Dietrich von Hopfgarten

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Dietrich von Hopfgarten was a medieval poet who probably lived in Thuringia (he probably named himself after Hopfgarten near Weimar ). His only known work is a strophic revision (in the Bernese tone , stanzas with twelve verses each) of the story Wigalois des Wirnt von Grafenberg, probably composed around 1220 .

The remnant of a manuscript from 1455 was discovered in 2006 by the Jena Germanist Christoph Fasbender in the library of the Erfurt Evangelical Augustinian Monastery ( library of the Evangelical Ministry in the Augustinian Monastery of Erfurt ). Only an outer double page of the last layer of the manuscript has survived, the vast majority of the copy and thus the text (estimated around 10,000 verses) has been lost. The text fragment contains an aventiure of the knight Wigelis , who comes to the court of King Arthur and there receives the order to liberate a subjugated country.

The manuscript will be examined at the Institute for German Literature Studies at the University of Jena .

literature

  • Christoph Fasbender: The "Wigelis" Dietrich von Hopfgarten and the narrative literature of the late Middle Ages in Central Germany. With a first edition of the Erfurt fragment , S. Hirzel Verlag 2010

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