Andreas Eudaemon-Joannis Explained

Andreas Eudaemon-Joannis (1566–1625)[1] was a Greek Jesuit, natural philosopher and controversialist. He was sometimes known as Cydonius.[2]

Life

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1581, in Italy.[3] He was at the Collegio Romano, where in 1597–8 he lectured on the Physics and other works of Aristotle; he wrote himself on projectile motion. He was at Padua from 1601,[1] where he discussed the "ship's mast experiment" (see Galileo's ship) with Galileo Galilei.[4] [5] This meeting was before 1606.[3]

Eudaemon-Joannis took a deathbed statement from Bellarmine in 1621.[6] He became rector of the Greek College, Rome in 1622.[1] He was theologian and advisor to Cardinal Francesco Barberini who went on a mission as legate to Paris in 1624/5. An unpopular insistence on the formalities was attributed to him, at a time of tension between the Jesuits and the French Catholic Church.[7] He died in Rome, on 24 December 1625.[3]

Works

He defended Robert Bellarmine, in particular, against English attacks over the allegiance oath of James I. One work was directed against Edward Coke, continuing a defence of Henry Garnet.[8] The pamphlet war drew in Isaac Casaubon, and Eudaemon-Joannis was attacked by name by John Prideaux.[9]

Eudaemon-Joannis was sometimes considered to be a pseudonym in this debate, for example for Scioppius;[10] or for the French Jesuit Jean L'Heureux, something repeated in the Criminal Trials of David Jardine in the 19th century.[11] [12] [13] A 1625 work, the Admonitio attacking Louis XIII, that appeared under the pseudonym G.G.R., has been attributed both to Eudaemon-Joannis and to Jacob Keller.[14] Cardinal Richelieu believed Eudaemon-Joannis to be the author; Carolus Scribani was another suspect, and François Garasse was questioned, as part of the struggle of Gallicanism against the Jesuits.[15]

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Notes and References

  1. Charles E. O'Neill, Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús: biográfico-temático p. 1343; Google Books.
  2. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-eudaemon,%20johannes%20andreas$called%20cydonius$1560%201625 WorldCat page
  3. [Stillman Drake]
  4. Mordechai Feingold (editor), Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters (2003), p. 107; Google Books.
  5. John W. O'Malley (editor), The Jesuits II: cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773, Volume 2 (2006), p. 326; Google Books.
  6. Rivka Feldhay, Galileo and the Church: political inquisition or critical dialogue? (1995), p. 44; Google Books.
  7. Anthony D. Wright, The Divisions of French Catholicism, 1629-1645: The Parting of the Ways (2011), p. 146; Google Books.
  8. W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (2000), p. 102.
  9. Castigatio cujusdam Circulatoris, qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon-Johannem Cydonium e Societate Jesu seipsum nuncupat . . . Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam J. Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducæum, Oxford, 1614. Prideaux, John (1578-1650).
  10. https://archive.org/stream/deutschespseudon00holzuoft#page/82/mode/2up Deutsches Pseudonymen-Lexikon (1906)
  11. https://archive.org/stream/lexiconpseudonym00welluoft#page/180/mode/2up Lexicon pseudonymorum (1886)
  12. Garnet, Henry . 11 . 470.
  13. [David Jardine (barrister)|David Jardine]
  14. Joseph Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle (1815), p. 462; Google Books.
  15. [Ludwig Pastor]
  16. [Charles Howard McIlwain]
  17. [:de:Die Offenbarung Johannis/Die englischen Kommentatoren]
  18. https://archive.org/stream/biographieuniver67michuoft#page/78/mode/2up Biographie universelle (Supplement), article on Hérauld.
  19. Jean Baptiste Joseph Boulliot, Biographie ardennaise Volume 2 (1830), p. 40; Google Books.

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