Also known as:
German: Johann Faber, Johann Fabri;
John Faber;
Latin: Johannes Fabri
FABER, JOHANNES. - Dominican preacher and polemicist, b. at Augsburg around 1475, d. in 1530. He was prior of Augsburg (1507), vicar general of the Congregation of Upper Germany (1511). At first, having believed in a repentance of Luther, he had judged him very favorably, as appears from his Consilium cuiusdam ex unima cupientis esse consultum et R. Pontificis dignitati et christianæ religionis tranquillitati, published anonymously in 1520; but when he became aware of his rebellious spirit he changed his opinion, and fought him, also distancing himself from the humanists, to whom he had previously been so attached.
Of his writings there survives only a Gratia funebris in depositione glorioissimi imperatoris Caesaris Maximiliani (Augsburg 1519); an Epistola to the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer (ed. in J. Heumann, Documenta litteraria varii argumenti, Altdorf 1758, pp. 87-93) and the Consilium, reprinted and translated several times, which, attributed until 1896 to Erasmus, was definitively reclaimed for F. by Paulus (N. Paulus, Der Dominikaner J. F. und sein Gudachten über Luther, in Historisches polit. Jahrbuch, 17 [1896], pp. 39-60).
Bibliography4 worksQuétif-Echard, II, p. 80; N. Paulus, Die deutschen Dominikaner im Kampfe gegen Luther, Fräulage in Br. 1903, pp. 292-313; R. Coulon, s. v. i
BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, p. 80; N. Paulus, Die deutschen Dominikaner im Kampfe gegen Luther, Fräulage in Br. 1903, pp. 292-313; R. Coulon, s. v. in DThC, V, 11 (1913), coll. 2046-2050; P. Siesner, Geschichte des Dominikanerklosters Sankt Magdalen in Augsburg (Quellen u. Forsch. zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens in Deutschland, 33), Lipcia 1936, pp. 79-90, 312.
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Faber, johannes.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 939–940. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/faber-johannes.
MLA
D'Amato, Alfonso. “Faber, johannes.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 939–940. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/faber-johannes.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_faber_johannes,
author = {D'Amato, Alfonso},
title = {Faber, johannes},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {939--940},
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/faber-johannes}
}
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