Benedict Chelidonius
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Benedict Chelidonius or Schwalbe (also Benedict Chelydonius or Caledonius; born c. 1460; died 1521) was an abbot of the
Scottish monastery at Vienna. A scholar of Greek and a Neo-Latin poet, he worked with the artist Albrecht Dürer.[1] In some of his publications he took the name Musophilus.[2]
Life
The 17th-century historian
St Aegidius in Nuremberg.[2]
Chelidonius wrote Latin poetry on the
Blessed Virgin Mary to accompany woodcuts published by Albrecht Dürer in 1511. He moved to Vienna in 1514, becoming abbot of the Scottish Abbey in 1518.[4] In 1519 he published an edition of the Libri quatuor sententiarum by Bandinus, a 12th-century theologian - an abridgement of Peter Lombard's Sentences which Chelidonius mistakenly thought to have been Peter Lombard's model.[2]
He was a close friend of the theologian Johann Eck, the opponent of Martin Luther, and the Dictionary of National Biography, following Dempster, ascribed to him a tract against Luther, Contra Lutherum apostatam.[5] However, the tract cannot be identified.[2]
Benedict died on 8 September 1521.[2]
Works
- Voluptatis cum Virtute disceptatio, 1515.
- Bandini Sententiarum de Rebus Theologicis, 1519. Reprinted, Louvain, 1557.
References
- ^ Franz Posset, Renaissance Monks: monastic humanism in six biographical sketches, Leiden: Brill, 2005.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2083. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Thomas Dempster, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotarum, 1627, p. 181
- ^ Asaph Ben-Tov, Review of Posset, Franz, Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in six Biographical Sketches, H-German, H-Net Reviews. March 2007. Accessed 23 February 2013.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
Sources
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.