JOHN OF HILDESHEIM. - German Carmelite of the 14th century. He studied in Paris and then held the office of prior for many years at Kassel (1361) and at Marienau (from 1369).

He was the popularizer of the legend concerning the bodies of the Magi: De trium Regum corporibus Coloniam translatis (Mainz 1477, translated into several languages; most recent ed. Stuttgart 1925). Important is his philosophical treatise: Speculum fontis vitae (ms., London, Bodleian Library, cod. 1143), in which he treats, in the style of the Neoplatonists, of the emanation of the universe from God. As a historiographer he wrote, besides a chronicle of the Order and a collection of Carmelite legends, a Defensorium Ordinis B.M.V. de M. Carmelo (published in Daniel a Virginie Maria, Speculum Carm., I, Antwerp 1680, pp. 145-59).

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BIBL.: B. Xiberta, De scriptoribus scholast. saec. XIV O. Carm., Louvain 1931, pp. 37-58; C. de Villiers, Bibl. Carm., II, 2nd ed., Rome 1927, pp. 4-8.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

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John of Hildesheim

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