Anselm von Havelberg

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Anselm von Havelberg (* around 1099; † August 12, 1158 near Milan ) was a Premonstratensian - canon , Catholic bishop, imperial politician and theological scholar.

Life

Anselm von Havelberg, presumably from the area of Liège or Lorraine or Italy, studied at the cathedral school in Laon in northern France , among others with the Benedictine Anselm von Canterbury - one of the most famous theologians and philosophers of the Middle Ages and founder of scholasticism and saints ( 1494) and Doctor of the Church (1720). Through the Abbey of Prémontré , the motherhouse of the Premonstratensian Order , and the establishment of the Premonstratensian Monastery of St. Martin in Laon, he became a pupil of Norbert von Xanten and finally a Premonstratensian canon. Anselm had been a close friend of Wibald von Stablo's early childhood and later a close political companion .

In 1129 Anselm was appointed Bishop of Havelberg and consecrated by Norbert von Xanten, then Bishop of Magdeburg. After the death of Norbert von Xanten in 1134, Anselm took over his diplomatic duties. He served three Roman-German heads of the empire ( Lothar III. , Konrad III. , Who was the first monarch of the empire, not the imperial crown, and Friedrich I. Barbarossa ) as a diplomat . In 1144 he founded the Premonstratensian Monastery of Jerichow . From Konrad he received a letter of protection for his diocese of Havelberg , which had been partially depopulated by the Wendensturm . Thus colonists could come from other areas who were exempt from taxes and services. 1147 he took as papal legate from Pope Eugene III. participated in the crusade against the Wende . In 1150 he founded the Premonstratensian monastery at Havelberg Cathedral and elevated the collegiate chapter to the cathedral chapter of the Havelberg diocese .

On behalf of Emperor Lothar, he stayed at the Byzantine court in Constantinople in 1135/1136 to conduct alliance negotiations. At the suggestion of the Byzantine emperor, he disputed with Archbishop Nicetas of Nicomedia and Basil of Achrida , Archbishop of Thessaloniki, about the dogmatic differences between Roman and Greek teaching. He reported on this in the Latin-written transcripts Anticimenon (also called Dialogi or Dialogorum libri tres ) with Volume I. Development of Faith in the Old and New Testament and in the Church as well as Volume II. And III. Dogmatic doctrinal contradictions between the Roman and the Greek Church ; the work is considered to be the main font of Anselm.

After Frederick I ascended the throne in 1152 as Roman-German king , he became his envoy to Rome, where he made an important contribution to the conclusion of the Treaty of Constance between Pope Eugene III in 1153 . and King Friedrich I for his conditions for an imperial coronation as Emperor of the Roman-German Empire . He was named Archbishop and Exarch of Ravenna in 1155 as a thank you by Frederick I and received the archbishop's pallium from the hand of Pope Hadrian IV on June 18, 1155, the day of Frederick I Barbarossa's coronation as emperor .

He was a participant in Frederick I's second Italian campaign and died in an army camp during the siege of Milan in 1158 . He was buried in the Cathedral of Ravenna. The coffin script is Anselmus, servus servorum Dei, divina gratia sanctae Ravennatis Ecclesiae Archiepiscopus et eiusdem civitatis Exarchus.

literature

  • AF Riedel: News about Bishop Anselm von Havelberg, envoy of the German Emperors Lothar and Friedrich I at the Imperial Court of Constantinople , later Archbishop and Exarch of Ravenna . In: General Archive for the History of the Prussian State . Volume 8, Berlin Posen Bromberg 1832, pp. 97-136 ( full text ) and pp. 225-267 ( full text ).
  • Hans Prutz :  Anselm, Bishop of Havelberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 478 f.
  • Hans Lauerer : The theological views of Bishop Anselm von Havelberg died. 1158: depicted on the basis of the critically viewed writings , Erlangen: Junge & Sohn 1911.
  • Martin Grabmann :  Anselm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 309 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Braun , Johann Wilhelm: Studies on the transmission of the works of Anselm von Havelberg. I: The tradition of the anticimenon. In: German archive for research into the Middle Ages called the Monumenta Germaniae Historica 28 (1972) pp. 133-209.
  • Braun , Johann Wilhelm: Anselm von Havelberg. In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. 2nd ed. Volume 1 (1978) Col. 384-391.
  • Johann W. Braun: A. von Havelberg . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 678 f.
  • Lees , Jay T .: Anselm of Havelberg's 'Banishment' to Havelberg. In: Analecta Praemonstratensia 63 (1986) 5-18.
  • Berschin , Walter: "Anselm von Havelberg and the beginnings of a theology of history in the high Middle Ages", literary studies Jb. NF 29, 1988, p. 225-232.
  • Lees , Jay T .: "Alii nostrum ...". Bishop Anselms von Havelberg description of life in Havelberg. In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History 61 (1997) pp. 89–98.
  • Lees , Jay T .: Anselm of Havelberg. Deeds into words in the twelfth century (Studies in the history of Christian thought 79). Leiden, Cologne: Brill 1998.
  • Sebastian Sigler : Anselm von Havelberg: Contributions to the image of a politician, theologian and royal envoy in the 12th century. Aachen: Shaker 2005 ISBN 3-8322-3916-2
  • Sieben , Hermann Josef [Hrsg.]: Anticimenon: "About the one church from Abel to the last chosen one and from east to west" / Anselm von Havelberg. Introduced, trans. and commented by Hermann Josef Sieben . Münster - Aschendorff - 2010 (Archa verbi: Subsidia; 7)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Killy, Dietrich von Engelhardt, Rudolf Vierhaus: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 1995, p. 147
  2. ↑ a b c d e Fr. Joachim: A diplomat for the unity of the church. Anselm von Havelberg (1099–1158) - Premonstratensian, bishop and politician !! In: Roggenburg Abbey. Message to our friends and sponsors, July 2016 edition, p. 12
  3. ^ Johann Janssen: Wibald von Stablo and Corvey (1098-1158) abbot, statesman and scholar , 1854, p. 12
  4. ↑ Departure after August 10, 1135, probably from Merseburg: RI IV, 1.1 n. 453, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/1135-08-10_1_0_4_1_1_453_453 ( Accessed January 28, 2019).
  5. ↑ Return to Goslar on June 29, 1136: RI IV, 1.1 n. 487, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/1136-06-29_1_0_4_1_1_487_487 (accessed on January 28, 2019).
  6. ↑ Christian Friedrich Jllgen (Ed.), Christian Wilhelm Spieker: Journal for historical theology , Leipzig 1840, p. 147
predecessor Office successor
Gumbert Bishop of Havelberg
1126–1155 		Walo
Moses by Vercelli Archbishop of Ravenna
1155–1158 		Wido by Biandrate
personal data
SURNAME Anselm von Havelberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic religious, bishop, church politician and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH around 1099
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1158
Place of death near Milan