Alber from Windberg
Priest Alber was the name of the Bavarian clergyman Alber von Windberg († around 1200 ), who in the 1190s brought the Latin story of the journey of the knight Tundalus (Latin: Visio Tnugdali ) into about 2200 verses in Middle High German .
The work about the knight Tundalus, who experienced hell and heaven, should have an educational effect on the German nobility.
A great deal is known about the circumstances of this processing. Alber was closely connected to the Premonstratensian monastery Windberg (near Straubing ). He names a gentleman or brother Konrad von Windberg , who inspired him to versify (possibly the same Konrad, who was the second abbot of the monastery since 1191).
Remarkably, this example is early Middle High German monastery literature also because the Latin text copy of Windberger owned, worked after the Alber, has been preserved. The precise comparisons made possible by this provide information about the working method and content-related interests of Alber and his presumed audience. The Middle High German text has only survived in a single, significantly younger copy as part of a sacred composite manuscript (today in the Austrian National Library in Vienna : Cod. 2696 , written around 1300).
Individual evidence
literature
- Horst Brunner: An overview of the history of German literature in the Middle Ages . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-009485-2 , p. 98
- Brigitte Pfeil: The "vision of Tnugdalus" Albers von Windberg . Frankfurt / Main 1999. ISBN 3-631-33817-1 .
- Hellmut Rosenfeld: Alber von Windberg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 122 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alber from Windberg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Priest Alber |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Middle High German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1200 |