Adso from Montier-en-Der

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Adso (* 910 or 915 in the Jura in Hochburgund ; † 992 ), also Azo or Adson , was a medieval theologian and scholar .

Adso came from a noble family; he was a Benedictine oblate and was appointed head of the school at the monastery of St-Èvre in Toul in 934 by Bishop Gauzlin of Toul , and in the following year in the abbey of Montier-en-Der , after which he later got his name affix (Latin Adso Dervensis ). In 968 he became abbot there . From 987 to 989 he was abbot of Saint-Bénigne Abbey in Dijon for two years . In 992 Adso died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land .

Adso experiences importance above all in his capacity as a well-read author of reports of saints and other religious writings, but especially through De ortu et tempore Antichristi ("Origin and Time of the Antichrist"), his writing about the arrival, which was commissioned by the king's wife Gerberga in 949/954 of the Antichrist , in which he summarizes the eschatological expectation of the apocalyptic peace emperor for the first time.

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Adso Hemericus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 42.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  • Johannes Heil : Adso von Montier-en-Der , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 3
  • Robert Konrad: De ortu et tempore Antichristi. Antichrist conceptions and historical picture of the abbot Adso von Montier-en-Der , (= Munich historical studies. Department of Medieval History; Volume 1), Kallmünz 1964
  • Hans-Peter Kursawa: Antichrist saga, end of the world and Last Judgment in medieval German poetry; Analysis of the end times expectations with Ms. Ava up to the Parousia poem Heinrich von Neustadt against the horizon of medieval apocalyptic , (also Cologne, Univ., Philos. Fac., Diss. V. 1975), 1976
  • Karl F. Werner: The high medieval empire in the political consciousness of France (10th-12th centuries) , in: Historische Zeitschrift 200/1965, page 1ff.
  • Karl F. Werner: Adso . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 169 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl F. Werner: Adso . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 169 f.
  2. ^ Latin text edition by: Ernst Sackur: Sibyllinische Texte und Forschungen . Hall 1898, 97–113
personal data
SURNAME Adso from Montier-en-Der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Azo; Adson; Adso Dervensis; Adso Hemericus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 910 or 915
PLACE OF BIRTH law
DATE OF DEATH 992