DÖRING, MATTHIAS. - Theologian, biblical scholar and historian of the Conventual Franciscans, b. at Kyritz in Brandenburg between 1390 and 1400, d. there on 24 July 1469. Elected provincial minister of Saxony (1427), he devoted himself to the government of his friars, taking part in the controversies that were being debated with the Observants over the Franciscan rule. In 1432 he took part in the Council of Basel. A supporter of the conciliar thesis, at the time of the schism of Felix V he was elected (1443) minister general of the Order by the partisans of this antipope; not recognized, he renounced his office. He took part in the dispute over the blood of Wilsnack. He did not neglect ecclesiastical reform, although with personal views not always acceptable.
Of his scholarly activity as a lecturer (at Erfurt and Magdeburg in 1422, 1445, 1451) and as a writer there remain the Commenti in quattuor libros Sententiarum (manuscript, Munich), the Defensorium postillae Nicolai de Lyra (Nuremberg 1481, 1485, 1487; Venice 1481, 1482-83), and the Continuatio chronici Theodorici Engelhussi ab a. 1420 ad a. 1464 (Leipzig 1730, Berlin 1838-63). In theology he preferred Scotus, whom he defended against his opponents.
Bibliography8 worksP. Albert, M. D., ein deutscher Minorit des 15. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1892; C. Eubel, M. D., in Der Katholik, 8 (1893), pp. 16-20; Wadding
BIBL.: P. Albert, M. D., ein deutscher Minorit des 15. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1892; C. Eubel, M. D., in Der Katholik, 8 (1893), pp. 16-20; Wadding, Scriptores, p. 171; Sbaralea, II, pp. 235-37; L. Oliger, M. D.'s Gutachten über die Franzisbaerregel (1451) und observantistische Gegenschrift, in Franzisk. Studien, 9 (1922), pp. 203-36; L. Meier, De Schola Franciscana Erfordensi sacc. XV, in Antonianum, 5 (1930), pp. 59-70; F. Doello, s. v. in LThK, III, col. 421; Bullarium Franciscanum, new series, ed. Pou y Marty, II, Quaracchi 1930, p. 501, n. 959.
Odoardi, Giovanni. “Döring, matthias.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 1885–1886. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/doring-matthias.
MLA
Odoardi, Giovanni. “Döring, matthias.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1885–1886. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/doring-matthias.
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@incollection{ec4_doring_matthias,
author = {Odoardi, Giovanni},
title = {Döring, matthias},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {1885--1886},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/doring-matthias}
}
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