Marcus Friedrich Wendelin

Marcus Friedrich Wendelin

Marcus Friedrich Wendelin (1584–1652) was a German college rector and Reformed theologian. He is known for his pedagogical and religious works published in Latin.[1]

Early life

Wendelin was born at Sandhausen, where his father was a pastor.[2] He matriculated in 1604 at the University of Heidelberg, studied under David Pareus, and was strongly influenced by Ramism. He graduated magister in 1607.[2][3]

Tutor

As the tutor to two young noblemen, Wendelin travelled to Geneva. There he encountered Peter von Sebottendorf and his three princely pupils. They were Johann Kasimir of Anhalt-Dessau, his younger brother Friedrich Moritz, and Christian of Anhalt-Bernburg. Through von Sebottendorf he was engaged to travel with the princes. When Friedrich Moritz died at Lyon in 1610, Wendelin accompanied his body to Dessau.[2]

Rector at Zerbst

Wendelin was a long-term rector at the Gymnasium illustre of Zerbst, succeeding Gregor Bersman who died in 1611. This institution had been set up in 1582 by Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt and Wolfgang Amling, and while functioning as a university college did not have corresponding privileges.[4]

Works

Wendelin was a representative figure of Reformed scholasticism, a dogmatic approach in pedagogy and theology shared with Lambert Daneau, Benedict Pictet, Francis Turretin, Gisbertus Voetius and Girolamo Zanchi. It was at odds with the Lutheran approach to Aristotelianism.[5] The Lutheran Johann Gerhard attacked Wendelin in his Collegium Antiwendelinum; as did Johannes Musaeus in his Collegia Disputatoria contra Wendelinum und Becanum.[6] Christoph Franck wrote a retrospective Exercitationes X Anti-Wendelinae (1687) against Wendelin's Systema majus theologiae christianae.[2][7]

  • Contemplationum Physicarum Sectiones tres (1625, Hanau; 1648, Cambridge, office of Roger Daniel).[8][9][10] Counted alchemy, medicine and natural magic as branches of physics.[11] In the second section Cosmologia (1648),[12] Wendelin explained Michael Stifel's date of the end of the world in 1533 in terms of a biblical chronogram.[13][14][15]
  • Christianae Theologiae Libri II (1st edition 1634, Hanau; 1639, Amsterdam). Recommended by Richard Holdsworth as clearer for the novice than Calvin's Institutes.[16] Remarks in Wendelin's introduction on Valentin Weigel were later given currency by John Arrowsmith.[17]
  • Institutionum Politicarum Libri Tres (1645) on political science.[18]
  • Philosophia Moralis: Praeceptis Succinctis Methodice comprehensa (1647), a work of moral philosophy.[19][20] 1654 edition at Harderwijk as Marci Friderici Wendelini Philosophia moralis, præceptis succinctis methodicè comprehensa.[21][22] Adriaan Heereboord recommended the study of Wedelin's moral philosophy.[23]
  • Admiranda Nili (1648, Cambridge).[9]
  • Exercitationes theologicae vindices, pro theologia christiana Marci Friderici Wendelini ... oppositae Joh. Gerhardi (1652).[24] Also edition of 1669.[25]
  • Logicae Institutiones Tironum adolescentum (1654, Amsterdam) was a Ramist logic text, used at Harvard College.[26] It was a paraphrase and critical expansion of the Dialecticæ Libri Duo of Petrus Ramus, and ran to many further editions.[27]

The Medulla priscae puraeque Latinitatis Latino-Germanicae (1638), sometimes attributed to Andreas Josaeus of Anhalt (1600–1660), had a second edition at the hands of Wendelin in 1647. According to Jan Šabršula, the attribution to Josaeus, who had contributed to the work, was a slip by Comenius.[28][29] This work made Wendelin's reputation as a teacher of Latin. It was based on an abridgement of Robert Estienne's Thesaurus linguæ latinæ, to which were added phrases from classical authors. It became a standard work for German Gymnasiums.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia". McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 ADB:Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich  (in German) – via Wikisource.
  3. ↑ Dickson, Donald R. (1998). The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century. Brill. p. 153 note 26. ISBN 978-90-04-11032-8.
  4. ↑ Historische Kommission für Sachsen-Anhalt (2003). Sachsen und Anhalt: Jahrbuch der Historischen Kommission für Sachsen-Anhalt (in German). Köln - Weimar: Böhlau Verlag. p. 550.
  5. ↑ Stewart, Michael Alexander (1990). Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Clarendon Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-19-824966-5.
  6. ↑ Noack, Lothar; Splett, Jürgen (6 February 2015). Mark Brandenburg 1640–1713 (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 323. ISBN 978-3-05-007901-1.
  7. ↑ ADB:Frank, Christoph  (in German) – via Wikisource.
  8. ↑ Salatowsky, Sascha (1 January 2006). De Anima (in German). John Benjamins Publishing. p. 15 note 54. ISBN 978-90-6032-374-8.
  9. 1 2 Cambridge University Press (1935). A List of Books Printed in Cambridge at the University Press, 1521-1800. CUP Archive. p. 21.
  10. ↑ Wendelin, Marcus Frederick (1648). Contemplationum physicarum sectiones tres (in Latin). Ex officina Rogeri Danielis.
  11. ↑ Clark, Stuart (1999). Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-19-820808-2.
  12. ↑ Wendelin, Marcus Frederick (1648). Contemplationum physicarum sectiones tres (in Latin). Ex officina Rogeri Danielis.
  13. ↑ Koetsier, Teun; Bergmans, Luc (9 December 2004). Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study. Elsevier. p. 303 note 4. ISBN 978-0-08-045735-2.
  14. ↑ Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (1862). Of Anagrams. Stephen Austin for Williams & Norgate et al. p. 5.
  15. ↑ Aubel, Matthias (2008). Michael Stifel: ein Mathematiker im Zeitalter des Humanismus und der Reformation (in German). Rauner. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-936905-36-6.
  16. ↑ Quantin, Jean-Louis (12 February 2009). The Church of England and Christian Antiquity: The Construction of a Confessional Identity in the 17th Century. OUP Oxford. p. 170 and note 74. ISBN 978-0-19-955786-8.
  17. ↑ Mullinger, James Bass (1911). The University of Cambridge. Vol. III. Cambridge: University press. p. 478.
  18. ↑ Selderhuis, Herman (15 March 2013). A Companion to Reformed Orthodoxy. Brill. p. 38. ISBN 978-90-04-24891-5.
  19. ↑ Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich (1647). Philosophia Moralis: Praeceptis Succinctis Methodice comprehensa: Commentariis theoreticis & practicis e priscis Theologis, Philosophis, Oratoribus, Historicis & Poetis plene illustrata: Insuperque septem quaestionum moralium centuriis & epimetrō logice libereque asserta & absoluta (in Latin). Kleinius.
  20. ↑ Baugus, Bruce P. (24 September 2022). The Roots of Reformed Moral Theology: The Historical Background of an Ecclesial Tradition. Reformation Heritage Books. p. 1951. ISBN 978-1-60178-929-7.
  21. ↑ Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich (1654). Marci Friderici Wendelini Philosophia moralis, præceptis succinctis methodicè comprehensa (in Latin). ex Office Johannis Toll.
  22. ↑ Bavinck, Herman (18 June 2019). Reformed Ethics. Vol. 1 : Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity. Baker Academic. p. 530. ISBN 978-1-4934-1444-4.
  23. ↑ Cellamare, Davide; Mantovani, Mattia (14 November 2022). Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age. Brill. p. 52. ISBN 978-90-04-52489-7.
  24. ↑ Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich (1652). Exercitationes theologicae vindicies, pro theologia christiana Marci Friderici Wendelini ... oppositae Joh. Gerhardi ... collegio Antiwendeliano ... (in Latin). Schadewitz.
  25. ↑ Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich (1669). Exercitationes theologicae vindices, pro theologia christiana Marci Friderici Wendelini: oppositae Johannis Gerhardi ... collegio antiwendeliniano, aliisque recentium Lutheranorum scriptis orthodoxiam infestantibus : quibus omens et singulae controversiae theologicae inter orthodoxos & Lutheranos ... discutiuntur, doctrinaeque orthodoxae veritas ... insultus, instantias, cavillationes et criminationes perspicuè et nervosè asseritur ... (in Latin). Impensis Johannis Schützen.
  26. ↑ Miller, Perry; Johnson, Thomas H. (22 September 2014). The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings. Courier Corporation. p. 30 note 2. ISBN 978-0-486-16105-1.
  27. ↑ Miller, Perry (1983). The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Harvard University Press. p. 498. ISBN 978-0-674-61306-5.
  28. ↑ Wendelin, Fridericus (1647). Medulla priscae puraeque latinitatis latino germanica (etc.) jam indice germanico instructa ab Andrea Josaeo. Addita memoria Rudolphi Wendelini (etc.). Ed. II. emend. et auct (in German). Frankfurt, Leipzig: Johannes Press. p. v.
  29. ↑ Šabršula, Jan (1992). "Supplementum I: La linguistique dans les ecrits latins de Comenius". Listy filologické / Folia philologica. 115: 20. ISSN 0024-4457.
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