at the court of Wilhelm the Rich in Düsseldorf and worked as a philologist and antiquarian.

Life

Stephanus Winandus Pighius was the son of Hendrik Wyntgens (Wintgens; Wynkens) and Gese Pigge, a sister of the important Catholic controversial theologian Albert Pigge (around 1490–1542). After studying and doing his doctorate in Leuven , he went to Italy in 1547 and stayed mostly in Rome as the secretary of Cardinal Marcello Cervini (later Pope Marcellus II ) , then in 1555 he became librarian to Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (later Viceroy of Naples ) in Brussels ). Wilhelm the Rich hired him in 1574 as a prince tutor to Kleve, from where he accompanied Karl Friedrich , the heir to the throne of the House of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , on his grand tour to Vienna to the imperial court and to Rome. Here Karl Friedrich fell ill with the leaves and died in February 1575. Pighius described this journey in the book Hercules Prodicius . It was published in 1587 and, due to its detailed description of the sights of Italy , was published several times over a century as the basis of travel guides for the Grand Tour , especially for Franz Schott (* 1548; † 1622): Itinerarii Italiae rerumque Romanarum libri tres , Antwerp 1600. With his Mythologia Pighius is considered the founder of scientific research into myths. He ended his life as a canon in the Xanten Abbey , in whose library his memory is alive.

Works

• Mythologia , 1559
• Themis dea seu de lege diuina , Antwerp 1568
• Hercules Prodicius , Antwerp 1587
• Annales Magistratuum Romanorum , Part 1 Antwerp 1599 (Parts 2 and 3 were published by Andreas Schott in 1615 )

literature

• Hilde Hiller: Archaeological studies of St. V. Pighius in Xanten . In: Antique drawing and antique studies in the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Files of the international symposium Coburg 1986 , ed. by Henning Wrede / Richard Harprath, Mainz 1989, pp. 167-183.
• Otto Jahn : About the drawings of ancient monuments in the Codex Pighianus . In: Reports of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig , 1868, pp. 161–235.
• Henning Wrede: The Themis Dea of ​​SV Pighius . In: Antonio Agustín between Renaissance and Counter-Reform , ed. by MH Crawford , London 1993, 189-210.
• Otto Jahn: About a Roman ceiling painting from the Codex Pighianus . In: Reports of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig , 1869, pp. 1–38.
• Jan Hendrik Jongkees: Stephanus Winandus Pighius Campensis . In: Mededelingen van het Nederlands Historisch Instituut te Rome 8, 1954, pp. 120-185.
• Jan Hendrik Jongkees: De brieven van Stephanus Pighius . In: Bijdragen voor de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 16, 1961, pp. 228–243.
• Richard Hoche :  Pighius, Stephan Vinandus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 126 f.
• Marc Laureys : Lipsius and Pighius. The changing Face of Humanist scholarship . In: Filologie en literatuurgeschiedenis (Philologie et histoire lettéraire) 68, 1998, pp. 329–344.
• Theodor Mommsen : The collection of letters from and to Pighius . In: Monthly reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin , 1866, pp. 419–436.

Web links

• Complete text of Hercules Prodicius in Latin
• An excerpt from the Hercules Prodicius
• Biography and appreciation of the SW Pighius in Spanish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Walter Troxler:  Pighius (Pigge), Albert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 610-612.