Jeremias Drexel

Jeremias Drexel SJ, also: Hieremias Drexelius ( born August 15, 1581 Augsburg, † April 19, 1638 in Munich) was a German Jesuit and a successful writer edification of the Counter-Reformation.

Life

Jeremias Drexel comes from a family of Augsburg Lutheran, but converted in youth to the Catholic faith. Until 1595 he attended the Jesuit gymnasium in Augsburg, and in 1598 he was inducted into the Society of Jesus. After the novitiate he studied theology and philosophy in Ingolstadt in 1610 and received priestly ordination. He spent the following years as a teacher at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Munich and Augsburg, until he was appointed in 1615 as court preacher to the Duke Maximilian I to Munich, where he would remain until his death.

Drexel consistently wrote in Latin devotional works achieved in the time of the Thirty Years' War, a barely comprehensible for us popularity. After Augustin de Backer Carlos summer bird, the Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus écrivains, 1620-38 158,000 of his Latin books were printed in Munich alone, not to mention numerous other print materials at home and abroad as well as translations in eight foreign languages. All works published in contemporary German versions of Joachim Meichel. Unlike other militant Counter-Reformation propagandists like Gretser cousin and his books are characterized by absolute impartiality and avoid any controversy.

Drexel was an ardent supporter of witch-hunting and admirer Martin Delrios. Even in one of his last works, Gazophylacium Eleemosyna Christ, he wrote in 1637, it was the duty of the rulers, "this kind of weed " to eradicate. Innocent people could be punished that through the practice of witch trials, he had as little apply as the objection that despite decades of witch-hunting their numbers had apparently not reduced. Rather, for him, was the fact that the authorities " so many thousands of this hellish mob " had to be burned, already proof enough that witches and " fiends " actually existed.

Edition of the Works

Opera omnia. Frankfurt / M.: Nice weather in 1680 ( the total expenditure published before 1680 are still incomplete )

Literature (selection )

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Drexel ( Drexl, Träxl, Drechsel ), Jeremiah. In: Biographic- bibliographic church encyclopedia ( BBKL ). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2, unchanged edition Hamm, 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1, Sp 1383rd (Articles / Articles beginning possibly in the Internet Archive )
  • Heribert Breidenbach: The Emblematiker Jeremias Drexel. Diss Univ. of Illinois in 1970
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt: Jeremias Drexel (1581-1638), in: personal bibliographies to the printing of the Baroque, Vol 2 Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7772-9012-2, pp. 1368-1418 (factory and bibliography)
  • Heribert Gauly: the simple eye. The doctrine of Jeremias Drexel on the . Mainz 1962
  • Wilhelm Kratz: Drexel, Jeremiah. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0, pp. 119 f ( digitized ).
  • Karl Pörnbacher: " The earthly of Jeremias Drexel ," in: Yearbook of the Historical Society Dillingen 83 (1981 ), pp. 73-82
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