Albrecht of Halberstadt

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Albrecht von Halberstadt (around 1200 , exact dates unknown) was a Middle High German poet.

Albrecht ( "a sachsen, heats Albrecht, born of Halberstat" ) was probably Scholasticus at the provost of Jechaburg near Sondershausen . It is documented there in 1217 and 1218 . Either in 1190 or 1210 ( "Zwelff hundred jor / And zehene bevorn / Since our Lord was geporn" , v. 84–86), at the instigation of Landgrave Hermann von Thuringia, he began a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in short rhyming verses. The extensive work (over 20,000 verses) was not well received by his contemporaries, and so only five fragments (668 verses in total) of an Oldenburg manuscript from the 2nd half of the 13th century have survived.

A profound revision of the font by the Alsatian Jörg Wickram first appeared in a print from 1545 . In the prologue to the book, Wickram offers a sample of the original work based on a manuscript. Karl Bartsch tried his hand at a reconstruction based on the present fragments in his book "Albrecht von Halberstadt and Ovid in the Middle Ages" (Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1861). After finding a new piece of the Oldenburg manuscript, it became clear that the attempt must be considered a failure.

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