Ekkehard IV. (St. Gallen)

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Ekkehard IV of St. Gallen , often also written Ekkehart IV. , (* Around 980; † after 1057 in St. Gallen ) was a scholar, chronicler, poet, translator and glossator who wrote in Middle Latin and Old High German .

Live and act

Ekkehard was a student of Notker Labeo at the St. Gallen monastery school . From 1022 to 1031 he headed the Mainz Cathedral School under Archbishop Aribo , then the St. Gallen Monastery School until his death.

Ekkehard continued the monastery chronicle Casus Sancti Galli founded by Ratpert around the events from around 890 to 972. In addition, he worked as a translator of Ratpert's hymn of praise to St. Gallus into Latin and (in Mainz at the behest of Bishop Aribos) as a formal revision of a Vita Waltharii manufortis by Ekkehard I , which in research is mostly identified with the heroic epic Waltharius , but possibly was more of a lost hagiographic biography. He put together his collection of poems Liber benedictionum around 1030 for school use.

October 21 is recorded as Ekkehard's death day in the St. Gallen Book of the Dead. The year of his death is not recorded, but in any case it cannot be put until after 1057. For in a St. Gallen Orosius manuscript there is a gloss by Ekkehard's hand, which alludes to the death of Pope Victor II , who died that year .

reception

Joseph Victor von Scheffel used the Casus sancti Galli Ekkehard IV as a stimulating source for his famous historical novel Ekkehard. A story from the tenth century. Scheffel's novel, with 285 scientific annotations, first appeared in 1855. Gustav Freytag used Ekkehard's vivid descriptions for his work Pictures from the German Past .

Work editions

  • Johannes Egli (Ed.): The Liber benedictionum Ekkeharts IV. Together with the smaller poems from Codex Sangallensis 393 . (Communications on patriotic history, Volume 31 = New Series 4, Volume 1.) St. Gallen 1909.
  • Hans F. Haefele (Ed.): Ekkehardi IV. Casus Sancti Galli. St. Gallen monastery stories. (Latin-German) (= selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Freiherr vom Stein Memorial Edition, Volume 10). Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-01417-0 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Schmuki: The most delicious history book of the Middle Ages. The St. Gallen monastery stories of Ekkehart IV. St. Gallen Abbey Library, St. Gallen 1995, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Hans F. Haefele: Ekkehards life and work . In: Ekkehardi IV. Casus Sancti Galli. St. Gallen monastery stories. Edited and translated by Hans F. Haefele (= selected sources on German medieval history. Freiherr vom Stein Memorial Edition, Volume 10). Darmstadt 1980, pp. 6-11, here p. 6.
  3. ↑ Peter Ochsenbein: Introduction . In: Karl Schmuki: The most delicious history book of the Middle Ages. The St. Gallen monastery stories of Ekkehart IV. St. Gallen 1995, pp. 7–11, here p. 9.

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personal data
SURNAME Ekkehard IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekkehard IV of St. Gallen; Ekkehart IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latin scholar, chronicler and poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 980
DATE OF DEATH after 1057
Place of death St. Gallen