Nicholas of Cusa: A Sketch for a Biography

Bibliographic Notes on Cusanus Research,1992–2005

161 Bibliographic Notes on cusanus Research, 1992–2005 Hans Gerhard Senger In the following, NC denotes Nicholas of Cusa; NvK denotes Nikolaus von Kues. Editions along with Opera omnia Nicolai de Cusa, the critical edition mentioned previously, a latin-German collection, Nikolaus von Kues, Philosophisch -theologische Werke, ed. K. Bormann, 4 volumes (hamburg, 2002), is drawn from the latin-German study edition, Schriften des NvK in deutscher Übersetzung. J. hopkins published “all of the major treatises and dialogues of Nc, except for De concordantia catholica,” in English translation with notes, commentaries, and introductory studies : 10 volumes, some already in the second or third edition, all by the arthur J. Banning Press (Minneapolis, 1981–2000). Bibliographies in Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: A Guide to a Renaissance Man (see “Recent introductions to cusanus” following), 409–57, the bibliography compiled by T. M. izbicki and K. s. Breighner “attempts to list all published literature in English on Nc from Tudor times to the end of 2002.” h. G. senger offers a report on research in the last fifteen years, “cusanus literatur der Jahre 1986–2001,” Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 69, no. 1 (2002): 225–42; and its continuation, 69, no. 2 (2002): 371–94. h. G. senger, Die Literatur über NvK 1469–2001. Eine Cusanus-Bibliographie will appear soon in the Cusanus-Studien of 162 Bibliographic Notes, 1992–2005 the Philosophical-historical Division of the heidelberg academy of sciences, heidelberg. Biographies The collection Acta Cusana. Quellen zur Lebensgeschichte des NvK, commissioned by the heidelberg academy of sciences, was continued with volume i, facsimile 3a and 3b (January 1451–March 1452), ed. E. Meuthen and h. hallauer, and contains the records of the legation journey, 1451–1452. This is masterfully expanded by the editor E. Meuthen with facsimile 4: Literatur und Register zu Bd. I (hamburg, 1996 and 2000); together, approximately 1,140 pages. important for the Brixen period is h. J. hallauer, Nikolaus von Kues, Bischof von Brixen 1450– 1464, in Gesammelte Aufsätze, ed. E. Meuthen and J. Gelmi, assisted by a. Kaiser, Veröffentlichungen der Hofburg Brixen 1 (Bolzano/Bozen, 2002). M. Watanabe continued his series, begun in 1984, on places associated with cusanus, “Following cusanus’ steps” (since 1995, “Footsteps”), in The American Cusanus Society Newsletter (ACSN) 9, no. 2 (1992)–21, no. 1 (2004). likewise the series begun in 1987: “cusanus’ contemporaries,” in ACSN 9, no. 1 (1992)–20, no. 2 (2003). Each of these is rich in bibliographical references. Journals The periodical Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der CusanusGesellschaft (MFCG) continued with volumes 20–28 (Trier, 1992–2003). some of the themes are: Weisheit und Wissenschaft. Cusanus im Blick auf die Gegenwart, MFCG 20 (1992); NvK. Kirche und res publica Christiana. Konkordanz, Repräsentaz und Konsens, MFCG 21 (1994); Unsterblichkeit und Eschatologie im Denken des NvK, MFCG 23 (1996); NvK als Kanonist und Rechtshistoriker, MFCG 24 (1998); Sein und Sollen. Die Ethik des NvK, MFCG 26 (2000). ACSN 1, no. 1 (october, 1983)–21, no. 2 (2004). semi-annual Bulletin der Japanischen Cusanus-Gesellschaft 1 (1983)–18 (1992). a new publication is Litterae Cusanae. Informationen der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, ed. h. Gestrich and K. Reinhardt, 2, no. 1–4, no. 2 (2002–2004). 163 conference Proceedings The proceedings of the congress Nikolaus Cusanus zwischen Deutschland und Italien. Beiträge eines deutsch-italienischen Symposiums in der Villa Vigoni, 28. März bis 1. April 2001, ed. M. Thurner (Berlin, 2002), provide a good insight into the status of cusanus research at the beginning of the third millennium. This publication appeared on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2001. another is Nikolaus von Kues 1401–2001. Akten des Symposiums in Bernkastel-Kues vom 23. bis 26. Mai 2001, ed. K. Kremer and K. Reinhardt, MFCG 28 (2003). also Coincidência dos opostos e concórdia: Caminhos do pensamento em Nicolau de Cusa. Actas do Congresso Internacional realizado em Coimbra e Salamanca nos dias 5 a 9 de Novembro de 2001, ed. J. M. andré and M. Álvarez Gómez (coimbra, 2002); Coincidencia de Opuestos y Concordia: Los Caminos del Pensamiento en Nicolás de Cusa. Actas del Congreso Internacional celebrado en Coimbra y Salamanca los dias 5 a 9 de Noviembre de 2001 2, ed. M. Álvarez Gómez and J. M. andré (salamanca, 2002). in addition, Nicholas of Cusa: A Medieval Thinker for the Modern Age, papers given at a congress held at Waseda university...