|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
Jean-Jacques Boissard (Besançon, 30 October 1528 – Metz, 1602), was a French collector of antiquities and Latin poet. He had been educated in Leuven and later traveled across Germany and Italy. He collected interesting Roman antiques and visited Greece as well. Having completed his collection, he returned to France, where he was allowed to preach Protestant doctrines in public.
In 1597 he published a book in French entitled ‘The Portraits of Famous Men’ (Icones Virorum Illustrium) in which he also mentions Flacius, admiring his work and intellect. Considering the fact that he was Flacius’ contemporary, Pietro Stancovich considered him to be the most reliable of all authors. |
|
|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
|
Johann Balthasar Ritter (III) (27 October 1674 – 3 January 1743) came from a family of Lutheran pastors. His ancestor Matthias Ritter Junior was a friend of Flacius with whom he exchanged letters, and was present at Flacius’ death. His studies on Church history in Frankfurt made Balthasar famous. From 1703 he served as parish pastor in Niedererlenbach near Frankfurt, and just two years later he was invited to Frankfurt. He was a member of a newly-founded Consistory from 1732 and one of its most prominent clergymen. His main work is Lutheran Monuments of the City Frankfurt am Main published in 1726, which includes the history of the Reformation movement in the city, based on numerous unpublished sources. His starting point is the orthodox Lutheranism of which he was a moderate representative. |
|
Read more...
|
|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
|
Pierre BAYLE (1647 – 1706), a French Huguenot, born at the foot of the Pyrenees as a son of a poor Protestant pastor. In order to get to college he had to give up Protestantism, but later took it up again. He was teaching at the Protestant Academy at Sedan for a while, until it was closed in 1681, and after that he went as a refugee to the Netherlands, to the Ecole Illustre in Rotterdam. He was a truly erudite scholar, especially concerning religious questions and one of the most widely-read philosophers. His ‘Historical and Critical Dictionary’ (Dictionnaire historique et critique), first published in 1696, was one of the most popular works of 18th-century literature: it is a fascinating collection of history, criticism, theology and philosophy. |
|
Read more...
|
|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
|
Girolamo GRAVISI (Kostel (Pietrapelosa), 15 June 1720 – Koper (Capodistria), 30 March 1812) was a very peculiar person, highly educated and well-read, and blessed with a gift for literature. He was a man with a wide range of vision and interests, a true humanist who unselfishly made his rich knowledge available to others. The Regional museum at Koper (Pokrajinski muzej Koper) keeps his 12x30 cm 16-page manuscript entitled Memorie intorno a Mattia Francovitz ditto volgarmente Flacio Illirico (Memories of Matthias Frankovitz, also known as Flacius Illyricus).
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
|
A canon regular Petar Matija Stanković (Pietro Mattia Stancovich) (24 February 1771 – 12 September 1852), from Barban, at the end of the second decade of the 19th century published his famous work Biografia degli uomini distinti dell’Istria (Biographies of the Famous Istrians). In Volume II, published in Trieste in 1829, pages 102-130 refer to Matthias Franković, known as Flacius Illyricus, a famous Lutheran theologian, born on March 3rd 1520 in the Istrian town of Labin, which was a part of ancient Illyria or Illyricum, so therefore he was known as Flacius Illyricus (Francovich Mattia, detto Flacio Illirico, famoso teologo luterano, nato il 3 marzo 1520 in Albona dell’Istria, città che faceva parte dell’antica Illiria, od Illirico, per il che si faceva chiamare Flacius Illiricus). The Encyclopaedia of Istria describes Pietro Stancovich as follows: a priest and historian dealing with archaeology, history, linguistics, theology, poetry, folk tradition, as well as agricultural-technical inventions, zoology, botany, geology and others. He himself published more than twenty his own works and later he was known as a polemicist.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
(Glückstadt, 11 April 1789 – Berlin, 8 January 1876), Evangelical-Lutheran theologian and philosopher. He studied philosophy and philology. He taught as a secondary school teacher in Berlin for a short period of time, and later lectured as a professor of theology and philosophy at the universities of Kiel, Bonn and Berlin.
He started publishing his works in 1815 and in 1844 his book ‘Matthias Flacius Illyricus, eine Vorlesung. Mit autobiographischen Beilagen und einer Abhandlung über Melanchtons Verhalten zum Interim von Hermann Rossel’ was published in Berlin. |
|
Flacius’ Most Important Biographers
|
|
Johann Wilheim PREGER (Schweinfurt, 25 August 1827 – Munich, 30 January 1896), a German Lutheran. He studied in Erlangen and Berlin. In 1851 as a pastor and a teacher he was asked to teach Protestant history. In 1868 he became a secondary school teacher in Munich. He was a man of wide knowledge and interests; he respected the opinions of others, and was an excellent teacher and useful Church servant. His life work is entitled ‘The History of German Mystery in the Middle Ages’. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 1 of 2 |
Matthias Flacius Illyricus 
