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Benedict Chelidonius or Schwalbe (also Benedict Chelydonius or Caledonius; born c. 1460; died 1521) was an abbot of the Scottish monastery at Vienna. A scholar of Greek and a neo-Latin poet, he worked with the artist Albrecht Dürer.〔Franz Posset, ''Renaissance Monks: monastic humanism in six biographical sketches'', Leiden: Brill, 2005.〕 In some of his publications he took the name Musophilus. ==Life== The 17th-century historian Thomas Dempster claimed Benedict to have been of Scottish origin,〔Thomas Dempster, ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotarum'', 1627, p. 181〕 presumably on the basis of his surname (actually taken from the Greek ''cheridon'', meaning swallow), and possibly also because of his association with the so-called Scottish Abbey in Vienna (actually of Irish foundation). In fact he came from around Nuremberg, and became a monk at the Abbey of St Aegidius in Nuremberg.〔 Chelidonius wrote Latin poetry on the passion of Christ and the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary to accompany woodcuts published by Albrecht Dürer in 1511. He moved to Vienna in 1514, becoming abbot of the Scottish Abbey in 1518.〔Asaph Ben-Tov, (Review of Posset, Franz, Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in six Biographical Sketches ), H-German, H-Net Reviews. March 2007. Accessed 23 February 2013.〕 In 1519 he published an edition of the ''Libri quatuor sententiarum'' by Bandinus, a 12th-century theologian - an abridgement of Peter Lombard's ''Sentences'' which Chelidonius mistakenly thought to have been Peter Lombard's model.〔 He was a close friend of the theologian Johann Eck, the opponent of Martin Luther, and the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', following Dempster, ascribed to him a tract against Luther, ''Contra Lutherum apostatam''. However, the tract cannot be identified.〔 Benedict died on 8 September 1521.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benedict Chelidonius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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