His other works include _Institutiones symbolicae_ (1812; 3rd ed.,
1830), _Geschichte der deutschen Reformation_ (1816; 2nd ed.,
1831-1834); _Die Reformation, ihre Entstehung und Verbreitung in
Deutschland_ (1846; 2nd ed., 1858), and the posthumous _Theol.
Vorlesungen_ (1847-1849).
See F. Lichtenberger, _History of German Theology_ (1889); A. Weber,
_Le Système dogmatique de Marheineke_ (1857); and cf. O. Pfleiderer,
_Development of Theology in Germany_ (1890).
MARIANA, JUAN DE (1536-1624), Spanish historian, was born at Talavera.
He studied at the university of Alcalá, and was admitted at the age of
seventeen into the Society of Jesus. In 1561 he went to teach theology
in Rome, reckoning among his pupils Robert Bellarmine, afterwards
cardinal; then passed into Sicily; and in 1569 he was sent to Paris,
where his expositions of the writings of Thomas Aquinas attracted large
audiences. In 1574, owing to ill health, he obtained permission to
return to Spain; the rest of his life being passed at the Jesuits' house
in Toledo in vigorous literary activity. He died at Madrid, on the 17th
of February 1624.
Mariana's great work, _Historiae de rebus Hispaniae_, first appeared
in twenty books at Toledo in 1592; ten books were subsequently added
(1605), bringing the work down to the accession of Charles V. in 1519,
and in a still later abstract of events the author completed it to the
accession of Philip IV. in 1621. It was so well received that Mariana
was induced to translate it into Spanish (the first part in 1601;
completed, 1609; Eng. trans., by J. Stevens, 1699). Mariana's
_Historiae_, though in many parts uncritical, is justly esteemed for
its research, accuracy, sagacity and style. Of his other works the
most interesting is the treatise _De rege et regis institutione_
(Toledo, 1598). In its sixth chapter the question whether it is lawful
to overthrow a tyrant is freely discussed and answered in the
affirmative, a circumstance which brought much odium upon the Jesuits,
especially after the assassination of Henry IV. of France, in 1610. A
volume entitled _Tractatus VII. theologici et historici_ (published by
Mariana at Cologne, in 1609, containing in particular a tract, "_De
morte et immortalitate_," and another, _"De mutatione monetae"_) was
put upon the index expurgatorius, and led to the confinement of its
author by the Inquisition. During his confinement there was found
among his papers a criticism upon the Jesuits, which was printed after
his death as _Discursus de erroribus qui in forma gubernationis
societatis Jesu occurrunt_ (Bordeaux, 1625), and was reprinted by
order of Charles III. when he banished the Jesuits from Spain.
See L. von Ranke, _Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber_ (Leipzig,
1874), and Cirot, _Études sur les historiographes espagnols_;
_Mariana, historien_ (Bordeaux, 1905).
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