Benedict Chelidonius

Benedictus Chelidonius OSB (* 1460 in Nuremberg, † September 8, 1521 in Vienna; actually Benedict swallow epithet Musophilus ) was a German humanist and poet and abbot of the Vienna Schottenstift.

Life

Chelidonius occurred in the 1480s in his native city of Nuremberg in the Egidien monastery. He used initially Latinized as Hirundo, but then only in the form Graecized Chelidonius His family name Swallow. Following Jakob Locher ( called Philomusus ) he called himself Musophilus. Meaning he gained as Neo-Latin poet by numerous dedicatory poems, verses and accompanying poetic prefaces. Due to this its proximity to Conrad Celtis, Willibald Pirckheimer and its sister charity, John Cochlaeus, John Stabius, Joachim Vadian and John Cuspinian is tangible. Get several letters Chelidonius ' to Willibald Pirckheimer he supported, inter alia, in its 1513 published Plutarch translation De his qui tarde a Numine corripiuntur.

His early works include a biography of St. Benedict in 65 Einzeldistichen ( Elegiacum in vitam S. St. Benedict ), which survives in a copy of Hartmann Schedel, and verses about the creation of the Nuremberg Egidien monastery ( Versiculi de funda tio coenobii Aegidiani ) and its abbots since 1418 ( De abbatibus nonnullis eiusdem coenobii ), which were written for a created by Hans von Kulmbach glass windows in the cloisters of the monastery. At the public Chelidonius occurred with a Sapphic ode to his teacher Celtis, which was printed in 1507 in the Melopoiae Peter Tritonius, and an elegy on the death of Celtis ' in 1508, with which he also recommended to Emperor Maximilian I as poet laureate.

Outstanding is Chelidonius ' collaboration with Albrecht Dürer. Chelidonius had his artistically ambitious work, the Passio of Jesus Christ salvatoris mundi, already with 27 woodcuts John Wechtlins published (after 1506, probably 1508), prompted in 1511 but a new publication with 37 woodcuts Dürer ( Small Woodcut Passion). This was followed in the same year Epitome in Divae Parthenices Mariae historiam with 20 woodcuts ( Life of the Virgin ) and Passio domini nostri Jesus with 11 woodcuts Dürer ( Large Passion). He also got a few years later for the triumphal arch of Maximilian I, which was realized among others by Dürer, the Latin translation of John Stabius German drafted Clavis and Tituli.

To 1514 moved Chelidonius, possibly at the instigation of Emperor Maximilian, in the Vienna Schottenstift, where stood his literary work in close relationship with the Viennese court. At the Vienna Fürstentag 1515 be the young Duke Charles of Burgundy dedicated tribute game Voluptatis cum Virtute disceptatio was performed by students of the Scots pin. This has its roots in the Nuremberg Shrovetide play and is also a prototype of the school play. It presents a stage adaptation of Prodicus fable Hercules is at a crossroads and was Hans Sachs in its own version of the substance as a model. About the Princes self-written Chelidonius - complementary to John Cuspinians official diary - an epic report in two books ( De Caesaris Divi Conventu Maximiliani, Regumque Hungariae Boemiae et Poloniae ), which is, however, survives only in manuscript. Also in 1515 appeared in Cuspinians edition of the Chronicle of Otto of Freising prize poem Chelidonius ' to Emperor Maximilian. For astrological calendar for 1517, written by the Viennese astronomer Georg Tannstetter, he wrote a poem.

1518 Chelidonius compromise was abbot of the Scots congregation. In the year under the title of the Sentences theologicarum libri quattuor it appeared his edition of the treatise De Trinitate Sacrosancta the Master Bandinus what Johannes Eck had recently discovered in a milker handwriting. In a dedicatory letter to Maximilian I. Chelidonius summarized in the Memoria program of the emperor immediately before his death, summing up together. 1521 died Chelidonius after only three years in office in Vienna.

Works (selection)

Independently printed works

• Passio Jesus Christ salvatoris mundi (after 1506), with woodcuts John Wechtlins a second time as the Passio Christi with woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer (1511, Small Woodcut Passion).
• Epitome in Divae Parthenices Mariae historiam (1511 ), dedicated to Caritas Pirckheimer, with woodcuts Dürer ( Life of the Virgin ).
• Passio Domini nostri Jesu ( 1511), with woodcuts Dürer ( Large Passion).
• Voluptatis cum Virtute disceptatio ( 1515).
• Bandini viri doctissimi Sentences theologicarum libri quattuor ( 1519).

Printed dedicatory poems, verses and accompanying prefaces

• Ode to Conrad Celtis in the Melopoiae Peter Tritonius ( 1507).
• Accompanying verses to Tetrachordum musices of John Cochlaeus (1511 ).
• Accompanying verses to Brevis descriptio Germaniae Cochlaeus ' ( 1512).
• Accompanying verses to Meteorologia Aristotelis Cochlaeus ' ( 1512).
• Accompanying verses to Joachim Vadian Nuremberg edition of Strabo Walahfrid Hortulus ( 1512).
• Employees to Willibald Pirckheimer translation of De Plutarchi his qui tarde a Numine corripiuntur ( 1513).
• In mortem Antonii Cressi Elegia in Epicedion Cochlaeus ' ( 1513).
• Carmen de divo Caesare nostro Maxaemiliano in John Cuspinians Ottonis Phrisingensis Episcopi, viri clarissimi, Rerum ab origine mundi usque ad tempora ipsius gestarum ( 1515).
• Latin translation of the title page, the Clavis and the Tituli the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I of John Stabius Porta Honoris, Hoc est Descriptio Portae Honoris Quondam Caesareae Maiestati Maximiliano Primo, Anno 1515 Erecta ( 1517-1518 ).
• Accompanying verses to George Tannstetters Judicium Astronomicum Viennensis anni 1517 (probably 1516).

Handwritten traditional works

• Elegiacum in vitam S. St. Benedict ( in a copy of Hartmann Schedel handed ).
• ( First printed in 1551 in Kaspar Bruschs Monasteriorum Germaniae ) Versiculi de funda tio coenobii Aegidiani and De abbatibus nonnullis eiusdem coenobii.
• Elegia de fato Conradi Celtis protrucii poète Laureati ( 1508).
• Elegy about the rumor of the death of Abbot George Steward ( handed in a copy of Hartmann Schedel ).
• Price poem in 18 couplets on Willibald Pirckheimer in a letter to the same ( 1512 ).
• De Caesaris Divi Conventu Maximiliani, Regumque Hungariae Boemiae et Poloniae (1515, epic design of the Viennese prince tags in two books ).