Jean Roberti
{{short description|Luxembourgish Jesuit (1569–1651)}}
Jean Roberti (also Johannes) (1569 – 14 February 1651){{cite book|author=Joseph Timothy Haydn|title=Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_RJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA473|year=1870|publisher=Moxon|pages=473}} was a Luxembourgish Jesuit who became known for his part in a medical and scientific controversy. He was also a theological writer.
Life
He was born in Saint-Hubert and studied in Jesuit colleges at Liège and Cologne. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1592, held teaching posts, and was awarded a D.D. at Mainz. He became rector of the college at Paderborn, and died at Namur.John Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Part 2 (2002 edition), p. 281; [https://books.google.com/books?id=nobD3FfQEKQC&pg=PA281 Google Books]. Remacle Roberti (Remaclus Robertius), an official and adviser in the Spanish Netherlands, was his brother.Gilbert Tournoy, Journal of Neo-Latin Studies (2000), p. 382; [https://books.google.com/books?id=aXizLdV6ueUC&pg=PA382 Google Books].[https://archive.today/20120712015605/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_2_38/ai_n29057241/pg_4/ 16th century AD] by Mark A. Waddell in: Canadian Journal of History, August, 2003
Works
In 1609 Roberti wrote a reply, his Brevis anatome, to a 1608 work of Rudolph Goclenius on medical astrology from a Paracelsian perspective, that had mentioned a weapon salve (a type of sympathetic magic). Roberti objected to the efficacy of the weapon salve being attributed to purely natural causes. He called the explanation of Goclenius necromantic, and a confusion of natural magic with other kinds. Goclenius replied by listing 45 kinds of "evil magic", and 24 effects that had been achieved by a magus, and could not be explained by natural causes. A pamphlet war continued; in 1621 Goclenius died, but Johannes Baptista van Helmont then published the same year his De magnetica vulnerum curatione, a severe attack on Roberti as well as critical of Goclenius who (in his opinion) had a simplistic view. The attacks of Roberti had some effects: van Helmont went through an examination by the Inquisition, and some sideblows against the Rosicrucians he made in 1618 were picked up in 1623 by Marin Mersenne and Jean Boucher.Waddell, Mark A. 2003. “The Perversion of Nature: Johannes Baptista van Helmont, the Society of Jesus, and the Magnetic Cure of Wounds.” Canadian Journal of History, 38(2): 179-197; [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+perversion+of+nature%3A+Johannes+Baptista+Van+Helmont,+the+Society...-a0112585797 online text].Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy (1977), p. 303.Lynn Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, Part 12 (2003 edition), p. 283; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sr923sVWH_QC&pg=PA283 Google Books].Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (2001), pp. 276–8; [https://books.google.com/books?id=CMuJGpztRFMC&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276 Google Books].
Mysticae Ezechielis quadrigae was a work on the four Gospels. Roberti edited the Flores epytaphii sanctorum of Theofried of Epternach, Legend of St. Hubert, and other works of hagiography.Irena Dorota Backus, The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West: from the Carolingians to the Maurists, Volume 1 (1996), p. 906 note 50; [https://books.google.com/books?id=vPC8m0_cz5wC&pg=PA906 Google Books].
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External links
- [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90-630142 WorldCat page]
- [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Roberti%2C%20Johannes%2C%201569-1651 Online Books page]
- {{in lang|de}} [http://www.bbkl.de/r/roberti_j.shtml BBKL page]
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