Ekkehard I. (St. Gallen)
Ekkehard I. (* 910 in Thurgau ; † January 14, 973 in St. Gallen ) was a monk and dean of the St. Gallen monastery .
Ekkehard emerged as the author of sacred hymns and sequences . He is considered to be the author of the Waltharilied, written around 930 and revised by Ekkehard IV in the 11th century . The heroic epic written in Latin hexameters , which celebrates the flight of Walther from Aquitaine with his lover Hildegunde from the Hunnenland, is the only surviving literary version of a local hero legend before the 12th century , along with the Hildebrand's song . It was handed down in ten manuscripts and published for the first time by Jakob Grimm in 1838 . His nephew was Ekkehard II.
literature
- Franz Brunhölzl: Ekkehart I. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 432 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Christoph Eggenberger: Ekkehard I. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Rosemarie Katscher: Waltharius. Poetry and poet. Dissertation, Leipzig 1958
- Samuel Singer : The medieval literature of German Switzerland. Frauenfeld 1930
Web links
- Ekkeardus I in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Text of the Walthari song
- Literature by and about Ekkehard I. in the catalog of the German National Library
- Digitized manuscripts in Swiss libraries ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Ekkehard I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dean of the Abbey of St. Gallen; early medieval author of sacred hymns, sequences and a heroic epic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thurgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 973 |
| Place of death | St. Gallen |