JAMES OF JÜTERBOG. - Born in 1381 in the surroundings of Jüterbog near Berlin, the son of a poor peasant; his name was Benedikt Stolzenhagen; at the age of twenty he became a monk in the Cistercian abbey of Paradies near Frankfurt an der Oder (hence the nickname G. de Paradiso). He was sent to the University of Kraków, where he rose to the rank of lector and university preacher (whence he was called de Polonia). In 1441 he entered the Carthusian monastery of Erfurt (whence he was called de Carthusia, de Clusa, Erfordiensis). He carried on his activity at the University of Erfurt as a teacher of canon law and was rector in 1455. He died around 1465.

G. was an ardent supporter of the Reform and of the conciliar principles, in which he saw the Reform itself assured. Besides sermons and reformist writings, he produced treatises on questions of dogmatics, moral theology, ascetics and canon law. The simplicity of his language betrays the influence of humanism. The Vita by G. Wolrad has not been published in full.

Of his numerous writings (about eighty) there is no complete edition. As for what was published of his work in incunabula, cf. Hain, De erroribus et moribus Christianorum (also in E. Jacob, Joh. von Capestrone, II, Breslau 1911, p. 283 ff.); Petitiones religiosorum (in E. Klupfel, Vetus biblioth. ecc., Freiburg 1780, pp. 146-69); De negligentia praelatorum (in Chr. F. W. Walch, Monumenta inedita medii aevi, II, Göttingen 1764, p. 67); Avisamentum ad papam (in Klupfel, op. cit., pp. 134-45); De septem statibus ecclesiae (in Walch, op. cit., II, fasc. 2); De causis multarum passionum (in B. Pez, Biblioth. ascet., VII, Regensburg 1725, pp. 389-444); De indulgentiis ([De anno iubilaei], in Walch, op. cit., II, fasc. 2, p. 163).

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BIBL.: Kirchenlexikon, VI, 1166-71; M. Grabmann, Jakob v. J., in LThK, V, col. 259; S. Autore, Jacques de J., in DThC, VIII, coll. 297-98; P. Tschackert, Jakob v. J., in Realenc. f. prot. Theol. u. K., VIII, pp. 556-58; R. B. Schmidt, Jakob v. J., in Rel. Gesch. Gegenw., III, coll. 12-13; H. Kellner, in Theol. Quartalschr., 48 (1866), pp. 322-48; Fijalek, Mistrz. Jakob z Paradyzi, Kraków 1900; Th. Brieger, in Zeitschrift f. Kirchengesch., 23 (1903), pp. 136-50; F. Schillmann, ibid., 35 (1914), pp. 64 ff.; 363 ff.; Pastor, I, pp. 5-7, 406-409. An index of the codices, edited by Ludwig Meier, is announced.

Ignazio Backes

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James of Jüterbog

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