David of Augsburg

David von Augsburg (around 1200 ; † November 19, 1272 in Augsburg ) was a mystical writer and one of the earliest teachers of the Franciscan order in Germany. He initially lived in Regensburg and moved to Augsburg in 1243. The teacher and friend of Berthold von Regensburg died in Augsburg in 1272.

In addition to numerous Latin scripts, he also wrote ascetic scripts in German; Franz Pfeiffer published six of them in German Mystics of the 13th Century (Leipzig 1845). Pfeiffer also considers him to be the author of the Schwabenspiegel .

Works (selection)

• MS-B-176 - Gerardus de Zutphania. Bonaventure. Johannes de Schonhavia. Petrus de Alliaco. David de Augusta. Gerlacus Petri. Johannes Cassianus. Bernardus Claraevallensis et alia ( composite manuscript). Eastern Netherlands [15. Century, 3rd quarter] Digitized
• Pia et devota opuscula , Augsburg 1596
• De exterioris et interiosis hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et perfectorum libri tres (instructions for novices and monks; German by Thomas Villanova: Wegweiser z. Christian Perfection, Brixen 1902).
• The seven seasons of prayer (In the original German version, edited by Kurt Ruh, 2 parts, 1965)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  DAVID of Augsburg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1232-1233.
• Cornelius Bohl: Spiritual space: spatial images of language as carriers of spiritual experience; depicted in the work De compositione by David von Augsburg . Werl 2000. ISBN 3-87163-253-8
• Sophronius Clasen :  David of Augsburg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 533 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Gundolf Gieraths: German mystics: a selection of texts ; Texts from David von Augsburg to Johannes Tauler. Zurich; Einsiedeln; Cologne: Benziger, 1977. ISBN 3-545-20508-8
• Dirk Müller: Society and the individual around 1300 in vernacular Franciscan prose. Köln, Univ., Diss., 2003 online resource (bibliography on David von Augsburg pp. 426–430)
• Wilhelm Preger:  David of Augsburg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 782-784.
• Karl Richstätter : The veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the German Middle Ages . Regensburg 1924.
• Claudia Rüegg: David von Augsburg: historical, theological and philosophical difficulties at the beginning of the Franciscan order in Germany . Frankfurt 1989. ISBN 3-261-03939-6
• Kurt Ruh : history of occidental mysticism. Volume II. Women's mysticism and early Franciscan mysticism. Munich 1993, pp. 526-540.
• Dagobert Stöckerl: Brother David von Augsburg: a German mystic from the Franciscan order . (Dissertation Munich), 1914

Web links

• Literature by and about David von Augsburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Augustensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Works by David von Augsburg in the complete catalog of the cradle prints
• Texts of David in the Middle High German text archive of the University of Trier: "Pater Noster" and "Sieben Staffeln des Gebets"
• David of Augsburg in the Augsburg Wiki