Werner Rolevinck

Page from Rolevinck's Fasciculus Temporum , Cologne around 1483

Werner Rolevinck (* 1425 in Laer , † 1502 in Cologne ) was a Carthusian monk in Cologne who wrote numerous writings on church history, regional history and exegetical type.

Life

Rolevinck was born in Laer near Horstmar as the eldest son of the wealthy hereditary farmer Johann Schulte Rolevinck, who was able to finance a higher education for him. In 1443/44 Rolevinck enrolled at the law faculty in Cologne, before entering the Carthusian monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne on November 6, 1447, where he lived until his death from the plague in 1502. He wrote over 50 writings in the monastery, including sermons, histories and biblical interpretations, all of which are in the tradition of medieval scholasticism and only partially reveal the spirit of Renaissance humanism . His most important works are the Fasciculus temporum and De laude antiquae Saxoniae nunc Westfaliae dictae .

The Fasciculus temporum is a universal story in a clear form, which was not an outstanding scientific achievement in its time, but was enormously popular. This work by Rolevinck was also translated and reached a total of 100,000 copies in around 50 different prints.

De laude antiquae Saxoniae nunc Westfaliae dictae (German for the praise of Westphalia, the old Saxony region ) is Rolevinck's second important book, which already formulates some of the stereotypes about Westphalia that are still common today. The work is also one of the oldest cultural histories of a German landscape and has been published repeatedly in numerous editions to this day.

Another of his works is the peasant mirror ( Libellus de regimine rusticorum ), which offers a comprehensive insight into the social history of peasants at the end of the Middle Ages. In it Rolevinck reminds of the equality of human beings before God and in the face of death. For him, the farmer is God's friend and co-worker, the foster father of mankind. During his life on earth, the Son of God chose the fruit of peasant labor, bread and wine, to be matter for Christ's mystical and bodily presence in the Eucharist.

expenditure

Incunibles and issues of the early modern period

Works by Werner Rolevinck in the complete catalog of the incidental prints , some digital copies :

• Quaestiones duodecim notabiles. Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne around 1472 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum. Nikolaus Götz, Cologne around 1473 ( digitized version )
• De contractibus . Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne around 1475 ( digitized version )
• De forma visitationum monasticarum . Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne around 1475 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum. Jan Veldener, Löwen 1475 ( digitized version )
• Paradisus conscientiae. Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne 1475 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum. Konrad Winters, Cologne 1476 ( digitized version )
• De fraterna correctione . Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne around 1477 ( digitized version )
• De regimine rusticorum . Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne 1477–84 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum . Heinrich Quentell , Cologne 1479 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum . Heinrich Quentell, Cologne 1479 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum . Heinrich Quentell, Cologne 1480 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum . Jan Veldener, Utrecht 1480 ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum , German: Eyn bürdin or assembly of the cyt. Bernhard Richel, Basel [31. VIII. 1481] ( digitized version )
• Fasciculus temporum . Johann Prüss, Strasbourg 1487 ( digitized version )
• De regimine rusticorum . Johann von Paderborn, Löwen not before 1484, not after 1487 ( digitized version )
• Sermo in festo praesentationis beatissimae Mariae virginis . Arnold ter Hoernen, Cologne 1470 ( digitized version )
• Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (Ed.): Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum. In: Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores . Volume 2. 3rd edition. Regensburg 1726, pp. 397-575 (print edition from 1584)

Modern editions and translations

• Hermann Bücker (Ed.): Werner Rolevinck 1425–1502: A book to praise Westphalia, the old Sachsenland. The text of the Latin first edition from 1474 with a German translation. 2nd Edition. Aschendorff, Münster 1982
• Egidius Holzapfel (ed.): Werner Rolevincks peasant mirror. Investigation and re-edition of "De regimine rusticorum". Herder, Basel 1959
• The pastoral leadership of the farmers . Freiburg i. Br. 1959

Trivia

The primary school in his home town of Laer is named after him.

literature

• Peter Johanek : Werner Rolevinck . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 9, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89659-909-7 , column 8.
• Lexicon for theology and the church . Volume VII, 1368
• Rolevinck, Werner OCart. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VIII, Col. 153 ff.
• Franz Xaver von Wegele:  Rolevinck, Werner . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 72 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Werner Rolevinck  in the German Digital Library
• Werner Rolevinck in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"