Also known as:
Godfrey Henschen;
French: Godefroid Henschen;
Latin: Godefridus Henschenius
HENSCHEN (Henschenius), Godefrid. - Jesuit hagiographer, Bollandist, b. at Venray (Limburg) on 21 Jan. 1601, d. at Antwerp on 12 Sept. 1681. Assigned in 1635 as the first assistant to Fr. J. Bolland for the composition of the Acta Sanctorum, he soon revealed himself as a reforming critic.
His first work, a commentary on the life of St. Vedast and St. Amand, conducted on the basis of first-hand historical and chronological research, helped to give a strictly scientific character to the entire collection of the Acta, so much so that he could be called the second founder of the work. The work was taken as a model by Bolland. With him he published in 1643 the first two volumes for January, and in 1658 the three volumes for February of the Acta. With Fr. D. Papebroch he brought out the three volumes for March, the three for April and the first six for May. He also devoted himself to other historical research, among which the foremost are Diatribae de episcopatu et episcopis Trajectensibus (1653), De tribus Dagobertis regibus (1655). He also undertook long journeys, visiting the best libraries and bringing back from them a rich harvest of texts and observations (cf. Peeters, pp. 24-25).
Bibliography5 worksD. Papebroch, De vita, operibus et virtutibus vob Managivou, in Acta SS. Maii, VII, Paris 1866, pp. i-xiv; H. Delehaye, L'oeuvre des Bolland
BIBL.: D. Papebroch, De vita, operibus et virtutibus vob Managivou, in Acta SS. Maii, VII, Paris 1866, pp. i-xiv; H. Delehaye, L'oeuvre des Bollandistes 1615-1915, Brussels 1920, p. 26-33; P. Peeters, L'oeuvre des Bollandistes, Brussels 1942, pp. 16-27. On H.'s journeys in Italy, v. the various articles by M. M. Battistini cited by Peeters, ibid., p. 23; A. Mercati, Bollandiana dall'Arch. segreto vaticano, Rome 1940, p. 12; S. Prete, Le origini dell'agiografia, in Convivium, 1948, pp. 281 ff.
Toschi, Tomaso. “Hensckens (Henschenius), godefroid.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1408. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/hensckens-henschenius-godefroid.
MLA
Toschi, Tomaso. “Hensckens (Henschenius), godefroid.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1408. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/hensckens-henschenius-godefroid.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_hensckens_henschenius_godefroi,
author = {Toschi, Tomaso},
title = {Hensckens (Henschenius), godefroid},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1408},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/hensckens-henschenius-godefroid}
}
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