Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh

Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg ( h), Joachim (us) Fortius Ringelberg (ius ), also Ringelbergius Antverpianus ( Andouerpianus ); (*. Antwerp, c 1499; † died after January 1, 1531 - c 1536 c 1556. [? ]. [? ] ) Was a Flemish polymath - humanist, mathematician and astrologer. He sat ( under his Latinized name Ioachimi ForTii Ringelbergii Andouerpiani ) as the first in the title of a work a term that corresponds to the later word encyclopaedia:

A single-volume work in Latin, usually cited shorter Lucubrationes, vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia or just as Kyklopaideia. A Second edition of 1541 had a slightly different title and is therefore usually quoted briefly Kyklopedeia.

Ringelberg enrolled proven on January 5, 1519 at the University of Leuven, but it is believed that he was already in 1516 or 1517 there moved. There he studied under Peter Curtius, soon after, he taught probably in the meantime been directed Collegium Trilingue.

At the latest at the beginning of 1528, he left Leuven to take two big trips, during which he taught, but also print his work was: first went to Antwerp to Cologne, then Mainz, again in Cologne, Heidelberg, Basel, Freiburg and Strasbourg; from there via Mainz and Cologne back to Antwerp, where he arrived in April 1529.

A few months later, he began his second, the France trip: About Leuven (3 August 1529) he went to Paris (September to December 1529, where he found in Calvi Collegium Andreas Hyperius as a student and admirer ), then to Orléans Bourges and Lyon, where after January 1, 1531 loses its track.

Since his stay in Basle, he had several times visited Erasmus of Rotterdam, who must have appreciated him and wrote two epigrams for striping mountain Institutiones astronomicae. Erasmus's secretary Nicolaas Kan, however, scoffed at Marigold Bergs work in one of his epigrams, 1529th

  • " This adherence to the traditional classification scheme with simultaneous insertion of modern disciplines is another typical phenomenon of early modern Enzyklopädik. Ringelberg about band in his Lucubrationes the Trivium with a quasi modernist Quadrivium of astronomy, arithmetic, cosmography and optics together and added versions for divination and the foundations of natural philosophy at. " ( Melanie Forest)
  • For word - creations from the Greek (→ kyklopedeia ) can be found [ ... ] later, unquestionably dependent on Melanchthon documents in mountain calendula, [ ... ]. (Carl Joachim Classen )
  • Ringel mountain is said to have built a ring-shaped sundial.

Other works

From mountain ringed around thirty works are known, including in particular an on pedagogy, De ratione Studii. The work was printed in the 16th century often - only on the Rhetorica are about 20 out of this century known. In addition, there was the ten issues " Collected Works " ( Lucubrationes = night work ):

  • Lucubrationes. Antwerp 1529th
  • Ioachimi Fortij Ringelbergij Andouerpiani Opera, quae proxima pagina enumerantur. Lyon, apud Gryphium, 1531 (reprint Nieuwkoop 1967); In 1556.
  • Lucubrationes. Basel, 1538 (online), 1541, 1546 ( only these three issues are complete).
  • Ioachimi Fortij Ringelbergij Andouerpiani Compendium de conscribendis uersibus. Lyon, Seb. Gryphius excud. , 1531.
  • De formis dicendi; De Periodis; De ratione studii; De usu vocum quae non flectuntur; Dialectica; Elegantiae; Elementa graeca; Rhetorica, schemas ( = Liber de figuris ac vitiis orationis ); Sententiae; Synonima; Arithmetica; Chaos mathematicum; OPTICE.

Cosmography:

  • Institutiones astronomicae: Ternis libris contentae, quorum primus ...; cum annotationibus, et ind. Basileae. Valentin Curio, 1528 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Ioachimi Ringelbergii Antuerpiani Institutiones astronomicae Ternis libris contentae. Cum ... annotationibus, & indice. Venice: Melchiorre Sessa, in 1535.
  • Cosmographia; De tempore; Sphaera ( also used as an introduction to the Institutiones ).

Astrology:

  • Astrology, De somniis ( = De interpretatione Somniorum, De urina non visa, Geomantia, Horoscopus, Physionomia ); Chaos, Experimenta; De homine. (a mixture of physiology and philosophy).
  • Institutiones astronomicae teruis libri contentae quorum primus spherae ac mundi nature declarat. Basel 1528th
  • Opera Joachim ForTii ring. Andoverpiani. Astrology. de figuris Geomantiae. In ad divinationem ', ridícula sed jucunda quaedam vaticinia. Lyon: Sebastien Gryphe, 1531.
  • J. F. Ringelbergii sphaera ... Item eiusdem in tres libros institutionum astronomicarum prefatio. Antwerp; Basel 1541; Cologne, 1550.
  • Ad divinationem. In: Opera. Lyon: J. Frelon, 1556; Lyon: A. Vincent, 1657th
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