Paulus Bolduanus (also Paul or Bolduan, among other variations; c. 1563 – 1622 or later) was a pastor and bibliographer who lived in Pomerania.
Bolduanus was born around 1563 and lived to at least 1622. He entered a theological school in a place called Stolpe in Pomerania (possibly Pomerania-Stolp or Landkreis Stolp) in 1579 at age 16. He became a Lutheran minister in Vessin in 1598.[1]
Bolduanus published three bibliographies between 1614 and 1622: Bibliotheca theologica (1614), Bibliotheca philosophica (1616), and Bibliotheca historica (1620). The first two were published in Jena and the latter in Leipzig.[2][3] He may also have written genealogies of Pomeranian nobles.[4]
Bibliotheca philosophica, which Archer Taylor calls the "third large general subject-index to be compiled",[5] is a selective bibliography of philosophical texts. It covers "all subjects other than theology, law, and medicine".[6] It contains extensive discussion of works associated with Ramism. Bolduanus's sources for Bibliotheca philosophica may have included Nomenclator scriptorum philosophicorum atque philologicorum, a bibliography by Israel Spach; and catalogues of books at the Frankfurt Book Fair.[7] Its index is organized by the trivium and quadrivium.[8]
In the 18th century, Bolduanus's reputation was mixed. Johann Albert Fabricius favoured Bolduanus; Burkhard Gotthelf Struve did not.[9]
Notes
edit- ^ Jasenas 1973, p. 33.
- ^ Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1903) [1809]. The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness. Vol. 4. Boston: The Bibliophile Society. p. 7.
- ^ Besterman, Theodore (1992). "The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography". In Cordasco, Francesco (ed.). Theodore Besterman, Bibliographer and Editor: A Selection of Representative Texts. Scarecrow Press. pp. 181–185. ISBN 0-8108-2497-3. OCLC 25009266.
- ^ Taylor 2017, pp. 71–73.
- ^ Taylor 2017, p. 73.
- ^ Taylor 2017, pp. 74, 76.
- ^ Jasenas 1973, pp. 33–34.
- ^ Bottin, Francesco; Malusa, Luciano; Micheli, Giuseppe; Santinello, Giovanni; Tolomio, Ilario (17 April 2013). Santinello, Giovanni (ed.). Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica'. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 77–78. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8181-3. ISBN 978-94-015-8181-3.
- ^ Krummel 1972, p. 7.
Sources
edit- Jasenas, Michael (1973). A History of the Bibliography of Philosophy. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 3-487-04666-0. OCLC 703469.
- Krummel, Donald William (1972). Bibliotheca Bolduaniana: A Renaissance Music Bibliography. Detroit: Information Coordinators. ISBN 0-911772-46-4. OCLC 532131.
- Taylor, Archer (11 January 2017) [1966]. General Subject-Indexes Since 1548. University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.9783/9781512818963. ISBN 978-1-5128-1896-3.
Further reading
edit- Pohlig, Matthias (2007). Zwischen Gelehrsamkeit und konfessioneller Identitätsstiftung: lutherische Kirchen- und Universalgeschichtsschreibung 1546-1617 (in German). Mohr Siebeck. pp. 140–153, 207. ISBN 978-3-16-149191-7.
- Taylor, Archer (1955). A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies. Scarecrow Press – via Project Gutenberg.