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Seventeenth-century research into the historicity of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

SCHOOCKIUS, Martinus.
Fabula Hamelensis, sive disquisitio historica, qua ostenditur fabulis accenseri debere, quod refertur de infausto exitu puerorum Hamelensium, qui inciderit in annum a Christo nato MCCLXXXII. Praemissa est dissertatio generalis de judicio circa historicas narrationes instituendo: atque in examine fabulae, distincte respondetur D.M. Samuelis Erich libello, qui inscribitur Exodus Hamelensis.

With woodcut printer's device on title.

With woodcut printer's device on title.



Groningen, Frans Bronckhorst, 1659. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 212 pp.

Rare original edition of this interesting, and early, scholarly research into the historicity of old stories, oral traditions and fables in general and the story of the well-known story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (De rattenvanger van Hamelen) and the subsequent exodus and disappearance of all the children from Hamelin, in Germany, which is alleged to have happened in the year 1282. The author also explains his views regarding the fable of the children's exodus, quoting numerous classical and modern historical sources. In part it is also an answer to the book by Samuel Erich, Exodus hamelensis: das ist, Der hämelischen kinder ausgang, which was published in 1655. A second edition of the Fabula appeared in Groningen in 1662.
Martin Schoock (1614-1669), member of a patrician family from Utrecht, was sent to Franeker to study philosophy with Johannes Hachtingius and mathematics with Adrianus Metius, but soon he went to Leyden, where he continued to study philosophy with Burgersdijk and theology with Antonius Walaeus. He was a Gomarist and follower of Voetius and a fervent advocate of Aristotelian philosophy, even lending his name in 1643 to a strong attack on Descartes, of which Descartes at first thought that it was written by Voetius, and which then resulted in an official complaint addressed by Descartes to the Senate of the University of Groningen, where Schoock was professor of logic, ethics and physics from 1641 till 1666; at the end of his life he was appointed professor of history and historian to the Elector of Brandenburg at Frankfurt on the Oder. Schoockius wrote numerous books and papers on a wide variety of subjects, including a treatise on peat or pitch holding sods in 1658. His books, which often included fierce attacks on papacy, were forbidden by Rome in 1700.

Fine copy, with old owner's ms. entry, O.J. Alberda, on first blank, dated 1728.
Van der Aa VI, p. 124-5; Hirsch IV, 273.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anthropology  Fable Books  Folklore  Germany  Middle Ages 

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