Gerhoch von Reichersberg
Gerhoch von Reichersberg (* 1092/1093 in Polling ; † June 27, 1169 in Reichersberg ) was a Bavarian church reformer, theologian and regular canon.
Life
The status of Gerhoch's family is unclear, but he and five brothers known by name received adequate training to enter the ministry. Gerhoch studied at the cathedral school in Hildesheim and with this training was able to become cathedral scholaster in Augsburg around 1117 . After an apparently not sinless life in Augsburg, he fled to the Rottenbuch monastery in 1120 . From then on he was a staunch advocate of the regular canon way of life .
From 1126 to 1132 he stayed under the protection of Bishop Conrad I of Regensburg in his cathedral city and in Cham . However, with his uncompromising position on questions of church reform and the priestly way of life , he drew the reluctance of the Regensburg clergy .
On the mediation of Konrad, he was appointed provost of the Reichersberg am Inn monastery by Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg in 1132 . From here he continued his journalistic struggle for church reform with a large number of writings. Because he represented a strictly papal position, he had to endure before his death that Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1167 via its pin imperial ban imposed and it was burned as a result.
In his works he fought against the modern French theology of scholasticism and drew an increasingly pessimistic picture of the Church and the successes of the Antichrist . Rupert von Deutz and Hildegard von Bingen are among his sources .
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : GERHOH von Reichersberg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 223-224.
- Peter Classen : Gerhoch von Reichersberg. A biography. With an appendix about the sources, their handwritten storage and their chronology. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1960.
- Peter Classen: Gerhoch von Reichersberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 288 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Erich Meuthen : Gerho (c) h von Reichersberg . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , Sp. 1320-1322.
- Karl Rehberger : The foundation of the Reichersberg monastery and Provost Gerhoch . In: Land Oberösterreich (Ed.): 900 years of Reichersberg Abbey. Augustinian Canons between Passau and Salzburg . Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag , Linz 1984, DNB 210505575 , p. 81-91 .
- Konrad Sturmhoefel : The historical content of Gerhohs von Reichersberg I. Book about the research of the Antichrist. A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1887. (Treatise on the annual report of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1887/88)
- Konrad Sturmhoefel: Gerhoh von Reichersberg. About the moral conditions of the contemporary clergy. A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1888. (also dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1988).
- Wilhelm Wattenbach: Gerhoh von Reichersberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 783 f.
See also
Web links
- Gerhochus Reicherspergensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerhoch von Reichersberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian church reformer, theologian and regular canon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1092 or 1093 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Polling |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1169 |
| Place of death | Reichersberg |