Diemut von Wessobrunn
Diemut von Wessobrunn (* around 1060 in Bavaria ; † March 30th around 1130 in Wessobrunn ) was an consecrated maiden , reclus and book illustrator .
From 1080 to 1130 Diemut von Wessobrunn lived in isolation and with great privation in a small chamber on the church wall of the Benedictine Abbey of Wessobrunn , where she copied valuable old writings in addition to prayer. It is assumed that during this time she also maintained a lively correspondence with the nun Herluka von Bernried . Of the scriptures, however, only third-party deliveries are known.
Diemut von Wessobrunn is perhaps the most important German illuminator of the High Middle Ages . She had a very beautiful handwriting in which a few manuscripts still exist. The codices obtained are kept in the Bavarian State Library.
Her feast day is March 30th; the exact year of death is not known. Her bones were exhumed and reburied at the beginning of the 18th century. She is sometimes listed as blessed , but has never been canonized.
literature
- Johanna Autenrieth: Diemut (blessed). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 648 ( digitized version ).
- Robert Bertol: Diemut von Wessobrunn. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 265-267.
- Georg Westermayer : Diemut . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 129 f.
- Coelestin Leuthner: History of the Wessobrunn Monastery. With references to the general and special history of Bavaria . German translation from the Latin original from 1753. Wessofontanum, Wessobrunn 2001
- Joseph von Hefner: About the nun Diemud von Wessobrunn and her literary work , In: Oberbayerisches Archiv , Volume 1, Munich 1839, pp. 355–373 [1]
- Alison I. Beach: Women as scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria , Cambridge University Press, 2004
Web links
- Diemut von Wessobrunn in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- Hagiography of Diemuth on Heiligenlexikon.de
- Hagiography of the Diemudis on Heiligenlegende.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diemut von Wessobrunn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Diemuth; Diemud; Diemod; Diemudus; Diemudis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic nun, recluse and book illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1060 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30 at 1130 |
| Place of death | Wessobrunn , Bavaria |