Matthew Rader (also Matthäus, or Mathaeus) (1561 – 22 December 1634) was a

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and historian.

Life

Rader was born in

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. At the age of twenty he entered the

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and subsequently taught the

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for twenty-one years in different Jesuit institutions. He wrote several school dramas, but was particularly known among Catholics and non-Catholics for his scholarly attainments. He died, aged 73, in

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Works

In 1599 he published an improved and expurgated edition of Martial, and in 1628 one of

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. His edition of the Acts of the Eighth Ecumenical Council was incorporated by Philippe L'Abbe and

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in their collection of the Acts of councils; that of the works of St.

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, published in 1614, was reprinted by

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in his ''

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'' (LXXXVIII, 585 sqq.). More important than the publications just mentioned were his now very rare works: ''Bavaria Sancta'' (Munich, 1615-1627), and ''Bavaria Pia'' (Munich, 1628). Both were reprinted in 1704 in Dillingen and

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, and the former was partly published in a German translation by Father Rassler in Straubing in 1840.

Legacy

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rader, Matthew 1561 births 1634 deaths 17th-century Austrian Jesuits 17th-century Austrian historians Italian philologists 16th-century Austrian Jesuits 16th-century Austrian historians Austrian philologists