Eumenius

Eumenius (c. 264 in Augustodunum; † about 312 ) was a Gallic rhetorician of late antiquity. Due to a read error, he was taken in the 16th century incorrectly with the city of Kleve in conjunction.

Eumenius came from Augustodunum, now Autun, where he worked for a considerable content of the Scholae Maenianae initiated since 296. Even his grandfather, who came from Athens, had been a well-known orator in Rome and Augustodunum. Eumenius, which was 293 or 298 also private secretary ( magister memoriae trecenarius ) of the Emperor Constantius I., reported later in a speech that he probably held around 297, about his efforts to restore the school. This speech, in which he praised the four then reigning Emperor, has remained to this day in the Panegyrici Latini. Eumenius, who had a son, died at 312 Whether it be allocated even more anonymous Panegyrici is controversial.

Due to a misreading of the humanist Rhenanus, who wrote in 1520 his edition of Panegyrici instead Augustodunum Augustoclivum, the residents believed Kleve ( Latinized Augustoclivum ) that their city already existed in late antiquity and the home of Eumenius was then. When the Klever humanist Stephanus Winandus Pighius believed to have recognized a statue of Eumenius in a plastic in the great hall of the castle Klever 1587, this was situated at the middle gate of the city wall, which was thought to be a part of the ancient Roman city of Kleve. Also, attempts were made to locate the Roman buildings in the city Augustodunum and Scholae Maenianae in Kleve.