Eleazar Horn (ca. 1690 - 1744 )

Eleazar Horn (ca. 1690 - 1744 ) OFM. German friar. Entered the Franciscan Recollects in the Sank Elisabet province of Thüringen. He finished his theological education by 1716. Eight years later, in 1724, he departed for Palestine. Following a short sojourn on Cyprus, he arrived in Jerusalem by October of that year. Between May and August 1725, he was the guardian of the Holy Sepulcre monastery. Then, in January 1726, he became the organist of the Ain Karem community. In 1727, he returned to Jerusalem, where he stayed for more or less a decade, aside from a short stay at Belen in 1731-1732. After another stint at Ain Karem, Eleazea returned for a while to Germany, but he was back in Palestine a few years later. In 1743, he could be found in Gallilea and especially at Nazareth, where he measured and drew medieval monuments. In 1744, while at St. John of Acre, he had a stroke and died on 28 November. Known for his Ichnographiae, locorum et monumentorum veterum Terrae Sanctae , which depicts many old monuments and which itself was partly based on and inspired by the two-volume Historica, theologica et moralis Terrae Sanctae Elucidatio , compied by his fellow Franciscan Franciscus Quaresimi. (Antwerp, 1634-1639). Counter to Quaresimi’s work, Eleazar’s Ichnographiae remained unpublished until the 1902 edition made by Golubovich.

Works

• Ichnographiae, locorum et monumentorum veterum Terrae Sanctae Ichnographiae, locorum et monumentorum veterum Terrae Sanctae , ed. H. Golubovich (Rome: Typis Sallustianis, 1902). This edition was re-issued with an English translation in Jerusalem, 1962.

  1902 Rome

  This edition was re-issued with an English translation in Jerusalem, 1962.

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