Ælfric Grammaticus

Ælfric (* 955 ; † 1020 ) with the nickname Grammaticus was one of the most important scholars of Anglo-Saxon monasticism in the early Middle Ages.

Ælfric grew up in the monastery of Winton under Abbot Ethelwold and became a monk of the Abingdon Benedictine Abbey around 971 . He was sent by Bishop Aelfnah of Winchester in 987 to instruct the monks at Cornel Abbey . In 1005 Ælfric became abbot of Eynsham . In 1020 (after Wilcox-Ælfric's prefaces : 1010) Ælfric died at the age of 65. Since he was considered one of the promoters of Anglo-Saxon literature in the 19th century, the Aelfric Society was founded in his honor in 1842 .

Works

• Exameron Anglice or The old English Hexameron. Ed. with an introd., a collation of all the manuscripts, a modern English transl., parallel passages from the other works of Aelfric and notes on the sources by SJ Crawford. 2., unchanged. Ed., Reprograph. Reprint d. 1st edition Hamburg 1921, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1968

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Aelfrik. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 44-45.
• Bernhard Fehr (Ed.): Aelfrics Pastoral Letters in Old English and Latin . Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society 1966.
• Helmut Gneuss : Aelfric von Eynsham and his time . Presented on November 3, 2000. Munich: Beck 2002 (session reports / Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class; year 2002, no. 1) ISBN 3-7696-1619-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Ælfric Grammaticus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Julius Zupitza : Ælfrics grammar and glossary - at Project Gutenberg