Pelbartus Ladislaus of Temesvár

Pelbartus Ladislaus de Temesvar (or Temeswar) (1430–1504), Franciscan writer and preacher. Born in 1430 at Timişoara (today in Romania but at the time Hungarian Temesvár), in the Hungarian kingdom of Matyas Kiraly. In 1458 he enters to the University of Krakow. In 1463 he is licenced in Theology. Possible in 1471 leaves Krakow as a doctor, then in 1483 is mentioned in the Franciscan Community Annales of St. John Monastery in Buda, the Hungarian Capital city. After 1483 his writings begin to be published in print. The first printed edition of his Sermons dates from 1498. In 1503 a printed version of his lecture notes is published. Pelbartus died in 1504, January the 9th, in Buda, as a highly distinguished author and professor. Hungarian versions of his writings in manuscript date from 1510.

His work

There are two kinds of texts: sermons (many of them treating the Immaculate Conception) and Commentaries on Sentences of Petrus Lombardus. His final work is a synthesis called Aureum Sacrae Theologiae Rosarium – finished by his student Oswald of Lasko.

Editions

* "Expositio Compendiosa et Familiaris Sensum Litteralem et Mysticum Complectens Libri Psalmorum, Hymnorum, Soliloquorum Regii Prophetae, item Expositio Canticorum V. et N. Testamenti, Symboli Athanasii, Hymni Universales Creaturae" (a.o. Strassbourg, 1487/ Hagenau, 1504 & 1513).
* "Pomerium Sermonum de Tempore" (s.l., 1489/Hagenau, 1498 & 1500). There are other editions as well, possibly 12, between 1501 and 1520.
* "Pomerium Sermonum de Sanctis" (a.o. Hagenau, 1499 & 1500). 11 editions between 1501 and 1520.
* "Pomerium Sermonum Quadragesimalium/Qauadragesimale Triplex" (a.o Hagenau, 1499 & 1500). 9 editions before 1520.
* "Sermones" (Neurenberg, 1483/s.l., 1486).
* "Stellarium Coronae Mariae Virginis" (a.o. Hagenau, Heinrich Gran & Johannes Rynman, 2 Maii, 1498/ Strasbourg, 1496/Basel, Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim, 1497-1500).
* "Aureum Sacrae Theologiae Rosarium iuxta Quattuor Sententiarum Libros Pariformiter Quadripartitum" (4 books) IV Vol. (Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, 1503-1508/Venice, 1586 & 1589/ Brescia, 1590). This work has been finished by Oswald of Lasko. It is a dogmatic work where Pelbartus comments upon Scottist texts. Has references to Duns Scotus, St. Bonaventure, Tomas Aquinas, William of Vorrilon.

Bibliography

* Z. J. Kosztolnyik, "Some Hungarian Theologians in the Late Renaissance", "Church History. Volume: 57". Issue: 1, 1988.
* Z. J. Kosztolnyik, "Pelbartus of Temesvar: a Francican Preacher and Writer of the Late Middle Ages in Hungary", "Vivarium", 5/1967.
* Kenan B. Osborne, O.F.M., "The History of Franciscan Theology", The Franciscan Institute St. Bonaventure, New York, 1994.
* Franklin H. Littell (ed.), "Reformation Studies", John Knox Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1962.

External links

* [http://franka-egom.ofm.hu/nevadonk/nevadonk.htm Page in hungarian Language]