Heribert Rosweyde

Heribert Rosweyde ( born January 20, 1569 Utrecht, † October 4, 1629 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch Jesuit, theological writer and hagiographer. He is considered the founder or initiator of the so-called Bollandists, which the Acta Sanctorum published.

Life

Rosweyde was born in Utrecht and entered the Society of Jesus on 21 May 1588. He spent his novitiate in Tournai.

In 1591 he put his MA from the University of Douai; In 1599 he was ordained a priest. In Douai Heribert Rosweyde taught logic and then worked as a professor of philosophy at the Jesuit college at Saint- Omer ( Pas -de- Calais ), then in Antwerp, where he also served as prefect of studies.

In Antwerp he became infected in nursing with a deadly virus and died.

Work

Consistent importance is Father Rosweyde by his hagiographic studies and the idea to collect systematically Holy reports to examine and publish. Hence the continued until the 20th century factory Acta Sanctorum, with about 70 volumes and still existing group called Bollandists, which it publish or continue to collect material for publication hagiographisches developed.

Rosweyde planned in 1607 originally, the source- critical edition of all traditional in Belgian manuscripts of saints, in 18 volumes (3 volumes to Christ, Mary and the history of the feast days of saints, 12 volumes saints according to the order of the church calendar, and a further 3 volumes of martyrologies, historical data and tables of contents ). As a first discharge of his collecting activities, he published in 1615 the highly regarded " Vitae patrum ", a compilation of biographies of early Christian monastic fathers. This was the forerunner for the later Acta Sanctorum, the publication of the Jesuit did not live, even though he almost exclusively worked on this project since 1606.

At his death in 1629 he had amassed very extensive hagiographisches material and the Jesuits commissioned Father Jean Bolland ( 1596-1665 ) to complete the work begun. The latter was finally its name to the whole group and its activities, the so-called Bollandists. The Acta Sanctorum should now include the saints worldwide and arranged according to the calendar. Father Bolland received 1635 Godefridus Henschenius SJ (1600-1682) as a research assistant and both published in 1643 in Antwerp, the first volume of the collected edition.

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