Valens Acidalius

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Valens Acidalius , German Havekenthal (* 1567 in Wittstock , † May 25, 1595 in Neisse ) was a German humanist .

Life

Valens Acidalius was a major critic and writer who wrote in Latin . He was the son of a pastor in Wittstock. Acidalius studied in Rostock , Greifswald and Helmstedt . In 1590 he accompanied his friend Daniel Bucretius ( Daniel Rindfleisch ) to Italy, where he published his first work, a new edition of the Roman history of Velleius Paterculus . He studied philosophy and medicine in Bologna and received a doctorate in both subjects .

He was not interested in practical work as a doctor and instead concentrated on criticizing and editing classical works.

After several febrile illnesses, he returned to Germany in 1593, where he first went to Breslau with his friend Daniel Bucretius . In the spring of 1595 he received an invitation to Neisse from his friend Wacker von Wackenfels , who lived there as Chancellor of the Silesian regional government , and who he obeyed . There he died of a fever that same year at the age of only 28.

Participation in the Querelle des femmes

"In the beginning of the year" [1595] - the year he died - he published, apparently in Frankfurt, Disputatio nova contra Mulieres, Qua probatur eas Homines non esse (New dispute that proves that women are not human), a pamphlet (loud Zedler “Dissertatio”) against the women in the context of the Querelle des femmes , which brought him “a lot of annoyance” and followed up with counter-writings. In order to make up for the publisher's damage, he left him "his animadversionibus ", which is why he was taken for the author of the font, although he denied it.

Works (selection)

As editor

  • C. Velleius Paterculus / cum Aldi Manutii scholiis, Justi Lipsii animadversionibus, Jac. Schegkii notis, Valentii Acidalii variis lectionibus… Paderborn 1590
  • Valentis Acidalii in Q. Curtium animadversiones . Frankfurt 1594

Original edition

  • Valens Acidalius (anonymous, ascribed to him): Disputatio nova contra Mulieres, Qua probatur eas Homines non esse , [Frankfurt] 1595, without specifying the printer. Reprints and internationally translated by the end of the 18th century. German translation 1618: Whether women are human beings or not?

Posthumous editions

  • Centuria prima epistularum . Hanau 1606
  • In Comoedias Plauti , Quae exstant, Divinationes Et Interpretationes Valentis Acidalii . Frankfurt am Main, 1607
  • Notae [in] C. Corn. Taciti Opera quae extant: Indice duplice, vno auctorum veterum, altero verborum & phrasium . Hanau 1607
  • XII. Panegyrici veteres . (In the Gruterchen edition, Heidelberg, 1607), microfiche edition: Munich 1992.

New editions

  • Ralf G. Czapla [ed.], Georg Burkard [ed.]; Georg Burkard [ transl .]: Disputatio nova contra mulieres, qua probatur eas homines non esse / Acidalius, Valens. (New disputation against women to prove that they are not human) . Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-934877-51-6
  • Elisabeth Gössmann (Ed.): Whether women are people or not? (This is the title of Volume 4 and the German version of 1617/1618 of the Disputatio nova contra Mulieres, Qua probatur eas Homines non esse ). In: Archive for women's research in the history of philosophy and theology . Facsimile of the print from 1618 and To the good-hearted reader . See also the preface to the 2nd edition of volume 4, p. 7, introduction p. 9 and notes. iudicium, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89129-004-7 , chap. III, pp. 101-124 (1st edition 1988).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry by Valens Acidalius in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Acidalius (Valens). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 1, Leipzig 1732, column 347.
personal data
SURNAME Acidalius, Valens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Havekentha, Valens; Hauckenthal, Valens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittstock
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1595
Place of death Neisse