Also known as:
French: Dom Martianay;
Latin: Johannes Martianay
MARTIANAY, JEAN. - Benedictine exegete and patrologist, b. at St-Sever-Cap (Gascony) on 30 Dec. 1647, d. at St-Germain-des-Près (Paris) on 16 June 1717. Having entered the monastery of Toulouse of the Congregation of St. Maur (1667), he devoted himself particularly to the study of Greek and Hebrew and taught biblical sciences in various monasteries.
His principal work, announced by the Divi Hieronymi prodromus (Paris 1690), was the edition of the works of St. Jerome: S. Eusebii Hieronymi Stridonensis presbyteri divina bibliotheca antehac inedita (5 vols., ibid. 1693-1706), which soon became the object of disagreements and bitter criticism. In the same year 1706 he published, also in Paris, La vie de st Jérôme prêtre, solitaire et docteur de l'Eglise. His annotations on the entire correspondence of St. Jerome are still found separately in PL 22, 1225-72.
His other numerous writings (cf. Ch. de Lama, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Congrégation de St-Maur, Monaco 1882, pp. 110-15, nos. 297-320) are for the most part of a polemical and apologetic character, marked by a lively and mordant language, and of hermeneutics.
Bibliography5 worksF. Le Cerf de la Viéville, Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congrégation de St-Maur, L'Aia 1726, pp. 307-22; J.-B. Vane
BIBL.: F. Le Cerf de la Viéville, Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congrégation de St-Maur, L'Aia 1726, pp. 307-22; J.-B. Vanel, Nécrologie des religieux de la Congrégation de St-Maur décédés à l'abbaye de St-Germain-des-Près, Parigi 1896, pp. 112-15; F. Vigouroux, s. v. in DB, IV, col. 827; Hutter, IV, coll. 829-35; J. Baudot, s. v. in DThC, X, col. 181 ff.
Metzinger, Adalberto. “Martianay, jean.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 204. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/martianay-jean.
MLA
Metzinger, Adalberto. “Martianay, jean.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 204. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/martianay-jean.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_martianay_jean,
author = {Metzinger, Adalberto},
title = {Martianay, jean},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {204},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/martianay-jean}
}
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