Alger of Liege

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Alger von Lüttich (also: Algerus von Lüttich , Alger von Cluny , Algerus Magister ; * around 1060 in Liège , † around 1131 in Cluny ) was a canonical writer and author of theological writings. He headed the cathedral school of Sankt Lambert in Liège before joining the monastery of Cluny , with whose abbot Petrus Venerabilis he had a close friendship.

Life

Alger studied at the cathedral school in Liège. Then he was initially a deacon and scholastic at Saint Bartholomew in Liège. Around the year 1100 he was appointed by Bishop Otbert to be his secretary and transferred as a canon to the St. Lambert Cathedral. Alger was in charge of the cathedral school and carried out external correspondence. He declined various offers from other bishops to serve them and remained in his functions in Liege for about 20 years until after the death of Bishop Otbert. In 1121, after the death of Otbert's successor, Bishop Friedrichs, whose secretary was Alger, he went to Cluny and entered the famous Benedictine monastery to spend the last ten years or so of his life as a monk .

Works

Alger wrote a rebuttal against the doctrine of the Eucharist of Berengar of Tours , which was highly appreciated by Peter the Venerable, just as 400 years later by Erasmus of Rotterdam , who in 1530 had printed an edition in Basel:

  • De sacramentis corporis et sanguinis Domini libri tres , published by Erasmus, Basel (Freiburg) 1530, then often, most recently by Jean B. Malou, Löwen 1847 (MPL 180, 439 ff.).

Of importance for the history of canon law is a work by Algers, in which he briefly commented on excerpts from the writings of the church fathers :

  • Tractatus de misericordia et iustitia , (ed.) Edmond Martène, in: Thesaurus novus anecdotorum V , Paris 1717, 1019 ff. (MPL 180, 857).

Other writings of Alger have survived, some of which can be clearly attributed to him, others only presumably. Some things, such as a history of the Church of Liege, were lost.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Alger von Lüttich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 116.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  2. ↑ for further information: see BBKL

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personal data
SURNAME Alger of Liege
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Algerus of Liege; Alger of Cluny; Algerus Magister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of theological writings, head of the cathedral school in Liège and later a Benedictine monk
DATE OF BIRTH around 1060
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH around 1131
Place of death Cluny