Cornelius Sneek

Cornelius Sneek (1455–1534)^[1] was a 15th–16th century Dominican priest and a member of the Congregation of Holland.^[2]

He was a student of Alanus de Rupe and wrote one of the early works on the rosary.^[3] Sneek taught the Summa Theologica at Rostock.^[4]

References

1. Denifle, Heinrich, Luther and Lutherdom from original sources, p. 121, retrieved 23 May 2010, as the Dominican Cornelius Sneek wrote, 1532
2. Stories of the rose: the making of the rosary in the Middle Ages by Anne Winston-Allen 1997 ISBN page 176
3. McNicholas, John. "Alanus de Rupe." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 5 May 2021 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. Mulchahey, Marian Michèle and Mulchahey, Michele. "First the Bow is Bent in Study-- ": Dominican Education Before 1350, PIMS, 1998, p. 166, note 111ISBN 9780888441324

Literature

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause (1892), "Snêken, Cornelius van", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 34, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 500–502
• Gerhard Schlegel: Sneek, Cornelius Henrici von, in: Sabine Pettke (Hg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Mecklenburg. Vol. 2, Rostock: Schmidt-Römhild 1999 (publication of the Historic Commission for Mecklenburg) ISBN 3-7950-3711-5, pp. 238–242
• Grewolls, Grete (2011). Wer war wer in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Das Personenlexikon (in German). Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag. p. 9485. ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6.