Henry the Glîchezære

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Page from the Heidelberg fairy collection . Manuscript, 14th century; Heidelberg, Cpg 341, 177r

Heinrich der Glîchezære was a probably Alsatian author of the 12th century, from whom Reinhart Fuchs , the first animal poem in the German language, comes from. The nickname “der Gleißner” (= deceiver, hypocrite) was mistakenly transferred from the fox to the poet. The poet's patrons were possibly the Counts of Dagsburg or the Zähringer .

Nothing is known about Heinrich's status, but what is striking is his profound legal knowledge, which can be found in Reinhart Fuchs and which make the work an important source of German legal history .

Heinrich's Middle High German epic poem Reinhart Fuchs has been handed down in three manuscripts:

  • the Kassel fragments with the Sigle S (after Jacob Grimm's "Sendschreiben" to Karl Lachmann), 8 o Ms. poet. germ. et rom. 1 in the Kassel Murhard library , dated to the beginning of the 13th century, represent the oldest witnesses dar;
  • the Heidelberger Märensammlung (Sigle P or H ), Cpg 341 of the Heidelberg University Library , dates from around 1320 to 1330, Reinhart Fuchs is entered on columns 167va-181vb;
  • the Kalocsa manuscript ( K ), since 1949 under the signature cod. Bodmer 72 in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana , Cologny-Génève, is about the same age as P; Heinrich's work is here on columns 162v-177v.

The clearly socially critical ( anti-Taufer ) work was probably created after 1192 based on the old French novel de Renart , it was also called "Isengrîmes nôt" , parodying the title of the Nibelungenlied . It is the only German-language animal pos from this time.

The Reineke-Fuchs fabric was later taken up in the popular book Reynke de vos and also by Goethe .

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SURNAME Henry the Glîchezære
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich the Gleißner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of the only Middle High German animal pos'
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 12th century or 13th century