Cornelius Sneek
Cornelis van Sneek, Cornelius Henrici de Snekis, Cornelius van Šnek, Šnek, Snecanus, de Snekis, Snegassius († September 14, 1534 in Leeuwarden ) was an acting mainly in Germany Dutch Dominicans and opponents of the Reformation.
Life
Father Cornelis probably came from Sneek. Little is known about his origins and his studies until Cornelius Henrici de Snekis was first enrolled on September 1, 1476 at the University of Rostock. In May 1483 he was enrolled again. At this Zeiptpunkt he was already his doctorate in theology and Prior conventus Sancti Johannis, so Prior of St. John monastery in Rostock. In 1491 he stayed to study theology in Cologne and in 1496 in Leuven, where he became in 1501 a PhD again. 1501/ 02 he was prior in Bremen, 1503/ 04 in Rostock; In 1505 he is attested as a master in the office of inquisitor in the dioceses Kammin and Schwerin, and from 1505 to 1508 and as Inquisitor General for Germany of the Dutch Congregation, the reform branch of the Dominican order. In 1509 he was Vicar of Ostnation in the Dominican Order. In 1513 he received the license as master in the chapter of the Dominican Order in Genoa. From 1515 he was again in Rostock as Prior of St. John monastery and taught as a professor of theology at the University of Rostock.
In March 1515 he was a religious chapter to Greifswald and was enrolled here at the University of Greifswald. In 1523 he was again in Greifswald and received his doctorate there the prior of the Black Cloister Wilhelm van Buren as a doctor of theology. In 1519 he gave the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity of Landfahrer -Kramer to Rostock, in the Dominican Church of St. John had their Trinity altar, a certificate of the Convention and their mutual benefits. The Brotherhood included all land wandering merchants in northeastern Germany, who had their meeting in Rostock during the Pentecost market.
He was an opponent of the Franciscans and stood resolutely counter the Reformation efforts, however, was never objective personal accusations. After the closure of the monastery in Rostock in 1532 he went to Wismar in 1533 and returned in 1534, perhaps via Frankfurt / Oder, in the Netherlands, where he died the same year.
His main literary work was a series of sermons on the Rosary. Already in 1514 published two sermons in Paris with Jodocus Badius Ascensius.
His estate library, which included 107 books, came in 1542 in the library of St. John's Convent in Rostock and from there in 1575 in the library of St. Mary's Church (Rostock). Your remainders came in 1842 by buying at the Rostock University Library.
Works
- Sermons magistri Corne | | lii de Snekis. sacrae Theologiae professoris Ordinis | | fratrũ praedicatorũ, Denuo impressi Cu additione | | pluriũ sermonũ & introductionũ super cõfrater / | | nitate de serto Rosaceo sacrosanctae dei genitricis | | semperq; uigrinis Mary, quod rosariũ beatae Ma | | RIE inscripsit Sermones duo eiusdẽ Cotra Ebrie = | | Tate Sermones latini synodal eiusdẽ diuino | | sale multaq; eruditione conditi | | Rostock. Marshalk 1517
- Defensio Ecclesiasticorum quos Spirituales appellamus. Frankfurt / Oder: Hanau 1530
- Sacrosancte premise ac canonis misteriorum brevis et compendiosa dilucidatio. Frankfurt / Oder 1534