HENRY OF HERFORD. - Dominican theologian and historian, b. at Herford at the beginning of the 14th century, d. at Minden on 13 Oct. 1370. A religious at Minden, he was definitor for his province of Saxony at the General Chapter of Milan in 1340.

He is known to historians for his Liber de rebus memorabilibus sive chronicum mundi (ed. Potthast, Göttingen 1850), a chronicle from the origin of the world up to 1355, of notable value for the historical period contemporary with the author. Of his other works only the Catena entium survives (Library of Erfurt, codd. 370 and 371).

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, I, pp. 665-66; P. von Loé, Statistisches über die Ordensprovinz Saxonia (Quellen u. Forsch. zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens in Deutsch., 4), Leipzig 1910, pp. 32-33; F. Novati, Il De Magnalibus Mediolani ed una cronaca rettifacilica del Trecento, in Archivio storico lombardo, 42 (1913), pp. 465-474; H. Ch. Scheeben, Untersuchungen über einige mittelalterliche Croniken des Predigerordens, in Archiv der deutschen Dominikanerordens, 1 (1937), pp. 208-21.

Alfonso D'Amato

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Henry of Herford

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