Berchtold von Kremsmünster

Berchtold von Kremsmünster (* before 1270; † 1326 or later), also called Bernardus Noricus , was a historian and chronicler .

The name Bernardus Noricus goes back to Johannes Aventinus . Only more recent research has taken Berchtold, who has testified as a scribe, into consideration as a possible author. He entered the Kremsmünster monastery in the 1880s . He became a deacon in 1290 and has been in the monastery scriptorium since 1292 . He was ordained a priest in 1300 . For some time he worked as a Scholasticus. In 1319 he traveled to Avignon . He died on a February 2nd , probably 1326.

Berchtold created a Urbar , composed a Reimoffizium and worked as a curator working the Collegiate Church of Kremsmünster. But his importance lies primarily in his work as a historian. He wrote the “Historia Cremifanensis” and the “Narratio de ecclesia Cremsmunstrensi”, which are among the “historical sources of Kremsmünster”. The "Historia Cremifanensis" encompasses the history of Kremsmünster from its foundation to Abbot Friedrich von Aich. The “Narratio de ecclesia Cremsmunstrensi” deals in a first section with the foundation of the monastery, in a second the decline and the present. In many other books there are notes, glosses , cross-references, additions, but also longer texts from his hand. At the time, the Kremsmünster library contained around 400 works.

Sources and literature

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• Historia Cremifanensis. Liber de origine et ruina monasterii Cremifanensis. Bernardi Cremifanensis historiae in: Georg Waitz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 25: Gesta saec. XIII .. Hanover 1880, pp. 628–678 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
• Altman Kellner : Profession book of the Kremsmünster Monastery . oOuJ
• Medieval library catalogs of Austria V. Upper Austria . Edited by Herbert Paulhart. Vienna - Cologne - Graz 1971.
• Theodorich Pichler: The Abbey Library . In: Kremsmünster. 1200 years of the Benedictine monastery . o. O. 1976.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bernardus Noricus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 528.
• Willibrod Neumüller OSB:  Bernardus Noricus from Kremsmünster. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 102 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Schnith: Bernhard von Kremsmünster . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 2000.
• Winfried Stelzer: educated contemporaries in the Engelbert area of ​​Admont . In: Johann Tomaschek, Michael Braunsteiner (ed.): Abbot Engelbert von Admont (r. 1297-1327) . Writings on the culture and art history of the Benedictine monastery Admont 6. Admont 1998, pp. 19–35.
• Paul Uiblein: Berchtold von Kremsmünster . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon I. Berlin - New York 1978, pp. 715–718.