1727 GERMANIA SACRA BY M. HANSIZ BLINDSTAMPED PIGSKIN ANTIQUE FOLIO W/ MAP

1727 GERMANIA SACRA BY M. HANSIZ BLINDSTAMPED PIGSKIN ANTIQUE FOLIO W/ MAP

Hansiz, M.

Germaniae Sacrae.

Metropolis lauriacensis cum episcopatu pataviensi chronologice proposita.

vol. I

Augsburg, G. Schluter and M. Happach, 1727

(22), 834,(48)p.,

Foilo, 9 by 13.5"

Woodcut title-vignette, head- and tailpieces, large initials, folding map, engraved plates by B. GUTWEIN, woodcut in text illustrations with coats of arms

Original blindstamped pigskin binding with brass catches (damaged), both covers with central mirror ornament surrounded by 4 ornamental borders containing floral, geometrical and leafy patterns, fillet borders, blindstamped spine with 5 raised bands,

Excellent interior condition, Binding is firmly attached, in very good shape.

Original owner's entry and library stamp on title-page; bookplate on upper pastedown

Text in Latin.

Markus Hansiz, known in Slovene as Marko Hanzic (1683 - 1766) was a Jesuit historian.

Hansiz was born in the town of Volkermarkt in the Duchy of Carinthia in a Carinthian Slovene family.

He was only fifteen when he entered the Society of Jesus in the near town of Eberndorf. He was ordained a priest in 1708 and on the completion of his studies became professor of humanities at Vienna. From 1713 to 1717 he taught philosophy at Graz, and from 1717 devoted himself entirely to the study of history.

His interest in the Anglia Sacra of Henry Wharton, the Gallia Christiana of Sainte-Marthe, Ughelli's Italia Sacra, and other similar treatises, together with the advice of the scholarly librarian, Bernardo Gentilotti, made him determined to execute a comprehensive "Germania Sacra".

For this purpose he examined numerous libraries and archives, and published (1727–1729) histories of the Church of Lorch and of the Sees of Passau and Salzburg:

Germaniae Sacrae tomus primus: Metropolis Laureacensis cum episcopatu Pataviensi chronologice proposita (Augsburg, 1727),

and an Archiepiscopatus Salisburgensis chronologice propositus (Vienna, 1729).

This work took him to Rome, where he became acquainted with Muratori and Maffei. Hansiz is also considered the first historian who advanced the theory of the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps in the 6th century A.D., which was later generally accepted by historians.

With advancing age he ceased personal researches, but induced his younger Jesuit peers, in Graz and Klagenfurt, to take up and carry on his work. With the same end in view he communicated, only a short time before his death, with the learned prince abbot, Martin Gerbert, the result being that the Benedictine Fathers, Emil Usserman, Ambrosius Eichhorn, and Trudpert Neugart, took charge of the work for the Dioceses of Wurzburg, Chur, and Constanz.

He died in Vienna.

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